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...dramatic a change that is in the nature of Big Power relationships is now up for discussion by the President and his men. On the waters of Kennebunkport, Bush and his National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, ponder "the new rationality," where facts will not be obliterated by rigid ideology. White House planners are anticipating a reemergence of Christianity in Russia, bringing with it a moral framework that has long been absent from Soviet political life...
...Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He had been drinking during the night and surprised his hosts the next day with his spirited, prankish behavior. His early reputation in the circles of the U.S. foreign policy establishment as a lightweight stemmed from an encounter with National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft on the same trip. Yeltsin seemed at first unaware of who Scowcroft was: he was determined to meet Bush, the Russian insisted. Not surprisingly, "senior Administration official" comments on Yeltsin thereafter were coldly dismissive...
...Russian Parliament Building, Yeltsin ordered his foreign minister to deliver a letter for Bush to the top U.S. diplomat in Moscow. Deputy chief of mission Jim Collins picked up the missive himself and cabled it to Washington. From there, Robert Gates, Deputy National Security Adviser, relayed it to Brent Scowcroft, who read it aboard Air Force One and informed Bush of its contents...
...White House immediately began to retreat from Bush's earlier ambivalent remarks and voice support for Yeltsin. Scowcroft spoke with reporters in midair, criticizing Yanayev and describing the coup as "quite negative." After arriving at the White House, Bush sat in on a meeting of the deputies committee, a group of senior officials who were monitoring the situation and were by then beginning to uncover the plotters' mistakes. Several members of the group had begun to describe the coup as "half-assed...
...Brent Scowcroft, the President's National Security Adviser, likes to cite a military adage: concentrate on your enemy's capabilities, not his intentions, since intentions can change overnight. START is the latest step in a process going back to 1969, the beginning of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), aimed at whittling away the Soviet capability of making war against...