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...President invited National Security Adviser BRENT SCOWCROFT to Maine before the crisis. The visit has become a marathon...
...summit, Bush proposed another compromise: NATO would consider nukes "weapons of last resort." Just how much change that represents is unclear. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft says it merely implies using nuclear weapons "later rather than earlier." Thatcher and Mitterrand fought against it nonetheless, and the communique wound up throwing the "last resort" doctrine into the future; it would be adopted only "with the total withdrawal" of Soviet forces stationed in Eastern Europe. That satisfied Thatcher that any change was merely semantic, and she signed. Mitterrand had misgivings even then, but went along for the sake of alliance solidarity...
...lesson of Poindexter is that military men should not head the NSC staff. "They should do a better job of teaching constitutional law at the Naval Academy," he said, noting that Army General Colin Powell successfully held the job after Poindexter and that retired Air Force General Brent Scowcroft has the position now. When the picture of the Iran-contra beast is finally drawn, in all probability it will not be as large or menacing as many thought. Yet the portrait will never be complete. These days in the muted luncheon- table conversations among both prosecutors and defense-team members...
Yeltsin called on Brent Scowcroft at the White House. "What is the objective of your visit?" asked the National Security Adviser. With no more encouragement than that, Yeltsin launched into a hortatory rhapsody about how U.S. business could "rescue" perestroika by building 1 million apartments and an entire service sector for the Soviet economy; he also plugged a joint mission to Mars. He talked virtually nonstop for a full hour...
...Just as Scowcroft's patience was giving out, George Bush stopped by to say hello and, as quickly as possible, goodbye. Asked about Yeltsin later, the President paused, smiled and said he had found him "a jolly fellow...