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...member "special review board" to study the role of the NSC in the conduct of foreign policy. Named chairman was John Tower, the former Republican Senator from Texas and more recently a U.S. arms negotiator. The other review-board members are former Senator Edmund Muskie, a Democrat, and Brent Scowcroft, who served as Gerald Ford's National Security Adviser...
...after a test launching, apparently because of a problem in the rocket's fuel system. No one suggested there was a major flaw in the SS-18 program. Nonetheless, U.S. observers emphasized the strategic importance of the missile to the Soviets, citing what former U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft called its silo-busting capabilities...
...there are doubts about reliability," explains former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Paul Warnke, "then any tendency toward first strike on either side is diminished." In a Council on Foreign Relations study released last week, a group of authors, including President Ford's National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and his Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, state that a ban could make "a significant contribution to slowing nuclear proliferation." Proponents also argue that it would be to America's strategic advantage, since the Soviets are behind the U.S. in warhead sophistication. Says Richard Garwin, a nuclear expert with IBM: "Resuming testing...
...large question mark: Will America's slap at Gaddafi deter or stimulate further terrorism? The Administration believes that its response will induce Gaddafi to be cautious. "If people know they are likely to get clobbered if they act up, they are likely to think twice about it," said Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser under Gerald Ford. But Gaddafi was hardly clobbered this time around. He has vowed, and there is no reason to disbelieve him, that he will continue his war against the U.S. in an arena in which the Sixth Fleet cannot sail --that of international terror. Indeed, according...
...Scowcroft commission thought that if both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. built small mobile missiles, neither side would feel tempted to launch (or feel threatened by) a first strike. But the Administration last fall suddenly proposed in Geneva that all mobile missiles be banned. Moscow is developing two types of mobile missiles that the Pentagon fears will add dangerously to Soviet striking power...