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...military questions alone threatened to be an enormously nuanced exercise. Some strategists have already been severely critical of the Administration for failing to hit back at Iran when the reflagged tanker Bridgeton struck a mine last month. "We should have pulverized Farsi Island," fumed Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser. "All this power cringing in the area is a terrible embarrassment...
...Adviser in 1985, he already had such a reputation for reclusiveness that one of the first questions journalists asked him was whether they would ever see him again. "Maybe," replied a smiling Poindexter. In a job that brought world renown to such predecessors as McGeorge Bundy, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Poindexter proceeded to stay nearly invisible for just under a year. He was seen outside the White House so seldom that Washington reporters labeled his rare public appearances "Poindexter sightings...
Gates has a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history and in the 1970s spent nearly six years on loan to the National Security Council staff, where he worked for Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. A career analyst, Gates had no experience in CIA intelligence-gathe ring operations until he became Casey's deputy in April. Although his demeanor is mild, Gates once wrote a blistering critique of the CIA's ill-focused analytical process, and in 1981 Casey picked him to sharpen the agency's information-reporting procedures. The results helped to restore the CIA's reputation after a succession...
...Kissinger's peers, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under President Carter, prepared for his job by writing his 1953 graduate School of Education thesis on "The Permanent Purge and Soviet Totalitarianism...
...Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress last summer, Jaruzelski unveiled a plan for a national "consultative council" to advise the government on economic and social policy. The body is to include leaders of the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church and politically moderate intellectuals. Two weeks ago, Premier Zbigniew Messner took the unprecedented step of withdrawing a piece of economic legislation from parliament for revisions after it had been publicly criticized as a blatant attempt by bureaucrats to undermine proposed economic reforms that Jaruzelski had originally introduced...