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...that easy to decide on the Man of the Year for 1991. Two major international stories -- the gulf war and the Second Russian Revolution -- dominated the news, and both of them produced a fairly obvious list of candidates: George Bush, Norman Schwarzkopf, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Boris Yeltsin, among others. On the domestic scene, too, individuals like Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas came to mind. But the more we thought about it, the more compelling it seemed to focus on a theme that emerged time and again as major events unfolded this year: the amazing power...
...minute political intelligence for the U.S. government. President Bush is known to have said to other world leaders, "I learn more from CNN than I do from the CIA." That is apparently not a joke. Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney turned to CNN to find out what was happening in diplomacy or combat because its speed and accuracy in newsgathering outstripped the work of the National Military Intelligence Center and the CIA. Those agencies remain geared to cycling paperwork up through chains of command at a pace often too slow during a fast-breaking...
Even then, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney judges "remote" the likelihood of intercontinental ballistic missiles coming under the thumb of anyone who would fire them at the U.S. The real menace, most experts believe, is a breakdown of the command structure that would put the easily mobile tactical weapons into dangerous hands. These nukes -- artillery shells, warheads on short-range missiles, nuclear mines -- are much easier to seize than ICBMs stored in underground silos. Already the southern republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan have "nationalized" all military property on their soil, prompting Moscow to announce that the army would shoot...
...ROTC, sans student protest. They issued an ultimatum: If the military did not end its discriminatory practices within two years, Harvard would cut all ties to ROTC. Then-president Derek C. Bok and thendean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney expressing the same sentiment...
...proposal to relax even long-range nuclear posture is appropriate. Reduced cost and reduced probability of accident should certainly follow from reduced superpower tension. American bombers, which Defense Secretary Dick Cheney says can be made ready within one day, do not need to be on round-the-clock alert anymore...