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When Ford shuffled his Cabinet, he named a promising but largely unknown 34- year-old as the new White House chief of staff: Dick Cheney. After Ford lost the 1976 election, Cheney decided to run for Congress in his home state of Wyoming. Ford's political instincts stirred again. "I went right out to campaign for him," he says. Cheney won and became a respected and powerful Congressman -- until Bush made him Secretary of Defense...
...while, the victorious allies watched from the sidelines. Their paralysis was in part a political necessity. U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney noted that the coalition's U.N. mandate for action did not cover moving "inside Iraq ((to)) deal with their internal problems...
...even if the allies had had the freedom to maneuver, they lacked the will. "I'm not sure," said Cheney, "whose side you'd want to be on." Not the Shi'ite mullahs, certainly. The West has no interest in seeing Iran II in Iraq; nor do the gulf states, which have their own problems with Shi'ite restiveness. Supporting the Kurds would create a stewpot of problems as well. Turkey, an important constituent in the anti-Saddam team and a NATO member, fears that any gains made by Iraq's Kurds would embolden Turkey's own 8 million-member...
Just before Operation Desert Storm began, the cold war formally ended and , the Pentagon was about to take some cuts. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney plans to trim the Army 31% over the next five years, the Navy 13%, the Air Force 28% and the Marines 14%. Taken together, those projected reductions will lop off 500,000 men and women -- or about the size of the force in the gulf -- from the 2.1 million now in uniform...
...Everyone with a favorite weapons program, whether a member of Congress or a general, points to the gulf war as justification. Last week, for example, Democratic and Republican representatives from New York and Pennsylvania joined forces to order continued production of the F-14 Tomcat, a carrier- based interceptor Cheney says the Navy has in sufficient quantity. Price tag for the congressionally ordered continuation: $987 million...