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Despite his twinkling blue eyes and disarmingly crooked smile, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney possesses a tongue as sharp as his mind. Soon after he took office last year, he publicly scalded a four-star Air Force general for going behind his back to Congress. Military-service chiefs who oppose Cheney on budget cuts earn a solid verbal thump on the wrist. Last week Cheney fired the highly decorated Air Force chief, General Michael Dugan, for "poor judgment at a sensitive time" in speaking indiscreetly on secret and diplomatically touchy issues relating to the gulf crisis. Dugan was the first member...
...that the affair is out in the open. In the past the Saudis insisted on an "over the horizon" policy toward the U.S. -- they wanted protection but preferred that it be invisible. Faced with Saddam's legions, Fahd quickly < changed his mind. Even as U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney flew to Riyadh immediately after the invasion of Kuwait, Fahd conferred with key royals and decided to accept American troops if Cheney made a convincing case. When the Defense Secretary said President Bush was prepared to help defend the kingdom, Fahd replied, "That's what I thought. Come...
...Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell concede, the deployment of U.S. forces to the gulf has been less than flawless. But it will be completed shortly, and a decision to wage war will probably follow. Most if not all of the serious diplomacy of recent weeks has concerned preparedness, not peace. And the latest from the mullahs in Tehran supports the view that the economic embargo, if it could ever squeeze Saddam sufficiently to cause his unilateral withdrawal from Kuwait, would take well over a year to do so -- a period too long to sustain...
...nearly 100,000 U.S. troops -- so far -- on Saudi territory is defined in a memorandum just three pages long. Not only is the document "extremely general," according to those who have read it, but it is being kept secret at the request of the Saudi government. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who negotiated it in Jidda last month, described it as a "sort of" status-of-forces agreement, something that usually takes the form of a treaty...
Meanwhile, President Bok and former Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney requesting that the military reconsider its discriminatory policies. The letter came in response to a Faculty Council resolution last spring making similar demands, threatening to stop accepting ROTC scholarships if the controversial policy is not reversed...