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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff COLIN POWELL had planned to take a week off at his Washington home. He had scheduled the same thing before the invasion of Panama...
...goes the current wisdom, and it is as false as the leads in Soviet Sources (Atlantic Monthly Press; 264 pages; $19.95). Novelist Robert Cullen, a former Moscow correspondent for Newsweek, jolts the genre into new life with a plausible plot and authentic detail. Stationed in the U.S.S.R., journalist Colin Burke discovers that the nation's leading reformer has suffered a stroke. Hard-liners plan a takeover, and part of the plan is framing the American on trumped-up charges before he can spill his scoop. Meantime, a Soviet actress is also trying to go West. Cullen's chilling portrait...
...preachers, including Jesse Jackson, to the White House. He visited black neighborhoods, churches and colleges, which he has supported for decades. And if Bush has not named a lot of blacks to Government posts, those blacks he has selected have been appointed to prominent jobs. The best example: General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The strategy is working: 56% of blacks say they approve of Bush's performance as President...
Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger brushed aside the suggestion that the lesson of Poindexter is that military men should not head the NSC staff. "They should do a better job of teaching constitutional law at the Naval Academy," he said, noting that Army General Colin Powell successfully held the job after Poindexter and that retired Air Force General Brent Scowcroft has the position now. When the picture of the Iran-contra beast is finally drawn, in all probability it will not be as large or menacing as many thought. Yet the portrait will never be complete. These days...
...Colin F. Boyle...