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...President Aquino's trip to Japan last month, Ramos curtailed restive officers by warning them that any rebellious action would be "bloody and destabilizing." Early last week he acted again, this time averting an apparent coup attempt by preventing Enrile and rebel officers from bypassing the chain of command. By birth and training, Ramos, 58, is a Manila insider. He is the son of Narciso Ramos, a former Foreign Minister, and a cousin of Marcos. The general's younger sister Leticia Ramos Shahani is a Deputy Foreign Minister. Ramos grew up in the town of Lingayen in the northern Ilocos...
...arrival of one more refurbished B-52 bomber at Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth would hardly seem an event to create diplomatic turbulence. But when the aircraft linked up with the Strategic Air Command Seventh Bomb Wing last Friday, it became the 131st B-52 to be equipped with nuclear- tipped cruise missiles -- and that sent the U.S. right through the ceiling of the SALT II agreement. The unratified 1979 arms-control treaty allows the U.S. a total of 1,320 strategic nuclear delivery systems. If the number of bombers carrying cruises passes 130, the U.S. is obliged...
...knew precisely of the money transfer. Poindexter knew vaguely about the transactions, and McFarlane learned something about them while pursuing diplomatic contacts with Iran as a special presidential emissary after he had resigned from the NSC. But neither seems to have told anybody in the Administration's chain of command. Later in the week, Meese added that "one or more consultants" to the Government, whom he would not name or further identify, also appear to have been involved...
Normally, I wouldn't feel such a strong affinity for a man who subverted the chain of command of the American government in order to promote bloodshed in war-torn countries. Usually, I would consider such behavior unworthy of esteem. A bad thing, if you will...
...President in the postwar period." Regan dismisses such sweeping criticisms. But he does bristle at unfavorable comparisons between his White House (and he often sounds as if he believes it is "his" White House) and that managed by his predecessor, James Baker. Regan firmly believes that the pyramid of command he has established is more efficient and less susceptible to discord than the often uneasy troika that Baker formed with Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver...