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Colin Powell's Legend
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Colin Powell's Legend: A Warning -- Gen. Colin Powell's
career as a military bureaucrat often has been viewed through
rose-colored glasses rather than a clear eye. But critics,
including some who served in Vietnam, feel Powell may have
carried the wrong lessons out of the bloody jungles. (6-24-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Lesson's from Vietnam -- Powell's
service in Vietnam distinguished him as a
"water-walker." But what were the hard lessons of war
he learned in the Vietnam jungles? (7-8-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: My Lai -- When American specialist
fourth class Tom Glen accused American soldiers in the Americal
division of routine brutality against Vietnamese civilians, Maj.
Powell undertook the assignment to review Glen's complaints.
Powell's report derided Glen's charges and showed Powell to be
the consummate team player. (7-22-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Pentagon-Man -- The middle years of
Powell's military career were a time for networking and
advancement. Here, Powell learned that a military bureaucrat
succeeds best by sidestepping controversy and keeping quiet when
superiors screw up. (8-5-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Back to the Future -- When Colin
Powell returned to Washington in the early '80s, he returned to
the terrain he knew best--a professional home he often called
"Ground Zero." On the fast track to success, Powell
became deeply entangled in Reagan/Casey war-games. (8-19-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Iran-Contra Amnesia -- In 1984-85,
Colin Powell was the "filter" for information flowing
to Defense Secretary Casper Weinburger. But what kind of
information flowed through the "filter?" (9-2-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Arms to Iran -- Would the disastrous
Iran-contra scandal have happened without Colin Powell's work as
Defense Secretary Casper Weinburger's "filter?"
(9-16-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Saving Reagan -- Just as Colin Powell
played an important behind-the-scenes role in missile shipments
to Iran, he would be equally instrumental in the next phase, the
scandal's cover-up in 1987-88. (9-30-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Panama War -- Going by the
"Powell Doctrine" that "it is better to win than
to loose," Powell shows his stuff in Panama. (10-14-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Arms to Iraq? -- Newly declassified
documents suggest that Powell was a player in the secret U.S.
policy to supply Saddam Hussein with military equipment.
(11-11-96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: Dodging Peace -- Powell played a key
role in ensuring a ground war pitting American troops against an
Iraqi enemy trying to surrender. (11/25/96)
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Colin Powell's Legend: The Media Icon -- Though the media has
unanimously embraced him, Colin Powell's record deserves further
review. (12/9/96)
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