General Powell has been involved with just about every arms control treaty since there were arms control treaties.
Secretary Cheney and General Powell are hard at work determining the precise combination of forces that we need.
Arab leaders still tell visitors like General Powell they would like to see a more balanced US role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
General Powell is no isolationist, someone who thinks American troops should be used only in the case of an attack on the American mainland.
General Powell noted that the President has been very, very solid on efforts to combat terrorism and counterterrorism and his overall leadership in foreign policy.
General Powell, former Secretary of State Powell -- call him either one, I guess -- is somebody obviously whose advice the President seeks on a regular basis.
For example, a just-completed investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned General Powell's judgment in agreeing to deny AC-130 gunships to the units sent to Somalia in a vain effort to capture Mohammed Aideed.
This advice is at least every bit as flawed as that given in 1990 by then-General Powell to the previous President Bush to the effect that economic sanctions would compel Saddam Hussein to quit Kuwait.
The White House appears no longer to be pursuing one-time favorite, retired General Colin Powell.
Retired general Colin Powell spoke of the duty to help fulfill the deferred dreams of others.
Washington's elite was represented by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, defence secretary William Cohen and retired general Colin Powell.
The responsibility for Northern Ireland policy in the new US administration is expected to rest with the State Department headed by General Colin Powell.
He appointed a new envoy to negotiate a ceasefire, Anthony Zinni, a former general (like Mr Powell).
They included Margaret McDonagh, who is now the Labour Party's general secretary, and Jonathan Powell, who worked then for the British embassy in Washington and is now Tony Blair's chief of staff.
Well so far David it's not been that bad, but General Musharraf has told Colin Powell that the shorter the duration of the conflict in Afghanistan the better it would be for the country.
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U.S. and Mexican officials have been talking about immigration reform since early this year, discussions that led to the proposal by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Attorney General John Ashcroft to grant residence status to Mexican illegal immigrants.
Or General and then Secretary of State Colin Powell?
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In the closing days of the 1974 general election campaign, Tory MP Enoch Powell encouraged his supporters to vote Labour and so have a choice to withdraw from the Common Market in a planned referendum.
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Mr Jones, a retired marine general who once served as NATO's supreme commander, will be the first former general to serve as national security adviser since Colin Powell did so in the Reagan White House in 1987-88.
While Powell supports long deliberations before taking any action overseas, the retired general will have to move quickly during international crises and adapt to the fast pace that comes with being secretary of state.
But despite calls from Colin Powell, the American secretary of state, for support, so far General Musharraf has not committed himself.
George W. Bush perhaps set the precedent of appointing his chief rival within the Republican party, Colin Powell, to secretary of state as a way to secure the shrewd general's skills and to politically neutralize him.
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At the time, there could not have been any better messenger than Powell: a well-respected Republican, a former secretary of state and an army general.
When talking to former US secretary of state Colin Powell and others last week he certainly made the assumption that this issue would play out in the General Assembly rather than the Security Council.
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