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- <text id=91TT0925>
- <title>
- Apr. 29, 1991: An Offer He Could Refuse
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 29, 1991 Nuclear Power
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
- An Offer He Could Refuse
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquart
- </p>
- <p> General Norman Schwarzkopf returns home this week to a
- hero's welcome--and that has some disgruntled military
- colleagues anxious to amend the record. They say that contrary
- to many reports, Schwarzkopf was never in line to be Army Chief
- of Staff. Top Pentagon officials contend that the general was
- offered--and rejected--an appointment as Supreme Allied
- Commander for Europe. The general turned down the NATO job, they
- assume, largely because he realized that it has become less
- important in the post-cold war era. Some top brass consider
- Schwarzkopf too mercurial for the bureaucratic Army job and
- aren't shedding many tears over his decision to retire. Could
- the lucrative private-sector offers that Schwarzkopf has
- received, along with a possible honorary knighthood from Queen
- Elizabeth II, have anything at all to do with the sniping?
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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