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Retired Gen. Colin L. Powell said he will not seek the Republican presidential nomination or any other office in 2000, lacking "the passion" for political life. "I went through this in 1995. I took a hard look at myself and took a look at the needs of my family and I concluded individually and we concluded as a family that political life was not for us," Powell said in Des Moines. Powell is heading President Clinton's national volunteerism effort.

Credit NBC with putting together back-to-back lures for political junkies. Sarah Palin's long-rumored appearance on "Saturday Night Live" happens tonight. And you can just keep your set tuned to the network when you go to bed, because the "must-see" TV on Sunday morning will be Colin L. Powell's appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is scheduled to receive a humanitarian award from a San Fernando Valley group March 22 at the Universal City Hilton Hotel. The San Fernando Valley Chapter of The Links Inc., an organization of black professional women, will give Powell the Don Newcombe Humanitarian Award "for his contribution to the nation and as a role model to the community at large," according to a spokeswoman for the organization. Powell is expected to attend.

Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Sunday called for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison and a rethinking of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy he authored as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The public comments represent Powell's effort to further distance himself from the Bush administration he once served.

Retired Gen. Colin L. Powell says the time may be right for a third political party to represent the nation's "sensible center." He is giving himself a fall deadline for deciding whether to run for President--from within or without the major parties. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff indicates in his new autobiography, excerpted in Monday's edition of Time magazine, that he is not inclined to make a White House bid.

Colin L. Powell mania has gained an unexpected convert: Cuban President Fidel Castro. Castro, in New York to attend the 50th anniversary celebration of the United Nations, told CNN television Sunday that he had 46 translators work four days to translate into Spanish "My American Journey," the autobiography of the former armed forces chief and potential presidential candidate.

Colin L. Powell is back. A mere month ago, a Time magazine cover story pondered why the secretary of State had seemed "absent" from the big issues of the day and called him the "odd man out" in crafting foreign policy. Even Powell conceded that he'd had to rein himself in when he got out ahead of the White House on key foreign policy issues, notably North Korea. But since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, Powell has emerged as the second most important U.S.

This wasn't your typical grade school assembly. As the fleet of three helicopters descended, there were screams and thunderous applause from about 850 students at Martin Elementary School. But it wasn't so much the sight of the trio of Navy copters that had the children in a tizzy, but rather who was aboard-- Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The nation's top military man. The general who helped mastermind the Desert Storm campaign.

I still find what I have heard this morning a catalog still of noncooperation. If Iraq genuinely wanted to disarm, we would not have to be worrying about setting up means of looking for mobile biological units .... The inspectors should not have to look under every rock, go to every crossroads, peer into every cave for evidence, for proof. And we must not allow Iraq to shift the burden of proof onto the inspectors.

Although Americans were overwhelmingly convinced by the case Secretary of State Colin L. Powell made against Saddam Hussein in his speech to the United Nations, they remain wary of war against Iraq without clear-cut U.N. backing, according to a new Los Angeles Times Poll. The survey, conducted among people interviewed a week earlier and contacted again Friday and Saturday, found a slight increase in support for unilateral military action and an uptick in President Bush's approval rating.

Former CIA Director George J. Tenet accepted blame Sunday for inaccurate statements made by then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in a 2003 address to the United Nations about Iraq's weapons capability. Tenet spent three days vetting Powell's Feb. 5, 2003, speech to the U.N. Security Council and thought it was "good and solid," the former CIA chief said. At the time, Powell, with Tenet seated behind him at the U.N.

Congressional Democrats on Sunday kept up their attacks on substandard care for injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as they prepared for hearings on the issue this week. "If it's this bad at the outpatient facilities at Walter Reed, how is it in the rest of the country?" Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on ABC's "This Week." "Walter Reed is our crown jewel." In a letter sent Sunday to Defense Secretary Robert M.

Excerpts from letters, released Thursday, from former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on detainee legislation. Powell's letter: Dear Senator [John] McCain: I just returned to town and learned about the debate taking place in Congress to redefine Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. I do not support such a step and believe it would be inconsistent with the McCain amendment on torture which I supported last year.

A Republican-controlled Senate committee dealt a blow to President Bush's national security agenda Thursday, approving a bill that would expand the legal rights of terrorism detainees. The rebuke capped a day of bruising political combat in which Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) released a letter from Colin L. Powell, the president's former secretary of State, opposing Bush's proposal to allow more extreme methods of interrogation.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the Bush administration's Iraq war planning Sunday after her predecessor, Colin L. Powell, said he had made a case to send more troops to deal with the war's aftermath. Rice said she did not "remember specifically" what instance Powell was referring to when he said he recommended to President Bush that more troops be sent.

IT'S BEEN ONE YEAR since Colin L. Powell left high office. Where did he go? So sad, even tragic, is the tale of this man's evaporation. Once, he might have made a serious run for president, under either party's banner.

Seven years ago, while jogging at Ft. Leavenworth, Gen. Colin L. Powell happened upon two gravel alleyways that were named for the 9th and 10th cavalries. "I wonder if that's all there is?" he thought. Powell then was a major general at the Army base, which had been home to the two all-black cavalry units, dubbed "buffalo soldiers" by the Indians they fought in the 19th Century.

The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims during the run-up to the war in Iraq. Five senior officials from Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with The Times that they warned U.S.

Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said in an interview to be broadcast today that the United States would have a military presence in Iraq for years, although a gradual withdrawal probably would start in 2006. In the interview with the British Broadcasting Corp., Powell said a massive, rapid pullout would be a "tragic mistake." He also said U.S.

The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims during the run-up to the war in Iraq. Five senior officials from Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with The Times that they warned U.S.