1.   And he will depend on a trusted national security adviser to cajole and hammer this collection of heavyweights into a coherent team.

2.   At the time, Berger was deputy national security adviser to President Clinton.

3.   But the newly appointed national security adviser has been assiduously built into a prominent player in the Bush team.

4.   Condoleezza Rice, as national security adviser, can supply both.

5.   Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser, is a former provost of Stanford University.

6.   Deputy national security adviser Sandy Berger and deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes also are candidates.

7.   It helps that her mentor, Brent Scowcroft, was national security adviser to Bush senior.

8.   None the less, Zahedi had easy access to Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carters national security adviser.

9.   The problems with the stock arose soon after Lake assumed the post of national security adviser almost four years ago.