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Bush names Condoleezza Rice
as national security adviser: PTI

United States President-elect George W Bush has named African-American Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser, a top foreign policy post directly under the president.

Rice, 46, is the first woman to hold the post once held by Dr Henry Kissinger and now by Samuel Berger. With Colin Powell, nominated as secretary of state by Bush, she will form a historic African-American duo in-charge of US foreign policy.

Bush also announced the appointment of Hispanic Texas Supreme Court Justice Alberto Gonzales, 45, as White House counsel and spokeswoman Karen Hughes, 43, as counsellor to the President to help oversee "strategic planning".

Rice, who in a recent article in Foreign Affairs, had strongly urged closer relations with India, is a highly qualified academic who earned kudos helping former president George Bush, engineer a soft landing to the Cold War.

However, it will take some time to know whether and when Bush will lift all post-nuclear sanctions against India imposed by the Clinton administration.

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