* Ed A. Hewett; Foreign Economic Adviser to President Bush
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Ed A. Hewett, 50, a National Security Council staff member considered an authority on the economies of Russia and other nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Hewett was President Bush’s special assistant and senior adviser for Russian and Eurasian affairs. He joined the NSC staff in 1991 and recently received a special exceptional service award from Bush. Hewett was considered an architect of White House policy toward the new nations of the former Soviet Union and accompanied Bush to the July, 1991, Moscow summit. He later led delegations to Russia and the Ukraine. He spent 10 years at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, before joining the Bush White House in 1991. In Washington on Friday of cancer.
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