Word: aspin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what amounted to a suicide mission in the hope of winning sympathy and provoking international criticism of the U.S. "Colonel Gaddafi knows that he is irrelevant within the Arab world and can win support only when he is perceived as the victim of superpower oppression," said Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "Two planes is a cheap price to pay so he can hear outpourings of fervent backing...
...military bases for termination within the next six years. The Pentagon figures that shutting them down, while partially closing five more and realigning 54 others, will save $693.6 million a year. In the short run, the closings will result in the elimination of 24,000 civilian jobs. But Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, estimates there ultimately will be a net loss of only 8,000 nonmilitary positions...
...Dukakis campaign has been slow to use its own institutional advantage: Senate Democrats. After the convention, party leaders waited in irritation for calls that never came. Groused a Senator's aide: "It was a 'We know best' attitude." Belatedly, Sam Nunn, Les Aspin, Al Gore and John Glenn were summoned by Dukakis last week...
...Senator Charles Grassley predicted that it will reveal a "fraudulent use of taxpayers' money beyond the wildest imagination." Speaking into a committee microphone he thought was turned off, Republican Senator John Warner, a former Secretary of the Navy, confided that "rampant bribery in Government" had been uncovered. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he was "utterly astounded...
...some of the defense contractors may contend they had no idea that the middleman may have acquired his helpful knowledge illegally. This is something, in all probability, that the contractor does not want to know. "There is an enormous flow of information between the Pentagon and the contractors," explains Aspin. "The dividing line is when bribes are given or taken. This is just plain illegal...