Word: aspine
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Pentagon spokesperson Susan P. Hansen said yesterday that she supported statements made by Defense Secretary Les Aspin's spokesperson Vernon A. Guidry that the secretary continues to support Allison...
...report, sent to Aspin on June 22, was in response to a series of questions raised by the principal director of Russian, Eurasian and East European affairs at the Defense Department. The inspector general's report described a few instances in which both Allison and Blackwill seemed to either misinterpret regulations or refer to conversations that others did not remember...
...related to funding for a Kennedy School seminar to be conducted by Blackwill for students at the Russian General Staff Academy, for which Blackwill was seeking private funding. The report said Allison mentioned the program to the Russian Defense Attache during a meeting in April and indicated that Aspin supported the program. Allison said at the time that Blackwill would be in Russia shortly to discuss the proposal with the General Staff Academy head...
...Chancellorsville, sailing in the Persian Gulf. The missiles were fired in the late afternoon Washington time, or about midnight in Baghdad. Carrying 1,000 lbs. of explosives apiece, they reached their target, the sprawling Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters, in about an hour and a half. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell explained that the intelligence agency had undoubtedly conducted the assassination attempt, so it merited the punishment. Further, as Aspin said, the attack was intended to send a message to those who serve closest to Saddam that "following this man is not good...
...will not, in fact, be easy for the commission to change Aspin's hit list, which could be bad news for Charleston. The criteria to be applied are strict, beginning with the military value of the bases to be closed, going on to potential costs and savings and ending with the impact on local communities. The military services have supplied the commission with hundreds of pages of analysis and projections. Aspin says his base-closing plan will save $3.1 billion annually beginning in the year 2000, while eliminating 57,000 civilian jobs...