Word: aspine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House's revolving door is spinning again, causing new headaches for an Administration with a spotty hiring record. In: a new Pentagon head, Deputy Defense Secretary William Perry. Chosen by President Clinton to succeed Les Aspin, the widely respected Perry steps in for Bobby Ray Inman, who abruptly withdrew his candidacy two weeks ago. Out: the second highest official in the Justice Department, Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann, who resigned after citing "chemistry" problems with Attorney General Janet Reno...
Lame duck Defense Secretary Les Aspin overruled the Army and Marine Corps to approve a policy that will expand the presence of women in ground-combat forces. Women still won't engage in fighting, but Aspin has ordered that they be allowed to take dangerous support jobs that have been closed to them. The two services have until May 1 to provide a list of what these jobs will...
...Presidents need cram sessions, and last Tuesday Bill Clinton, preparing for his trip to Europe, convened a study group in the White House. After cocktails in the Red Room, the 24 or so participants, including Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, sat down at a horseshoe-shaped table for elegantly served courses of mushroom soup, venison and wild rice, accompanied by Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Since it was a seminar as well as a dinner, guest experts talked while the others ate, giving prepared comments on the future of NATO, postelection...
...leading NATO states like Britain and France are in no hurry to take Poland or Hungary into the alliance, which is above all a military pact. Outgoing Defense Secretary Aspin says he is "uncomfortable with extending security guarantees to new countries while we're cutting the defense budget." If Poland were admitted to NATO, "we would be saying that an attack on Poland would be the same as an attack on New York." A threat to use nuclear weapons to back that up might not be credible, and a conventional defense of Poland against invasion from the east would cost...
...said the government should compensate the victims. The department estimates that 800 people were purposely used as "nuclear guinea pigs" in an effort to study the effects of radiation. It is still not known how many of the subjects understood what was being done to them. Defense Secretary Les Aspin has ordered a review of all files on the issue, and Congress will hold hearings on the tests soon after it reconvenes this month...