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This syndrome, called "multiple chemical sensitivity," explains some of the respiratory symptoms doctors have documented. But it cannot account for all the ailments. As a result, Aspin announced the creation of a board of inquiry headed by Joshua Lederberg of Rockefeller University, a Nobel- prizewinning expert on rare and emerging diseases. But it is up to the Pentagon to bridge the credibility gap that seems to have sprouted over the strange new syndrome...
Christopher and the other two members of the troika that helps run U.S. foreign policy -- Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and National Security Adviser Tony Lake -- share all the virtues in the Boy Scout Oath and then some: they are talented, intelligent, hardworking men who rarely backstab or second-guess one another. They argue correctly that they have done well enough on the issues that affect the country's most vital interests, including Russia, the Middle East, relations with Japan, and the future of NATO. It is also true that Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti are intricate problems with no easy...
That finger is aimed at Defense Secretary Aspin, whose appearance with Christopher before congressional leaders last month to explain the heavy U.S. casualties in Mogadishu was a particular disaster. Aspin, pushed by the White House into meeting the legislators before Clinton had made key policy decisions on Somalia, understandably stumbled. Moreover, he dismayed lawmakers eager for answers by asking for their advice. He thought he was "consulting," but some of those present considered it their worst meeting ever with an Administration witness...
...member of Congress for 22 years, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee for eight, Aspin owes some of his problems to lack of bureaucratic prowess -- a necessary skill in running the Pentagon. He is a frenetic man in motion, physically and mentally. He is not helped by some of the worst tailoring in Washington; only recently have aides persuaded him to stop wearing his baggy light tan suits to military ceremonies. "Les is always searching for a new idea," says one of his aides. Yes, says Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, but "his folksy...
...must be implemented and sold to a nation that enjoys the idea of being a superpower but is unwilling to pay the price of behaving like one in places where it sees no obvious national interest. Congress and the public would be more likely to follow if Clinton, Christopher, Aspin and Lake all marched smartly in the same direction...