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...Representative, BILL RICHARDSON, to look into the mysterious vibration. His investigation, which is continuing, has uncovered three U.S. Air Force projects that could be behind the noise: a structure used to bounce radar waves, a low-flying airborne laser laboratory, and helicopters. Recently, Richardson wrote Defense Secretary Les Aspin asking him to "make the necessary changes" to end the problem...
DEFENSE SECRETARY LES ASPIN IS SEETHING OVER A LEAK during the transition that soured Bill Clinton's relations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff over the issue of homosexuals in the military. Aspin's top-secret strategy advisory to Clinton -- in which Aspin recommended that discussion of the issue with the Chiefs should be merely pro forma and that Clinton should plow ahead regardless of what they said -- was written on the House Armed Services Committee computer. Administration sources say the memo was stolen from the computer by a Republican committee staff member, who passed it on to G.O.P. opponents...
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...that point, Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin stepped in to mediate, proposing a compromise in which Clinton would "instruct" Aspin to draft the Executive Order over a six-month period. Aspin sold the plan to Clinton at a Blair House meeting three days before the Inauguration, but that too was leaked before Aspin met with the Chiefs. When he did, he discovered that the Chiefs had grown much more resistant. Aspin's attempts to keep the Chiefs on board failed during a stormy two-hour session in the top-secret, soundproof "tank" at the Pentagon...
...Senate Armed Services Committee. Nunn, who is a close confidant of General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, often seems to believe that all military matters are best disposed by him and that anything else is an attempt to railroad the Pentagon bureaucracy. But Clinton tapped Aspin to deal with Nunn in part because relations between the Senator and the President have never been great. The ( White House has not forgotten Nunn's lukewarm effort on behalf of Clinton during the Georgia primary last year, nor his sudden disappearance from a scheduled campaign swing with Hillary Clinton...