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...Congress as well. A pro-choice advocate who works for domestic-violence awareness, she supports the assault-weapons ban and the Brady Bill, and wants to protect educational programs like Head Start and student loans. G.O.P. freshman Mark Neumann may be vulnerable here, where voters re-elected Democrat Les Aspin 11 times...
...have a hard time making that case. "The people on the base closing commission tell me that McClellan was the strongest candidate for closing on their list. The Pentagon's own numbers say it should be closed. The Air Force recommended that it be closed in 1993 before Les Aspin saved it for political reasons...
DIED. LES ASPIN, 56, ex-Clinton Defense Secretary; of a stroke; in Washington. Aspin's thoughtful manner made for a difficult fit with the snap-to-it Pentagon, where the former chair of the House Armed Services Committee confronted hot-button issues like gays in the military. When it was revealed that he had turned down requests for more tanks and armored vehicles in Somalia prior to the deaths of 18 American soldiers in a Mogadishu fire fight, Aspin resigned-after less than a year at the helm...
HOSPITALIZED. LES ASPIN, 56, former Defense Secretary; after a stroke; in Washington. Now the head of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Aspin has a history of heart problems...
...Aspin, the one-time Pentagon "whiz kid" who returned to oversee the downsizing of the military as President Clinton's first Defense secretary, died Sunday night after suffering a massive stroke.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonremembers Aspin as gifted and idiosyncratic -- a "perfect idea man" who flourished during a long and controversial tenure as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. But as Defense secretary, Aspin's utter absorption in minutiae and his rumpled, professorial style did him in. "He was consumed by his work, and it ultimately proved his downfall," Thompson says. "He was not a manager, and that...