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...Pentagon, which absorbs roughly one out of every five federal dollars, the leadership of all three services has braced for draconian cuts. Only a week before Defense Secretary Les Aspin was fired in December, officials confirmed that current funding would fall $50 billion short of supporting the force levels Clinton has called for through 1999. Indeed, Clinton's budget slashes $1.4 billion in defense procurement programs, almost half the overall $3.25 billion in cuts the President is recommending. But the proposals will encounter strenuous opposition from congressional Republicans and such leading Democrats as Sam Nunn of Georgia, who chairs...
...Aspin May Not Be Beijing Bound...
Washington -- Former Secretary of Defense LES ASPIN probably won't accept President Clinton's offer to be U.S. Ambassador to China. Aspin wants to remain active in the Washington scene, and he's mulling over another job Clinton has proposed to him: head of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. What would please Aspin most, though, is a job in academia, preferably as a university president...
After only one day of hearings, the Senate voted 97-0 to confirm William Perry as Secretary of Defense. He replaces Les Aspin...
...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...