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...tone and content, this letter is totally consistent with the now famous one that Clinton wrote to Colonel Holmes three months later. Together, the two letters bracket the period when Rosenbaum and others suggest Clinton was confident that he had successfully dodged the draft...
...first hours of the crisis, Reagan ordered that the Pope receive as quickly as possible relevant American intelligence, including information from * a Polish Deputy Minister of Defense who was secretly reporting to the CIA. Washington also handed over to the Vatican reports and analysis from Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a senior member of the Polish general staff, who was a CIA informant until November 1981, when he had to be smuggled out of Poland after he warned that the Soviets were prepared to invade if the Polish government did not impose martial law. Kuklinski had issued a similar warning about...
...letter that Clinton composed in a chilly room at the end of 1969 was addressed to Colonel Eugene Holmes, the director of the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas. In three typewritten pages, Clinton explained why he did not enroll in the university's ROTC program as he had previously agreed to do. Getting into ROTC at the university's law school would have given Clinton a four-year draft deferment, but he told Colonel Holmes that he had decided to take his chances with the draft...
...unsubstantiated allegations of a 12-year affair between the two, Clinton was rocked by old charges that he dodged the draft during the height of the Vietnam War. The facts are convoluted and hotly contested, and the credibility of Clinton's accusers is in dispute. One, a retired Army colonel, has for over a decade been telling a diametrically opposite tale that exonerates Clinton. The other, a former official of Clinton's draft board and a Republican, recalls conversations with Clinton that the Governor says never took place...
Perez was able to return to his office a few hours later. Most of the armed forces had remained loyal, and air force F-16 jets strafed rebel positions, blocking their movements and disrupting their communications. The coup leader, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, 37, dressed in combat gear and a red paratrooper's beret, turned himself in 12 hours after the shooting began, but warned that the military might find "another occasion." More than 1,200 rebel soldiers surrendered, including 136 officers. Officials said as many as 7,000 of the 73,000 troops in the armed forces...