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...nation met Ralston than it prepared to say farewell. Within 24 hours of the disclosure, the Pentagon was distancing itself from the man Cohen had anointed as his choice to replace Army General John Shalikashvili, and was scrambling to find a replacement to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before the Senate leaves town in August. Worries about a double standard aside, many military experts said the uniformed services desperately need a leader with impeccable credentials in the realm of sexual ethics. In the wake of Cohen's dispensation, even Colin Powell, Shalikashvili's predecessor, privately grumbled...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The search for a replacement candidate to head the Joint Chiefs has moved into high gear. Top contenders include Admiral Joseph Lopez, commander of NATO's southern flank; Army General Wesley Clark, commander of U.S. forces in Central and South America; Marine Corps Commandant General Charles Krulak and Army General George A. Joulwan. Defense Secretary Cohen, who must find a suitable nominee before General John Shalikashvili retires from the post in September, has said he would probably send President Clinton a recommendation in a few weeks. But Pentagon officials concede that all potential nominees will face a once...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Having become the poster boy for the Pentagon?s double standard on sex, Air Force General Joseph Ralston withdrew from consideration as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rather than face a hostile and microscopic Senate examination of his past. He insisted to the end that his adulterous affair deserved different treatment than that suffered by a flock of other military officers. "My regret is that the public discussion surrounding my potential nomination blurred the facts in a number of recent cases," Ralston said. He will continue in his post as vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: If William Cohen insists on standing by his man, he may soon be standing alone. Despite backing from Cohen and current Joint Chiefs chair John Shalikashvili, some military officers and even Colin Powell say that Joseph Ralston should back out of consideration for the military's top post. President Clinton may soon agree, reports TIME's Mark Thompson. "I can't see why the President would want to endure this nomination process. It promises unsavory televised hearings, focused not on military matters, but on personal matters. It's not as if Ralston is a popular figure or something...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Defense Secretary William Cohen is standing by his decision to pardon Air Force General Joseph Ralston, the top candidate to succeed John Shalikashvili as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair, for an adulterous affair. The move has many questioning whether Cohen was establishing a double standard in the military in the wake of a string of high-profile soldiers who have been dismissed on similar charges in the past few months. Cohen said Ralston's affair was forgivable because it happened 13-years ago, but the Defense Secretary just this week accepted General James Longhouser's resignation over...