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...shepherding the country and its allies toward Desert Storm. But the situation in Bosnia is fundamentally different -- and President Bush, after all, was in no hurry to send American troops to Bosnia. As Clinton hesitated, lobbying American allies and mulling over his options, General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emerged as a key player on Clinton's national security team. Last week, Powell reportedly remarked, "Boy, was the Gulf War easy compared to this." Consensus building is part of leadership. As the Pentagon plotted strikes from Italy and the Adriatic, Clinton said he would seek both...
...Commencement Pride Coalition, which is organizing protests inside the Yard, plans to distribute 7,000 balloons before Powell speaks, representing what they say are the number of gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers ejected from the military under Powell's tenure as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They also plan to distribute mortarboard stickers and to chant "Lift the ban" while Powell receives his honorary degree...
Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders will also be making the trip north from Washington to Cambridge to speak at various events June...
...tried to stab Jefferson). The cops have a patrol car and a radio, so this is the 20th century. Sally is, or is not, somewhere else, someone else. A huge black cop, Wade, searches obsessively for Mona, a woman he met years ago at a strip joint called the Fleurs d'X. She may be Sally or a daughter, or not. The city is Aeonopolis, and it could be San Francisco, much decayed, if San Francisco had a huge, smoking volcano where the Bay Bridge is. White-robed priests police thought and behavior and try to capture a graffiti artist...
...Pentagon. Originally Defense Secretary Les Aspin leaned toward air strikes to punish the Serbs, while Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, counseled against any involvement unless the U.S. used overwhelming force to win complete victory. But eventually they came to Clinton united. Neither wanted to commit American ground forces. Both were willing to exempt the Bosnian Muslims from the arms embargo. They agreed that air strikes would be unlikely to accomplish ambitious goals like rolling back Serbian territorial gains. Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill A. McPeak testified that his bombers could "put out of business" most...