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DEFENSE SECRETARY LES ASPIN IS SEETHING OVER A LEAK during the transition that soured Bill Clinton's relations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff over the issue of homosexuals in the military. Aspin's top-secret strategy advisory to Clinton -- in which Aspin recommended that discussion of the issue with the Chiefs should be merely pro forma and that Clinton should plow ahead regardless of what they said -- was written on the House Armed Services Committee computer. Administration sources say the memo was stolen from the computer by a Republican committee staff member, who passed it on to G.O.P. opponents...
...putting out a new figure of $31 billion, divided about equally between new spending and tax credits for business investment. Clinton also renewed a pledge to raise taxes on the rich before hitting the middle class; the leading idea is to tax incomes above $200,000 a year for joint returns at 38%, vs. 31% at present. Advisers caution, however, that with Clinton, no decision is ever final until it is officially proclaimed...
...FRAMED EPIGRAM IN COLIN POWell's office is from the Greek historian Thucydides. "Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most." Restraint used to be the hallmark of Powell's own style as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Opposed though he was to using force against Saddam Hussein, he was careful in White House meetings before the war never to confront George Bush directly on the issue. But in his blunt dealings with the Clinton Administration over gays in the military and cutbacks in U.S. forces, Powell has been notably less restrained. The change has heated...
Running on a block, Swan and Wexler stated in their joint position paper that they would try to lead RUS in the direction of "a forum to discuss the issues important to women at Harvard/Radcliffe, as a body which can take action to respond to those concerns...
Clinton might yet have avoided the worst of the crisis had he sought the advice and support of Nunn, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Nunn, who is a close confidant of General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, often seems to believe that all military matters are best disposed by him and that anything else is an attempt to railroad the Pentagon bureaucracy. But Clinton tapped Aspin to deal with Nunn in part because relations between the Senator and the President have never been great. The ( White House has not forgotten Nunn's lukewarm effort...