Word: les
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...that the services suspend discharge proceedings against homosexuals who have committed no offenses of conduct. However, commanders can still force gays to be transferred out of their units, and homosexuals about to be discharged anyway will be suspended from active duty. The President gave Secretary of Defense Les Aspin a July 15 deadline to draft an Executive Order formally lifting the ban and spelling out a detailed policy for doing so. Clinton pledged to enforce "rigorous standards regarding sexual conduct" that presumably would not allow a gay soldier to solicit sex from a straight...
Secretary of Defense Les Aspin has tapped Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Ashton B. Carter for a new position, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear security and counter proliferation, but President Clinton must approve the appointment...
Jack Nicholson read the words of Abraham Lincoln. Aretha Franklin, a natural woman in a natural fur, sang a hymn to single motherhood from Les Miserables. Kermit the Frog sent Gonzo the Great searching for the White House. Barbra Streisand performed a knockout set and gave her benediction to the party's Arkansas hosts. Warren Beatty, recently married, spoke of political honeymoons. En Vogue and Boys II Men showed that a cappella renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner could have art and soul. Michael Jackson led a chorus of glamourati in We Are the World. Some geezer band from...
...comments that went unnoticed during a recent visit to the U.S. Naval Academy, Powell said that if "you find it completely unacceptable and it strikes to the heart of your moral beliefs, then I think you have to resign." He may not be alone. Meeting with Secretary of Defense Les Aspin last week, the other five members of the Joint Chiefs forcefully backed Powell's opposition to Clinton's idea...
...Scowcroft, the outgoing National Security Adviser, strode up the stairs to Blair House to deliver his final briefing to the President-elect. It focused, naturally, on Iraq. At the Pentagon, General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a similar presentation to incoming Secretary of Defense Les Aspin. The sessions amounted to a formal hand-off; what to do about Iraq is up to Clinton and the national-security team he is assembling...