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...Ralston thanked Cohen for his support and said he has tried to learn from his mistake. "Our armed forces are composed of human beings that strive to meet the highest standards every day," he said, "but I am acutely aware of human strengths and human frailties." So too is the White House, which in the midst of the Paula Jones battle has no desire to see a few days of televised hearings about adultery or anything else sensational before the Senate. And so the chances of Ralston's securing the nomination seem to be in a fatal dive. The Pentagon...
...Ralston's tailspin came at the end of an unprecedented fortnight at the Pentagon, where senior officers held their breath amid almost daily charges and revelations about career-ending sexual misconduct. No sooner had the Air Force completed its awkward ejection of Lieut. Flinn than allegations of wrongdoing by officials high and low began landing in the Pentagon's backyard. Army Major General John Longhouser, commanding general of Aberdeen Proving Ground, decided last week to retire after a telephone tipster told Army investigators of an affair Longhouser had had five years ago. Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved...
...Cohen said he had to "draw a line." But that line seemed skewed in favor of a man with four stars on his shoulder and 32 years of service. The Pentagon chief and his aides spent much of last week splitting legal hairs to show why Ralston's transgression wasn't as severe as Flinn's. Whereas Flinn, the Air Force's first female B-52 pilot, lied about her affair and disobeyed an order to stop seeing her boyfriend, Ralston had his fling when the then colonel and his first wife were separated. Because Ralston and his love...
Cohen learned of Ralston's affair only last Monday from reporters who had heard of it from Ralston's former war-college classmates. His only discussions with Ralston on the matter have been over the phone (the general was on an official, week-long trip to central Asia). Ralston, 53, told Cohen the affair occurred while he and his first wife, Linda, were separated. She disputes that assertion, claiming the affair continued and led to their 1988 divorce. The next year Ralston married his current wife, who was not involved in the affair...
...example, in the case of Air Force General Joseph W. Ralston, who may have stretched the military's "Don't-ask, don't-tell" policy practically to its limits by not mentioning an adulterous affair until he was confronted about it 13 years later, one mitigating factor was that the other party, a woman who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, was not under his command or even in the service, and thus presented no threat to good order and discipline...