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...military, which has become a model of diversity at many levels, has yet to break up the white male fraternity in the most desirable ranks. White males still make up 98% of military pilots. Military officials say many minority servicemen lack the high level of education required for flight school. But both women and blacks argue that the culture is hostile to them--and the Tailhook incident, for one, seems to support that claim...
...that was it. More words followed from the President about his concern for completing the long, tortuous investigation into the fate of U.S. servicemen in the Vietnam War who are still listed as MIA, or missing in action. Even as he spoke, though, recognition of Hanoi was a reality. A foreign policy initiative that no White House incumbent since 1975 has felt safe enough or accommodating enough to hazard was now Clinton's fait accompli...
Republican lawmakers unimpressed with Hanoi's efforts to account for American MIAs attacked President Clinton fornormalizing relations with Vietnam. At a House International Relations Committee hearing boycotted by Democrats, several GOP lawmakers alleged thatVietnamese officials are holding the remains of up to 400 U.S. servicemen. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord testified that there was no evidence to back up such a claim, and that Vietnam lacked an incentive to do so in any case. Even so, Committee Chairman Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.) threatened to withhold funds needed to open a U.S. embassy in Hanoi -- an option that Senate...
...White House, Clintonexchanged 20 years of cold peace for active ties to an economically resurgent Vietnam. He did so amid boycotts by veterans groups and Republican leaders -- including most contenders for the presidential nomination -- who protested that Hanoi had done far toolittle to help account for U.S. servicemen missing in the Vietnamese conflict. "All signs point to Vietnam willfully withholding information which could resolve the fate of many Americans lost in the war," saidSenate Majority Leader Bob Dole. But the President, citing increased Vietnamese cooperation on the issue as relations thawed over the last year, countered that normalization...
Before the ceremony, representitives ofMIA-POWgroups -- many of whom oppose the move -- will receive a special briefing at the White House from leaders of the U.S. delegation that worked with Vietnamese officials to account for American servicemen missing since the conflict. The Pentagon, meanwhile, today said that closer relations with Hanoi would lead to a fuller accounting, especially for 55 high priority cases on which the Vietnamese government may have more information...