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After weeks of pondering who should succeed Powell when he retires at the end of September, Clinton named a new Chairman who commands many of Powell's positive qualities but little of his glamour. The President's choice was Army General John Shalikashvili, 57, currently the Supreme Allied Commander at NATO. An officer of the sort the Army calls a "warrior," Shalikashvili muddied his boots as a buck private, commanded a division and a corps, and boasts the sort of American Dream career that fascinates Presidents...
...Georgian army officer and grandson of a czarist general, Shalikashvili was born in Warsaw and at the end of World War II fled Poland with his family in a cattle car, just ahead of the Soviet army. After migrating to the U.S. and teaching himself English by watching John Wayne movies, he joined the Army and steadily rose through the ranks. A virtually unpronounceable surname (shah-lee-kash-VEE-lee) and a reputation for passing on to subordinates the credit that more flamboyant officers reserve for themselves have earned him the diminutive "General Shali." He made his first international impact...
...Shalikashvili's nomination, a Marine Corps blunder handed Clinton another chance to show who's boss. In an effort to reduce the number of failed marriages that collapse under the rigors of Marine life, General Carl Mundy, the commandant, announced -- without consulting Aspin -- that the corps would refuse to accept married recruits as of Sept. 30, 1995. The political equivalent of a fragmentation grenade, Mundy's directive would have created a paradoxical situation in which the Marines would accept gay recruits -- as long as they kept mum about their sexual orientation -- but not married heterosexuals. "If they are not allowed...
Clinton nominated four-star Army General John Shalikashvili, a native of Poland who arrived in America at age 16, to succeed Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In his current post as a NATO commander, Shalikashvili has been critical of U.S. inaction in Bosnia...
...Army Lieut. General John Shalikashvili, commander of the relief effort, met with Iraqi officers near the border town of Zakhu to warn them to keep their troops away from the camps; at further meetings Americans and Iraqis will try to work out some ground rules to keep the two forces apart. But it is by no means certain that they can succeed, especially if allied soldiers decide to seize Iraqi military airstrips to land construction materials and relief supplies for the camps. The Operation Haven troops could also get caught in cross fire between Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish guerrillas using...