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Since the day Bill Clinton was sworn in, his command over the armed forces has suffered from the sort of contempt rarely shown by the men and women in uniform toward a newly minted President. Believing that 12 years of Republican indulgence has habituated the military to calling its own shots, the President has dreamed of reaffirming civilian leadership over the Pentagon. But his hands have been tied both by his image as a draft dodger and by the popularity and political adroitness of General Colin Powell, the extraordinary Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who virtually dictated...
...sensitivities," who is also a working-world bumbler pushed by affirmative action into jobs she was unequipped to handle. Brock has a bad habit of raising a conjecture on one page only to restate it as a fact on the next. But his close examination of FBI records, the sworn testimony of Hill's witnesses and his interviews with people who knew (and mostly disliked) Hill, while they may be one-sided, turn up enough gaps and question marks to ensure that the other side will be busy for some time smoothing the seams in Hill's story...
...severely compromise unity, effectiveness, and morale." If McGuire and others who share his views truly believe that these compromises would occur if homosexuals were officially accepted by the military, then it is they who are actually compromising the military's effectiveness. They do so by implying that professional soldiers, sworn to perform their duties and uphold the military's high standards of conduct, would be dissuaded from doing so because of the sexual tensions that would be introduced by the open presence of homosexuals in military units...
...jurors had promised to ignore the possibility that their decision might cause riots. Other Angelenos were not so sworn. Los Angeles police chief Willie Williams said 6,500 officers would be at ready when deliberations began. A second flammable trial, of Reginald Denny's alleged attackers, was postponed, to widespread relief. A hotline was installed to handle rumors, like that of black gangs' targeting white suburbs. Youths with carbines and "Korean Watch Team" jackets prepared to patrol Koreatown's perimeter. All knew the stakes: if things went really wrong, L.A. risked becoming America-as- Yugoslavia, a collection of warring enclaves...
...Specter and Orrin Hatch, ogres to feminists because of their hostile questioning of Anita Hill, gushed admiration for Reno, and the committee suspended its rules in order to vote immediately -- and unanimously -- for confirmation. So did the full Senate, 98 to 0, the next day. On Friday, Reno was sworn in, filling the last Cabinet chair...