Word: aspine
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...speech Sunday night expressing his regrets about the deaths but calling the mission "very successful." By Monday morning Clinton, returning to his hotel in San Francisco after an early jog, learned that the situation was more serious. He took a conference call from Lake, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and two other advisers, who told him of the extent of casualties. "How did this happen?" Clinton demanded of Aspin, who put most of the blame on a U.N. command and control structure that had been unable to rush well-equipped troops to the Rangers' rescue. During another conference call later...
...District Judge Terry Hatter Jr., sitting in Los Angeles, wants to know why the Navy's ban on homosexuals is still in place eight months after he declared it unconstitutional. He has instructed Defense Secretary Les Aspin, along with the Secretary of the Navy and the commanding officer of a Bay Area naval air station, to explain themselves in a court hearing this week or be held in contempt...
Washington -- The Seawolf attack submarine is built in Connecticut, and during last year's Connecticut primary, candidate Clinton promised to support a third Seawolf. Last week in his major Bottom Up review of military requirements, Defense Secretary Les Aspin reaffirmed the Administration's plans to build that submarine. The unmentioned price: $5.5 billion -- more than five times initial estimates. That is one reason why Clinton must renege on $13 billion of the $124 billion he planned to cut from the Pentagon's budget over the next five years...
Defense Secretary Les Aspin unveiled a five-year plan to cut back on military spending and personnel. Troop numbers would shrink from 1.7 million to 1.4 million, and "Star Wars" spending would be cut from $39 billion to $18 billion. The U.S. would continue its strategy of remaining prepared to fight two regional wars nearly simultaneously, Aspin said. The Pentagon also acknowledged that it intended to purchase unnecessary weapons in order to keep production lines running...
President Clinton dispatched 400 of the Army's elite Rangers to Somalia, beefing up the U.S. presence there following a series of attacks on American troops that killed four. Defense Secretary Les Aspin said U.S. forces will stay until the Somali capital is calm, rebel leaders give up their heavy weapons, and a national police force is in place...