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...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...
...that may have served as part of a cold war strategy to deceive the Soviets into spending their way into oblivion to counter SDI, similar misinformation was provided to Congress to persuade it to fund the program with huge sums -- $31 billion to date. Clearly stung, Defense Secretary Les Aspin, a former Congressman, ordered an internal investigation at the Pentagon. Said he: "Any allegation that the Congress has been misled raises serious questions." Said Senator David Pryor, whose long-standing probe of SDI seems to have triggered the revelations: "It could totally discredit the testing process and the credibility...