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...purpose was to "reaffirm clearly and explicitly our own position against discrimination in the University," she said, and the motion was timed to provide a "counter-weight to the implicit endorsement of General [Colin L.] Powell's stance by the University." Powell, who chairs the Joint Chiefs of Staff and has defended the military's policy on gays, is Harvard's Commencement speaker this year...
...wake of Harvard's invitation to Gen. Colin L. Powell to speak at Commencement, the full Faculty may vote tomorrow on the recommendations of the ROTC committee, which include a suggestion to discontinue paying the costs of supporting Harvard students enrolled in MIT's ROTC program...
...leadership George Bush showed in shepherding the country and its allies toward Desert Storm. But the situation in Bosnia is fundamentally different -- and President Bush, after all, was in no hurry to send American troops to Bosnia. As Clinton hesitated, lobbying American allies and mulling over his options, General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emerged as a key player on Clinton's national security team. Last week, Powell reportedly remarked, "Boy, was the Gulf War easy compared to this." Consensus building is part of leadership. As the Pentagon plotted strikes from Italy and the Adriatic, Clinton...
This vacuum of authority has led to the emergence, ironically, of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell as a central figure in the Administration's security policy. Powell, who has clashed openly with Clinton on issues like gays in the military, found himself thrust into a key role in developing a Bosnia plan, even though he had serious reservations about intervention. In meetings with Congress last week, Aspin and Powell left no doubt about the situation. Powell dominated the session, going into such detail on the military options, an attendee said, that he may have undercut the Administration...
...road from here seems clear enough. Having in effect said the Bosnian Serbs must cease and desist, Clinton must act. But enthralled by multilateralism and fearful of a Vietnam-like quagmire (and against the private advice of senior military officers like Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, who believes intervention should be massive or not at all), the President seems bent on adopting a feelgood strategy -- a limited action designed, above everything, to ensure a swift exit, a policy that defines success as merely having done something without regard to the ultimate result. By all accounts, Clinton aims...