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NORTHWEST HERALD Wednesday, July 21. 1993 Page 5 NATION WORLD Joint Chiefs back 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on gays in armed forces it "XT VC list" A By MARTIN KASINOORF Newsday 1 WASHINGTON The Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose original opposition led President Clinton to compromise on a pledge to let avowed homosexuals serve in uniform, came through for their commander-in-chief with close-combat support at a crucial Senate hearing Tuesday. Enthusiastically led by Army Gen. Colin Powell, the retiring Joint Chiefs chairman, the six service commanders joined Defense Secretary Les Aspin in backing Monday's "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" easing of the Pentagon's 50-year-old gay exclusion policy. "The chiefs do "not believe they have been shotgunned into this policy just because we're Polled repeatedly for their private views by six senators, the four generals and two admirals left no politically exploitable gap between themselves and Asked by Sen.

John Warner, whether Clinton's policy, would improve combat readiness, five of the chiefs said it would do so by bringing clarity to a confusing subject. Marine Corps Commandant Carl E. Mundy Jr. dissented only to the extent of saying the new rules would maintain readiness. Powell, after rejecting public criticism that the service chiefs were "insubordinate" in battling Clinton in January, sprang to the president's defense when Sen.

Lauch Faircloth, implied that Clinton's views resulted from a lack of military experience. "It is unfair to single out the president in this regard," Powell said. into law and who termed the new policy vague and threatening to military readiness. Senate. Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn, faced with the solid military front, said he welcomed language in the White House-approved directive that met his demands, and held off on sponsoring separate legislation that would give the old ban the force of law.

But Nunn, ignoring pleas by Aspin and Sen. Charles Robb, to let the Pentagon keep handling the issue by administrative regulation, remained set on enacting a tough policy in statute. "Congress will vote on this issue one way or the other," Nunn said, voicing a hope that testimony will enable the committee to draw up legislation later this 'week "consistent with the policy announced by the president." It Two bombs explode in North Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland Two bombs exploded outside the homes of mem-. bers of a Catholic-based political party on Tuesday, but no one was hurt, police An outlawed Protestant paramilitary group claimed -vvV Germany may send 1,700 to Somalia BONN, Germany The government decided Tuesday to forge ahead with plans to deploy 1,700 soldiers in volatile Somalia, resisting calls to halt what many Germans oppose as a risky mission. The Cabinet agreed that shirking a commitment to the United Nations would badly damage Germany's international image, chief government spokesman Dieter Vogel 'said.

Major in trouble over EC treaty LONDON Nine months after staking his political credibility on European union and surviving by three votes, Prime Minister John Major is back in political peril over the treaty. His Conservative government is furiously twisting arms and courting Northern Ireland Protestants to win a House of Commons vote on the Maastricht union treaty Thursday. From wire reports AP photo FINAL JOURNEY Iowa National Guardsmen carry the casket of Sgt. Steven West who was electrocuted while performing flood duties. good soldiers," Powell told Sen.

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