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- From: hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell)
- Subject: Position papers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.004603.8918@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:46:03 GMT
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- The Christmas Eve edition of the Financial Times has just worked its way
- through the Japanese and SIngaporean postal systems. In it there is an
- article on Mr Les Aspin the new Secretary of Defence. This says
- ". . .Mr Aspin and his staff [on House armed services committee] -
- sometimes joined by his republican colleagues - have in the past year
- alone produced reports on post-cold war US force structure, the lessons of
- the Gulf War. . . and when to use force in conflicts such as those in
- Bosnia and Somalia. . ."
-
- Please excuse my ignorance of the US political machinery, and provide
- answers to the following questions:
- 1, Does the remark "sometimes joined by his Republican colleagues" imply
- what it seems to - viz, that on other occasions Republican members of the
- committe issued their own minority reports/ responses to Aspin & co.
-
- 2. Are these reports and counter reports part of the public record? Ie can
- non members of congress obtain copies?
-
- 3. How long are they likely to be? If available, how expensive?
-
- Happy New Year
-
- Richard Pennell, History NUS
-