Examples of using Aspin in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Aspin looked like a sound choice to manage this change.
On Dec. 15, Clinton announced that Aspin had resigned for personal reasons.
Aspin rejected this demand and announced that the United States would suspend plans to withdraw its troops gradually from the peninsula.
These positions, along with the assumption that Aspin would work toward a substantial cut in the Defense budget, worried the military.
Aspin also had to consider the question of health problems of U.S. service personnel who participated in the action against Iraq.
Like his predecessors Carlucci and Cheney, Aspin faced the perennial issue of base closures, which could also affect the Defense budget.
Aspin was elected as a Democrat to the 92nd and to the 11 succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1971, until his resignation January 20, 1993.
Before his election as a Democrat to Congress in 1970, Aspin had been active in Wisconsin politics and had taught economics at Marquette University.
The conclusions of the bottom-up review influenced the development of the FY 1994 Defense budget,although detailed work on the budget had begun as soon as Aspin took office.
As it turned out, Aspin faced difficulties from the beginning.
The problem of how to deal with a large projected Defense budget shortfall for the period 1995- 2000,an issue that weakened Aspin and contributed to his resignation, persisted when Perry took office.
In May 1993 Aspin announced"the end of the Star Wars era," explaining that the collapse of the Soviet Union had determined the fate of SDI.
While seeking solutions to the complex budget andforce structure issues, Aspin found himself beset with difficult regional problems and conflicts that demanded decisions and action.
Furthermore, Aspin was on record as favoring the use of U.S. troops in regional conflicts, as opposed to other decisionmakers, including General ColinPowell, chairman of the JCS.
At that time, confronting criticism at home that the United States was getting more deeply involved in thefactional violence in Somalia without a clear rationale, Aspin explained that U.S. troops would remain until order had been restored in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, progress had been made in disarming rival clans, and effective police forces were operating in the country's major cities.
Aspin did not favor using ground forces to intervene in the civil war involving the Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, and Croats, but thought that the use of sophisticated weapons was a more reasonable option.
In September 1993, General Powell asked Aspin to approve the request of the U.S. commander in Somalia for tanks, armored vehicles and AC-130 Spectre gunships for his forces.
Aspin did not favor using ground forces to intervene in the civil war involving the Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, and Croats, but thought that using high technology weapons such as cruise missiles might be a feasible option.
Because of the growing threat of regional conflicts, Aspin wanted to have a strong capability to carry out limited military operations, including peacekeeping, and to maintain"a strong peacetime presence of U.S. forces around the world.".
Aspin had declared an end to the Strategic Defense Initiative program, but long-standing supporters both inside and outside of Congress called for its resurrection, especially when the Defense budget came up.
Perry also inherited from Aspin the problem of what to do about Haiti, where a military junta continued to refuse to reinstate the deposed president, Jean Bertrande Aristide.
Some observers attacked Aspin for not taking a harder stand in the administration against an action he opposed and then aborting the effort in the face of local opposition.
Shortly after he took office, Aspin discussed dangers that had emerged with the end of the Cold War: the uncertainty that reform could succeed in the former Soviet Union;
The bottom-up review report, which Aspin released in September 1993, took into account strategy formulation, force structure, weapon systems modernization, and Defense infrastructure.
Two months later Aspin received a report on the U.S. military performance during the 1991 Gulf War, the result of a study undertaken by the House Armed Services Committee when he chaired it.
In the face of severe congressional criticism, Aspin admitted that in view of what had happened he had made a mistake, but stated that the request for armored equipment had been made within the context of delivering humanitarian aid to Somalia rather than protecting troops.
During his confirmation hearings Aspin indicated that he would take action quickly, and on entering office he presented a plan to the president to discuss the matter with Congress and the JointChiefsofStaff and presented a timetable leading to an order dealing with the matter.
