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WORLD & NATION
Thursday, February 2,1989
Tower confirmation hearings end
Defense Secretary-designate: ‘I am a man of some discipline’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense
Secretary-designate John Tower on
Wednesday denied he had a drink
ing problem or would be hampered
in his new job by past ties with mili
tary contractors.
“I’m a man of some discipline,”
Tower told the Senate Armed Serv
ices Committee near the close of
four days of testimony. The commit
tee chairman, Sen. Sam Nunn, D-
Ga., said he expected the panel to
vote Thursday to recommend that
the Senate confirm Tower’s nomi-
cising the duties and responsibilities
of his office, some of which are even
more sensitive and more critical than
the general public realizes.”
nation.
The committee began Wednesday
with a closed session to discuss possi
ble conflicts of interest involving
Tower and to allow him to answer al
legations made Tuesday by conser
vative activist Paul Weyrich that he
had “on a number of occasions” seen
Tower publicly inebriated and in the
company of women other than his
wife.
After the hearings. Tower said
little to reporters, describing himself
as “embargoed” until after confir
mation.
“I feel like I am glad it is the end
of the hearings,” he said as he left
the hall.
In open session, Nunn asked
Tower whether he had a drinking
problem.
“I have none,” Tower replied. “It
is essential that the secretary of de
fense be at all times capable of exer-
“Therefore I think there should
be zero toleration of anyone as secre
tary of defense or any other sensitive
job in the Defense Department who
has an alcohol problem,” Tower
said.
On the subject of women, Nunn
asked Tower whether he would tol
erate any sexual harassment in the
Defense Department.
“I will answer again with the term
‘zero tolerance’ for discrimination
against women, the sexual ha
rassment of women,” Tower re
sponded.
“I believe that professional
women should be afforded the re
spect and the deference that they de
serve,” he said. “I will say that I do
not believe women should serve in
combat slots.”
Nunn also read aloud a letter
from the White House counsel, C.
Boyden Gray, rebutfing a statement
Tuesday by Weyrich that President
Bush’s transition team received hun
dreds of letters, including some by
members of Congress, accusing
Tower of moral laxity.
“To the best of my knowledge, no
letters containing specific allegations
of impropriety concerning Senator
Tower were received by either the
transition office or the White
House” since the election, Gray
wrote.
Platoon sergeant found guilty
of negligence in soldier’s death
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A military judge on
Wednesday convicted a Marine platoon sergeant of
negligence in the death of a soldier who had been left
behind in the Mojave Desert during a training exercise
in August.
The judge, Maj. Kent Smith, ruled that Sgt. Christo
pher Clyde failed to properly account for the wherea
bouts and welfare of his Marines.
Clyde was the platoon sergeant of Lance Cpl. Jason
Rother, 19, of Minneapolis, Minn., who was left behind
during a night exercise Aug. 30 after being posted as a
road guide in the California desert. His remains were
found in December.
The sergeant was found innocent of willful disobedi
ence. He had been accused of failing to obey orders in
granting leave to Rother’s squad leader after the exer
cise, resulting in a delay in realizing Rother had been
left behind.
Clyde has maintained he did nothing wrong and that
he only relied on the instructions of his superiors. “If
he’s guilty of anything, he’s guilty of relying on other
people,” defense attorney William Fisher said in closing
arguments.
Prosecutor Robert Nunally had argued, “He screwed
up and he screwed up in a major way.”
New legislation would
expand health coverage,
reduce infant death rate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
Mickey Leland introduced legis
lation Wednesday to expand gov
ernment health coverage for low-
income pregnant women and in
fants in an effort to reduce the
nation’s “disturbing” infant mor
tality rate.
The package of reforms would
require the states to phase-in
Medicaid coverage by 1993 to
pregnant women and infants liv
ing at 185 percent of the poverty
level.
The reforms also would grad
ually expand Medicaid coverage
to children up to age 18 in fami
lies below 100 percent of the pov
erty level, now set at $9,700 for a
family of three.
“While infant mortality rates
have declined significantly since
1970, this trend has clearly stag
nated,” Leland, a Houston Demo
crat, said. “In some areas, both
rural and urban, infant deaths
have actually increased. In 1986,
39,000 babies died in the United
States.”
Sen. Bill Bradley, a New Jersey
Democrat and the legislation’s
sponsor in the Senate, said he
fears the nation will not meet the
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