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GOP hopeful announces &20 billion military budget, rev,
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Promising a “new ar
chitecture of American defense,” Republican pres
idential candidate George W. Bush said yesterday
he would spend $20 billion more on futuristic
weapons research, build a national defense
against ballistic missiles as quickly as possible and
cut back on overseas peacekeeping by American
troops.
Speaking at The Citadel military academy in
Charleston, S.C., Bush accused the Clinton ad
ministration of breaking faith with service men
and women by deploying them too frequently and
paying them too little.
He said the administration has failed to use
America’s technological prowess to create a more
lethal and mobile military.
“The last seven years have been wasted in in
ertia and idle talk,” Bush, who served in the Texas
Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, said.
Bush, who holds a large lead in the polls, said
the Clinton administration had weakened the na
tion’s defenses by embarking on “vague, endless
and aimless” missions abroad.
As president, Bush said, he would order a top-
to-bottom review of the military — its structure,
strategy and spending priorities — and give his
secretary of defense a mandate: “Challenge the
status quo and envision a new architecture of
American defense for decades to come.”
The Texas governor spoke to an overflow au
dience of about 600, including about 400 cadets
in gray uniforms. Several cadets pumped their
fists in the air as he was introduced.
“With that kind of reception, you’ve got
amnesty,” Bush told the cadets. “I don’t care what
the general says. ”
Bush’s address — part of a series of speeches
designed to spell out his presidential agenda — is
an answer to critics who say Bush is not ready to
be president and that his views on public policy
are undeveloped.
A spokesperson for Vice President A1 Gore,
who is seeking the Democratic nomination, made
light of Bush’s foreign policy credentials and his
history of confusing names of countries. “The
governor’s foreign policy expertise begins with
Slovenia and ends with Slovakia, and even these
have proven to be too much of a challenge,” Chris
Lehane said.
Many of Bush’s prescriptions for a healthier
military are similar to those pursued by President
Clinton, including pay raises for troops and inno
vations to make U.S. forces more adaptable and
easier to deploy on short notice.
Their differences are mainly a matter of degree.
Bush, for example, would spend $5 billion more
on pay raises over the coming five years, and he
would commit more quickly to deploying a na
tional defense against missile attack.
“The last seven
years have been
wasted in inertia
and idle talk.”
- GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH
“At the earliest possible date,” his administra
tion would deploy anti-missile systems to protect
not only U.S. troops abroad and allies but also to
shield the U.S. homeland from “attack and black
mail.”
He did not spell out how extensive the national
system would be, but aides said it would be more
complete than Clinton envisions.
The Clinton administration plans to decide as
early as June 2000 whether to deploy a limited
national defense system.
Bush said he would have the United States
withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile
Tteaty with Russia if Moscow refused to accept
amendments allowing the testing and deploy
ment of a national missile defense.
The Clinton administration is pressing
Moscow to accept such changes and has said
withdrawal from the treaty remains an option.
A key distinction emphasized by Condoleeza
Rice, the candidate’s top foreign-polio.
Bush’s intent to move the military
War-era structure by emphasizingini»
next-generation technologies.
Bush said, for example, that hevvoi
at least 20 percent of the Pentagon’s we
curement budget for programs that pi
ica “generations ahead” in militarytec
He mentioned such possibilities as
ship” packed with long-range missile
manned aircraft capable of long-rar;
strikes.
Bush said he would commit an
lion to defense research and develi
tween 2001 and 2006.
That would be in addition to theapr
$173 billion the Clinton administratic
posed over a similar period.
Responding to Bush’s speech, Da
chief spokesperson for the White Hi
tional Security Council, said it wasw
the administration had overused thei
“The president has made one of h
tional security priorities making sun
armed forces are the best-trained, be
best-equipped fighting force in thewi
said, adding that the ad ministration hi
the first sustained increase in overa
spending since the late 1980s.
Bush said one of his first priorities w:
“renew the bond of trust” between the
and the military. Clinton, he said, hasun
morale by using today's smaller militan
for open-ended missions like the peaces
fort in Bosnia that began in 1995 and:
with no end in sight.
“Something has to give, and it’sg
said.
Bush said his administration woul
U.S. troop commitments abroad -ac
of long standing like South Korea and
with an eye toward an “orderly andtini
drawal" from Bosnia and Kosovo.
“We will not be permanent peacekei
viding warring parties,” he said. “Tki:
strength or our calling.”
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Texas Tech organization accused of discrimination
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LUBBOCK(AP) — They hoot
when the Red Raiders win and holler
like maniacs after a loss.
For 64 years, the rowdy and rau
cous Texas Tech University Saddle
TYamps have been known across
West Texas as a famed and exclusive
spirit club.
And as far back as anyone can
remember, the group has included
only men.
Then came Jennifer Slattery, the
first woman ever to apply for mem
bership.
The Saddle TVamps say she was
not denied admission this spring be
cause she is a woman, but the 50-
member group has applied for male-
only legal designation that would
exempt it from an anti-discrimina
tion law.
The controversy has evolved into
a case of tradition versus tolerance.
“I don’t know why they can’t just
go on like they’ve been going on,”
Rick Murray, a member of the orga
nization in 1957, said.
“I’m not sure why this issue al
ways has to come up. It even comes
up with the Boy Scouts.”
Ttamps executive board member
Matthew Hines would not comment
on why Slattery was kept from join
ing but said the group does not keep
women out.
• He said the group’s meeting are
private and that he is “not allowed
to discuss what goes on.”
“We have never discouraged fe
males from coming to rushes,”
Hines saidi “I have not noticed a lot
of females ever being interested in
joining. We’re a spirit organization
here and we suppprt male athletics.
“We have our own section in
Jones Stadium provided by the ath
letic department. We ring bells, do
chants and get everyone spirited.”
None of which cannot be done by
a woman, Slattery said.
“[Saddle Tramps] have
never discouraged
females from coming
to rushes/ 9
Matthew Hines
Tramps executive board member
“There really is no reason why a
woman shouldn’t be able to join,”
the Tech junior said. “If they get sin
gle-sex status, I don’t think it’s fair
they get my money or other females’
money.”
Tech officials said the Saddle
TVamps receive about $2,000 a year
in student fees.
School officials say the group
may not discriminate against
women — or anyone else — but
added there is no evidence Slattery
was excluded because of her sex.
“Apparently there had been some
incidents that occurred in which the
female student made comments
about the organization that made
them feel she wasn’t interested or
didn’t think much of the group,”
Mike Shonrock, Tech’s dean of stu
dents, said.
“If we had found they had dis
criminated they would no longer
be considered an official organiza
tion at Texas Tech. We take this
very seriously.”
Hines said the group has asked
the Internal Revenue Service to offi
cially recognize it as an all-male or
ganization, exempting it from the Ti
tle IX anti-discrimination law.
The designation would allow the
group to continue receiving public
money.
Jay Jacobsen, president of the
American Civil Liberties Union, said
the group being historically male is
no basis for an exemption.
“There has always been slavery;
There has always been segregation,”
Jacobsen said. “Those same argu
ments have always been made.
The idea that a public group’s
history will allow them to be ex
empt from discrimination laws is
ridiculous.
“If they receive public money and
make use of public resources then
they will have to let women join. Ti
tle IX specifically says you cannot ex
clude a student from a student ac
tivity on the basis of gender. ”
Hines said the only require
ments for joining are school spirit,
leadership skills and a 2.0 grade-
point average.
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