This Week (ABC) - 1996-05-26 - 1 of 2

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[0:00] transferred to another city?

[0:01] >> What if I need to lose some weight? What

[0:02] if I need an X-ray?

[0:03] >> What if I need a new doctor?

[0:06] >> What if my baby comes through?

[0:08] >> What if I need blood?

[0:09] >> What if I break my arm?

[0:10] >> What if there were a healthcare

[0:11] organization with such innovative

[0:13] solutions to what you might need

[0:14] tomorrow that all you'd have to do is

[0:16] enjoy today?

[0:17] >> What if my brother makes me a bug?

[0:19] >> What if you didn't have to worry about

[0:20] healthcare? Blue Cross. Blue Shield.

[0:25] >> Shelving Porn tonight at 6 on Town Hall.

[0:31] from ABC News.

[0:36] This week with David Brinkley. Now from

[0:40] Washington, David Brinkley.

[0:43] >> After generations of success in peace

[0:46] and war, the US Navy has now had a

[0:49] continuing series of ugly episodes.

[0:53] abusing and molesting women, cheating on

[0:55] tests, dealing drugs, stealing cars,

[0:59] losing men in accidents with the F-14

[1:01] fighters, and even the suicide of the

[1:04] Chief of Naval Operations. So much of

[1:07] this that even after 5 years of

[1:09] controversy and ruined careers, it still

[1:12] humiliates the Navy.

[1:14] So much so it has even felt a need to

[1:16] deny the speculation that with so much

[1:19] turmoil it is diminished as a fighting

[1:22] force. So what happens now? We'll ask

[1:25] our guests. John White, Deputy Secretary

[1:29] of Defense,

[1:31] Representative Patricia Schroer,

[1:33] Democrat, Colorado of the Committee on

[1:35] National Security,

[1:37] and John Layman, former Secretary of the

[1:40] Navy.

[1:41] and our discussion here with Sam

[1:43] Donaldson,

[1:45] George Will,

[1:47] and Ki Roberts, including a look at our

[1:50] increasingly scruffy campaign for

[1:52] president. All her

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