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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department of Defense commissioned two reports over the last year to examine the extent to which gays were security risks--the reports came back stating that "having a same-gender orientation is unrelated to job performance in the same way as is being left-or right-handed," and concluded that homosexuals should be given admittance into the military should they meet the other requirements. The Pentagon's response? It "called the study 'unfortunate' and wrote that 'it has it has expended considerable government resources and has not assisted us one whit in our personnel security program." (Boston Globe, 10/29.) Though...
...Terri-Lynn Frasher, 16, had been taking a shower in her apartment; she was pinned under a sink and vanity when her walls collapsed. Gashed by a broken mirror, she was pulled naked from the building. "I can't even say I lost everything but the clothes on my back," she said wryly from her hospital bed. Isolated motorists died as their cars were lifted and hurled off roads...
...onto the Bay Bridge in an advance celebration of its weekend reopening. The 50-ft. section of the upper deck that collapsed during the quake had been repaired well ahead of schedule in a round-the-clock $2.5 million construction feat. California Governor George Deukmejian cheerily declared, "We're back, and we're in business again...
...episode is a reminder of the genteel anti-Semitism that has always been just below the surface and, in the current, more permissive climate, can come poking through," says Charles Gati, an expert on Eastern Europe at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Gati has found thinly disguised Jew baiting back in fashion in his native Hungary. One of the top-ranked soccer teams, MTK, was heavily financed by Jews in the 1930s before more than half of the Jewish community was murdered by the Nazis and their Hungarian offshoot, the Arrow Cross Party. Now, half a century later, the historical...
...Rumania the harsh regime of Nicolae Ceausescu sought to immunize itself from any hint of change by locking its borders with reformist Hungary. Travelers trying to cross at five border points were turned back, possibly to prevent any disruption of a party Congress this week. With the Soviet Union now encouraging the reforms that felled other hard-line rulers, the tyrannical Ceausescu last week turned to China for support in standing firm. The tide of reform is not likely to reach Bucharest so long as its despotic leader survives. Any Rumanian bold enough to speak out is beaten, harassed...