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...divorce in 1986, was owed one-third of Gastineau's forfeited salary -- more than $100,000 -- because the footballer had "wasted" a marital asset. Nielsen, the mother of Gastineau's 19-month-old son, has left him to pursue her film career. Gastineau, once bent on being a professional boxer, is reportedly seeking work as a sportscaster...
...1830s, Christian missionaries thought they saw an opportunity to carry Western religion to millions of Chinese. American church members supported the missionary effort with their contributions, but the results fell well short of their hopes. Clergymen in China were the targets of repeated antiforeign campaigns, and during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, hundreds of missionaries and thousands of converts were killed...
...proposed law that would excuse one parent from the front lines in the event married soldiers with children are both called to serve. Cheney's position prompted the sponsor of the Military Orphans Prevention bill to remind him about his own history as a noncombatant. California Congresswoman Barbara Boxer points out that Cheney received a deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1966 because his wife Lynne was pregnant. "You . . . felt that your wife and soon-to-be-born child needed you," Boxer wrote Cheney last week. "Our bill . . . is not even that generous...
Critics of the Pentagon policy charge that neither military parents nor their children need suffer so much grief. Last month Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and Democratic Representative Barbara Boxer of California introduced similar gulf-orphan legislation. Their bills would allow single parents, or one parent in the case of a military couple with minor children, to decline a war-zone assignment. Military officials would choose which parent to exempt in the case of a couple...
...measures build on long-standing military regulations that spare from combat anyone who is a sole surviving child or whose closest relatives have been killed in battle. Says Boxer: "This is a volunteer army, but these are not volunteer children. They took no part in any decision that may leave them without parents." The Pentagon says it opposes the measures. But as the prospect of a costly ground war grows, the matter could become an emotional issue on Capitol Hill...