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Court rules Navy can't discharge officer just for revealing he's gay
A federal appeals court ruled the armed forces can't bar homosexuals based solely on their statements that they are gay -- a move that could chip away at the Clinton Administration's ostrich-like "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a...
The man who killed four and wounded 21 at a Spokane, Washington, Air Force base yesterday apparently acted in revenge for his discharge from the military on the grounds of mental instability, it was reported today. One of the first he killed yesterday during his rampage was the psychiatrist who...
Her subsequent discharge from the armed forces in 1992 attracted headlines around the country and eventually helped persuade the Clinton Administration to change its policy on gays in the military last year. At the time, her superiors fought her ouster; on the day of her departure, her commanding officer wept...
The battle, if not the war. Zilly's decision was the seventh lower-court ruling against the old military rules on homosexuality; and, like several of the other decisions, it has implications for the new regulations negotiated by Bill Clinton and Senator Sam Nunn last summer. The events that led...