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...document, produced by a panel chaired by New York City's Bishop Richard Grein, uses carefully vague language aimed at mollifying conservatives. Yet it avoids endorsing a 1979 resolution, flouted by liberal bishops, that opposes the ordination of sexually active gays and affirms "marital fidelity and sexual chastity as the standards of Christian sexual morality." The new paper asks clergy ordinations to follow unspecified church norms and priests to set an undefined "wholesome example." The report also says the "fullest potential" for sex occurs within "faithful and committed lifelong unions between mature adults" but pointedly omits mention of heterosexual matrimony...
Using such tradecraft, Polyakov obtained more than 100 issues of the classified version of Military Thought, a strategy document produced monthly by the Soviet general staff. The periodical contained frank assessments by leading Soviet military strategists. Said Robert Gates, a career Soviet analyst and CIA director for President Bush: "There were a lot of debates at the time over Soviet military strategy and doctrine in terms of how their forces would be used in a war." Polyakov's purloined documents "gave us insights into how they talked to each other about these issues, whether they thought that victory...
...House approved a Clinton Administration-backed bill to give benefits to vets with "Gulf War syndrome," rolling over reservations from Pentagon officials and doctors who said they couldn't document the flu-like illness's cause. The legislation, soon to come before the Senate, also provides $15 million for medical research and $50 million for counseling for Gulf War veterans and their families. More than 700 U.S. troops have reported symptoms that include fatigue, hair loss and intestinal and respiratory problems. Suspected causes include the oil fires set by Iraqi forces in Kuwait during the 1991 war and immunizations given...
...This document has additional information, butthe overall commentary continues the same advocacyresearch," Porter said...
Still, one document leaked as the hearings were about to begin begged new questions about what Bentsen and other Treasury officials knew and when they knew it. In a memo from Hanson dated Sept. 30 that is in the hands of congressional probers,she writes of press inquiries about the investigation and continues, "I have spoken with the Secretary ((Bentsen)) and also Bernie Nussbaum," who was then White House counsel. The investigation, into the failure of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, which was owned by Clinton friend and Whitewater partner James McDougal, was conducted by the Resolution Trust Corporation, a federal...