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...federal government is easing its ban on giving security clearances to gays, according to a Congressional General Accounting Office report. Federal agencies for years had denied such clearances to homosexuals on the assumption that all gays were at risk of being blackmailed. The GAO said today that it reviewed records for contractors and civilians from eight agencies and found homosexuality was no longer a criterion for granting security clearances. Six of those agencies have written policies that prohibit asking clearance applicants about their sexual orientation. The Defense Department and the Secret Service said sexual orientation is no longer a criterion...
...Given the combined spending levels above what is budgeted annually, it is now clear that the District of Columbia will run out of cash by this summer," the GAO report reads. "In fact, today the District of Columbia is insolvent...
...with regular maintenance and, as a result, public concern is growing that "some school buildings may be unsafe or even harmful to children's health." As an example, schools need $11 billion just for lead abatement that complies with federal standards. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) requested the GAO study and sponsored legislation authorizing $100 million for school repairs in the 1996 fiscal year...
...tanks and a guided-missile destroyer; Ankara received 28 AH-1 helicopter gunships, 822 M-60 tanks and 72 self-propelled howitzers. Strangely, few of the beneficiaries of the largesse take advantage of the chance to view the gear before delivery. "Many countries," the General Accounting Office (GAO) notes, "decline the offer because they cannot afford the travel costs associated with the inspections...
...largely paid for by the U.S. as part of its foreign- assistance obligations. And some taxpayers pay with their jobs: the U.S. is the only nation that allows countries buying its weapons with its money to demand that some of the resulting work be done in their country. The GAO recently found that $11.6 billion in U.S. arms sales led to $4.7 billion in "offsets" that required labor to be done in the purchasing nations. Those demands, funded in part by the U.S., eliminated an unknown number of American jobs...