Word: hatters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...District Judge Terry Hatter Jr., sitting in Los Angeles, wants to know why the Navy's ban on homosexuals is still in place eight months after he declared it unconstitutional. He has instructed Defense Secretary Les Aspin, along with the Secretary of the Navy and the commanding officer of a Bay Area naval air station, to explain themselves in a court hearing this week or be held in contempt...
Discussion ranged from President Clinton's attention to the gay community to Federal District Judge Terry Hatter Jr.'s's recent decision--which is under appeal--that the Navy should reinstate a gay sailor who had been discharged...
...armed services, and constituents who have been deluging Congress with mail and phone calls. The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold extensive hearings; chairman Sam Nunn helped negotiate the interim compromise but announced that he still favors keeping the ban. On Thursday Los Angeles Federal District Judge Terry Hatter ruled that excluding homosexuals from military service "in the absence of sexual conduct which interferes with the military mission" is unconstitutional. So even if Congress eventually reverses an Executive Order allowing gays in the military and then musters the two-thirds majority necessary to override a Clinton veto, its action would...
...following a bitter court battle, Petty Officer Keith Meinhold managed to regain his Navy job at Moffett Field Naval Air Station in Mountain View, California. The 12-year veteran had been discharged in August after announcing he was gay on national TV. When U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. ordered the Navy to take Meinhold back the first time, the Navy balked. But after Hatter reaffirmed his order, Acting Secretary of the Navy Sean O'Keefe decided to comply. Meinhold's reinstatement is temporary, pending the outcome of a trial on his challenge to the Pentagon...
...fight scenes (Whap! Zonk! Boof! flashing across the screen), the show was pretty one-dimensional. Batman was good and noble, Robin was good and dorky. Together, the two foiled the mischievous intentions of a host of stock bad guys: Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, etc. (In a rare appearance, the Mad Hatter was featured in the show...