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While praising the book's analysis of antihomosexual sentiment, many gays reject its arguments. Self-acceptance is still a major hurdle for gay men and women, critics insist. But they are most riled by the suggestion that gays need to tone down and blend in: that would slash at the heart of the gay- rights movement, they charge. Says Sherrie Cohen of the Fund for Human Dignity: "We're for embracing diversity and for protecting the civil rights of anyone who is perceived as 'different.' " Toby Marotta, a sociologist in San Francisco, finds the book's thesis the same "homophile...
...resumption in Geneva of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the Soviet Union. On one critical issue, the President ruled out any compromise. The U.S. is prepared to abide by the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty for seven to ten years after a START agreement is ratified. The Soviets insist that even after that period, the U.S. should continue to refrain from deployment of SDI. Bush decided not to relax U.S. insistence on the ultimate right to install the system. He acted in part to avoid irritating his conservative supporters. But the Soviets say they will not agree to START without...
...dissidents, who refuse to recognize women priests, decided to act after the February consecration of Boston's Barbara Harris as the first woman Episcopal bishop. Synod members decry the church's liberalized teachings on such matters as divorce, abortion and homosexuality. They also insist that parishes be allowed to use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer instead of the modernized worship forms that the church approved in 1979. But unlike the small factions of tradition-minded members who walked out of the Episcopal Church in the late 1970s, the Synod stops short of making a dramatic split with the Episcopal...
...publishers are paying more, they are also demanding more for their money. The major houses today have both hardcover and paperback imprints. To increase their chances of making a profit, they often insist, with authors ranging from Paul Kennedy to Stephen King, on acquiring the right to print properties in both forms. As another type of economic protection, book companies are taking advantage of their growing international reach by more often asking for foreign rights to a book...
...reduce next year's defense budget 14% and disclosed that Moscow spent considerably more on the military than many of the Deputies suspected: about $130 billion a year, or some 9% of the Soviet Union's gross national product. Western leaders had long sought such an admission, but analysts insist that Gorbachev is still not leveling about defense layouts. Most think the military budget consumes somewhere between 12% and 16% of the country's GNP, and a few surmises go even higher. But Gorbachev's major concern remained his economic- reform program, stalled, he complained, by "inconsistency, indecision, halfheartedness, zigzagging...