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...British military opposed homosexuals serving openly. Before Canada lifted its ban more than 60 percent of its troops said they would refuse to share facilities with gay men. Neither country has had a problem with the policy shift. Military disapproval isnt enough; we need to continue to cast all leftist ideas as impractical and extremist. The Universitys response to the Solomon Amendment perfectly fits this mold...
...counseling a kid who, after the third session, referred to his "partner." "And I said, 'Oh, you're gay.' And he said, 'No. I only fall in love with guys, but I'm not "gay." It doesn't have anything to do with me.' He saw being gay as leftist, radical." At Exodus' Youth Day, I met several young gays who spoke of the need to "walk out of" homosexuality because, as a 25-year-old from Boston put it, "I'm not happy going to the clubs anymore," as if being gay were mostly about partying. Frank Carrasco...
...holed up in an army barracks near the city of Cordoba, some 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Barreiro had just been cashiered for refusing to obey a civilian court subpoena to answer charges of human-rights atrocities committed in the 1970s during the army's war against alleged leftist subversives. Now, angered by the ongoing human-rights prosecutions, he and his fellow rebels were demanding amnesty for all accused officers...
...vote in parliament on July 1 - but at least two parliamentary deputies plan to challenge Köhler's decision in the Constitutional Court. If the election does take place, conventional wisdom is that Schröder will lose. A poll by Election Research Group confirmed that the new leftist alliance - Linkspartei.pds, a coalition of disgruntled left-wingers and eastern German reformed communists - is polling 12% nationally. It's also the strongest party in the east, at 34%. The conservative cdu and its sister party, the csu, are running at 44% nationally, compared to 24% for the ruling...
...voice of the Arab world, Telesur (sur is Spanish for "south") aspires to be the medium through which Latin Americans see their news and culture. Some 70% of its $2.5 million seed money has been put up by oil-rich Venezuela and its flamboyant President, Hugo Chávez--whose leftist, often anti-U.S. agenda includes increased Latin American integration and a rejection of Yanqui-based TV like CNN en Espańol. "U.S. and European networks offer a good product, but they tend to view Latin America in black-and-white terms--and usually black, like disasters," argues Uruguayan-born...