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...issue conducted by committee chairman Sam Nunn. "It's Nunn's dog-and-pony show," says Lieut. (j.g.) Tracy Thorne, a "Top Gun" navy bombardier who is being removed from active duty because of his homosexuality. "He's got the witness list totally skewed against those who want to lift the ban." When the Senate panel | toured the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Base last week to hear from the rank and file, 15 of the 17 witnesses supported the ban. Thorne claims that several straight officers and enlisted personnel had volunteered to testify in favor of lifting the ban but were...
Senator Sam Nunn's Senate Armed Services Committee resumed its hearings on gays in the military with a shrewd photo-op tour of bunks in cramped naval vessels. In a week of testimony that included pleas to lift the ban on gay servicemen and -women and assertions by retired Army General Norman Schwarzkopf that openly gay soldiers would undermine morale, the emotional high point was Marine Colonel Fred Peck's surprise declaration that he would discourage his son Scott -- "a recruiter's dream" -- from joining the military "because my son is a homosexual." Many Senators seemed inclined toward a tricky...
Japan tried -- and failed -- to have the International Whaling Commission temporarily lift a seven-year-old ban on whaling. Norway is expected to start ignoring...
...American Civil Liberties Union, the Fenway Community Health Center, the Lavender Political Alliance, Operation Lift the Ban and Queer Nation are planning "a rally in Harvard Square in between the morning and afternoon ceremonies," said Michael D. O'Laughlin, a member of the Graduate School of Education Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Students and a member of the Commencement Pride Coalition...
...Yard, plans to distribute 7,000 balloons before Powell speaks, representing what they say are the number of gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers ejected from the military under Powell's tenure as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They also plan to distribute mortarboard stickers and to chant "Lift the ban" while Powell receives his honorary degree...