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...path to the stars, especially those worn on uniforms, was opened last week. Defense Secretary Les Aspin ordered all the services to remove restrictions on women flying combat aircraft and said he would ask Congress to lift the ban on women serving aboard warships at sea. The change has long been visible on the horizon, but it was hurried along by a Navy eager to do something to smooth the choppy wake left by its official report on Tailhook. As the damaging document was readied for release two weeks ago, Navy brass quietly assured servicewomen at the Pentagon that...
Hill said that, at the present time, no actual disruption of the ceremonies is planned. "Having people lift their mortarboards with the stickers and chanting 'lift the ban' may be seen as disruptive by some," she said...
...Mixner, the decision to speak up was painful but inescapable. As a practicing politician, he was less surprised than other gay leaders by the postelection outcry against Clinton's proposal to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military, which caused barely a murmur during the campaign. Rather than demand that the President sign an Executive Order as pledged, Mixner collaborated with the White House in shaping a compromise...
...calls were not returned. When he spoke at a gay- oriented church and agreed to appear on ABC's Nightline, a White House aide tried to scare him off with implicit threats of ostracism. But at a subsequent meeting with gay leaders, Clinton left them optimistic that he would lift...
Bill Clinton, apostle of the new and different, a President who has already proved Machiavelli's assertion, asks to be judged by the toughest standard imaginable. Throughout the campaign, Clinton routinely promised a first 100 days reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's action-filled three-month push to lift America from the Great Depression. No matter that the F.D.R. yardstick is arbitrary -- and even foolish given the blessed lack of a galvanizing crisis like the one America faced in 1933. "I think it's been a very productive 100 days . . . we've made terrific progress," White House press secretary...