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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon's own studies raise doubts about the policy, the armed forces have long banned homosexuals, arguing that they undermine morale and could be vulnerable to blackmail. Last week U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch came up with a new reason for excluding them in a ruling upholding the U.S. Naval Academy's treatment of Joseph Steffan, who was forced to resign in 1987 after his commanders heard he was gay. It was the need to protect soldiers and sailors from AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: the Military: Keeping the Navy Straight: Keeping the Navy Straight | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...appetite for men and materiel, the armed forces find they cannot sustain themselves. They have struggled through five years of political disparagement and military failure, and they have watched their privileges and perks dwindle away. Now "the collapse is finally happening," says Dr. Patrick Parker, an analyst at the Naval Postgraduate School in California. "The economic destruction of the Soviet Union is having a massive effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despair in The Barracks | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...District Judge C. Clyde Atkins extended his ban on forcible repatriation of the boat people. Since September, when the military ousted Haiti's first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted 6,442 Haitians. Most are now living in camps at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees: Reprieve for The Haitians | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

Responding to the needs of the more than 5,000 Haitians who have fled their country in recent weeks to seek asylum in the U.S., the military has begun constructing an emergency refugee camp at the American naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. By the end of last week a task force had set up some 135 tents to shelter the 4,000 Haitians languishing aboard U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels that had rescued them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: Welcome to The Camp: Welcome to The Camp | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

Sunday at the Naval Academy, incredible performances were turned in by senior Co-Captain, Tom Peterson and freshman Tim Carver. Peterson broke the pool record in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:01.92 which placed him in consideration for the NCAAs...

Author: By Justin R.P. Ingersoll, | Title: Aquamen Making Ripples | 12/5/1991 | See Source »

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