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Last week the Defense Department struck back. Alameda County, which he ! represents, ranked No. 1 on the list of recommended military closings released by Defense Secretary Les Aspin last week. All five of the naval installations in Dellums' district will close, taking with them about 10,000 jobs and a $400 million payroll. The Alameda Naval Air Station, Alameda Naval Aviation Depot, Oakland Naval Hospital, the Oakland Naval Supply Center and the Naval Public Works Center in San Francisco are critical elements to the area's economy. The dense network of equipment and workers includes three nuclear-carrier berths, repair...
Panelist Joseph C. Steftan, a law student at the University of Connecticut who was discharged from the Naval Academy because of his sexual orientation, said prejudice against gays should be compared to other historical examples of discrimination...
Before deciding to use information from graduates of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, Paffenbarger also examined other schools such as the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis...
...vote was a setback not just for Jackson but for Bill Clinton as well. During the presidential campaign, Clinton said he'd change the policy. Jackson plans to continue his fast, which was inspired by the more than 200 Haitians at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are also shunning food in protest. Meanwhile, bad news keeps rolling in for Haitians. In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees traveling...
...would a man who had been frequently taunted with calls of "faggot" and "queer," who had been harassed because of his sexual preference, who feared being attacked by fellow sailors and who was soon to be released from military service make a homosexual advance on another naval officer...