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Assuming it's true, it is difficult to accept Helvey's excuse as justification for murder. If death is a legitimate punishment for sexual harassment, then the male naval officers who stripped, groped and molested women at the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas deserve...
...lest either Clinton or the bigoted defenders of the status quo think that ignoring the question of gay troops will make it disappear, the story of Allen Schindler should make them think again. Schindler, a 22-year-old naval radio operator, was brutally murdered by a fellow sailor a month after he revealed his homosexuality to his commanding officer...
Schindler's story is unique only in the magnitude of its horror. The harassment he experienced while he was awaiting a discharge for being gay is hardly unusual. But Schindler's punishment for his sexual orientation was death: On the night of October 27, 1992, at a U.S. naval base in Japan, Airman Apprentice Terry Helvey fatally battered him against the toilet fixtures of a public restroom...
...Helvey's excuse for murder is as implausible as it is untenable. Before his death, Schindler had complained to friends and American entertainers whom he met at the naval base that he had been the victim of increasing harassment as word of his homosexuality had spread. In his personal journal, he had also expressed fears of being attacked...
Somewhere between the heavenly promise of America and the hellish reality of Haiti lies a way station on the Cuban coast called Guantanamo Bay. There, at a U.S. naval base, more than 200 Haitians have languished in tin-roofed barracks for up to 17 months, surrounded by wire fences and plagued by banana rats. Last year the Bush Administration ruled that they had plausible claims for political asylum. But because most of them tested positive for the AIDS virus, they are barred from the U.S. Suspicious of their captors and even their doctors, many have staged a hunger strike...