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"The antiwar movement in this country during the Vietnam era was a party compared to what will happen if the Reagan administration holds out any longer," said Steve Norris, a member of Vecino, an organization that sends medical aid to Nicaragua.
News Editor for This Issue: Brooke A. Masters '89 Night Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 Emily M. Bernstein '90 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Seth A. Gitell '91 Brooke A. Masters '89 Features Editor: Brooke A. Masters '89 Editorial Editor: David J. Barron '89 Photo Editor: David...
Last week a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California dismayed the Reagan Administration by doing just that in the nettlesome debate of the military vs. homosexuals. In 1980 the court upheld the Navy's discharge of three people accused of homosexual conduct. In...
What made Watkins' case different, said the judges, was that he was charged only with being gay, not with a specific act of sodomy. Wrote Norris: "Any attempt to criminalize the status of an individual's sexual orientation would present grave constitutional problems." Watkins has never denied his orientation. The...
Judges Norris and Canby refuted some commonly cited reasons for excluding gays, including hostility from other soldiers and a threat to morale. Wrote Norris: "Even granting special deference to the policy choices of the military, we must reject many of the Army's asserted justifications because they illegitimately cater to...