Word: nunn
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...DeConcini of Arizona have made it clear that they cannot support the President. Of the six other Democratic votes up for grabs, Clinton must win three. Louisiana's Bennett Johnston voted against the package in June, and the White House expects him to do so again. Georgia's Sam Nunn, who has been a thorn in Clinton's side for weeks on the issue of gays in the military, hasn't been sounding any more supportive on the budget. "The package is not making a whole lot of economic sense," Nunn said. But a senior Senate aide had another interpretation...
...chagrin Nunn's revision caused Clinton, who endorsed it later on Friday, it made little difference to the future hopes and strategies of Stoddard and his allies, which are firmly -- if perhaps vainly -- pinned to the court system...
...constitutional challenge to Nunn's policy will employ either the First Amendment's free-speech guarantees or the Fifth and 14th Amendments' support of equal protection under the law. The government is already prepared to defend its policy against Clinton's old allies in the gay civil rights movement. In a memorandum to the President early last week that defended the new regulations as constitutional, Janet Reno wrote that First Amendment challenges by gays would probably be rejected by the courts because "the policy is not directed at speech or expression itself," but, presumably, at the habits the speech suggested...
...Rights Project from initiating a class-action suit against the Department of Defense on First and Fifth Amendment grounds this week, in anticipation of the policy's October introduction. Some of the plaintiffs will allow themselves to be named. Others have elected to remain anonymous -- hoping to challenge Sam Nunn's rebuttable presumption without affording their military employers an opportunity to clobber them with...
...groups vow to fight the Nunn-Clinton military policy...