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Military leaders denounce Clinton's plan to end the ban on gays, and some have called on congressional allies to help. Ordinary soldiers threaten to harass and hobble implementation or quit their posts en masse -- a tough vow to sustain amid a recession but politically explosive nonetheless. The Navy's...
But significantly, Lindsey's protest was within the Establishment: he fought to make his fraternity pledge a black friend (and resigned as a member when the national organization balked), and he fought to drop some curriculum requirements, arguing that academic standards in those courses were so low that students were...
To keep the deficit from growing larger, Clinton will have to ask the public to make sacrifices to pay for his programs. But he remains reluctant to bite that bullet. For example, Clinton has never said where he expects to find the billions that it would take to provide government...
IF YOU'RE OUT OF THE CLOSET, YOU'RE OUT OF THE service. For 50 years, that has been the firm rule of the U.S. military. But the day after Veterans Day, following a bitter court battle, Petty Officer Keith Meinhold managed to regain his Navy job at Moffett Field...
THE WINDS OF CHANGE -- AND MONEY -- SEEMED CERtain to lift the San Francisco Giants baseball team out of their drafty, weather-beaten stadium and carry them to a new air-conditioned dome and a $115 million buyout offer in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then the wind shifted. Baseball team owners voted...