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...bombers by the end of the century; the House action would halt production at the 15 aircraft previously authorized. In cutting Star Wars spending to $3.5 billion from the Administration's requested $5.2 billion, the House freed money for more conventional weapons. The measure also authorized servicewomen to have abortions in military clinics, at their own expense, and cleared female pilots to fly combat missions at the discretion of their services. All these issues are likely to be decided differently when the Senate produces its bill, but Bush and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney have both warned of a presidential veto...
...forward and strike down the 1988 regulations. Earlier this year, Congressmen Wyden of Oregon and John Porter, an Illinois Republican, introduced legislation designed to do just that. Prospects for their bill were enhanced by the House's passage last week of a defense-spending package that would allow U.S. servicewomen to obtain abortions in overseas military hospitals at their own expense. But even if Congress did pass the Wyden-Porter bill, it would face an almost certain Bush veto and another protracted political battle that would promise to carry into the 1992 elections...
...only one manifestation of the need to scapegoat. Xenophobia and racism are also used to dehumanize, and thus to scapegoat the enemy. Misogyny, with its unmitigated assertion of superiority and justification of violence, is widespread--witness the incidence of rape as an act of war, the harassment of servicewomen within the forces, and the exclusion of women from combat positions that give access to higher rank and higher pay. Classism is blatant in the rank system and in the economic backgrounds of people who fill those ranks. Homophobia is only one example of oppressive forces that are at work...
...indicts Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega on a wide range of drug charges. -- Unrealistically low campaign- spending limits present candidates with some curious moral and logistical quandaries. -- It is no < longer this man' s Army, as the Pentagon moves to expand opportunities for servicewomen...
...nine-page study noted that "abusive behavior toward all women is not only passively accepted and condoned but encouraged." In the predominantly male environment, the committee reported, the servicewomen have few recreational facilities where they can avoid "being humiliated and feeling denigrated as human beings...