Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week in the cavernous hearing room of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sam Nunn was again belaboring the proposed regulation on homosexuals in the military. The Senator from Georgia wanted to nail down exactly what sorts of statements by a soldier would trigger a "rebuttable presumption" that he or she was engaged in gay conduct -- a legal finding that, despite its name, experts say is almost impossible to rebut...
...immediately by his Armed Services Committee and very likely to become law. Devoid of many of Clinton's ambiguous locutions, it continued the substantive war Nunn had waged in the hearings. While sparing the President's distinction between orientation and conduct, it eliminated even the faintest possibility that a soldier could admit gay orientation, in public or private. It dropped a clause promising "equal enforcement" among straights as well as gays of a military code of conduct that forbids acts of sodomy. And there was one major difference: although Nunn did not return to the pre-January policy of asking...
...living room provides the only warmth on cold days. The seven children huddle together under a thin, frayed blanket. Sometimes they play word games, but mostly they just sit and listen to a car radio hooked up to an old battery. The most popular song of the day is "Soldier of Happiness." It goes...
...soldier of happiness...
...tell, don't pursue" won't work. The Administration is really after a policy that says, "We don't want to know," but it is inevitable that commanders will learn that some troops are gay without ever asking or being told -- and that a homosexual soldier will test the regulation in court. If the military adopts "Don't ask, don't tell" but is successful in keeping the language that states, "Homosexuality is incompatible" with service, it would be illogical to permit gays to serve even if their sexual preference were concealed. Changing the current wording to incorporate the idea...