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Last week the Pentagon took a step toward making better sense of a woman's place in the military. Based on the recommendations of a special task force, Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci ordered a series of reforms that will open up 4,000 Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force posts previously unavailable to women. While not abandoning the exclusionary rule, "we will now go as far as we can within these legislative constraints," explains David Armor, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel, who headed the task force. "We're developing a clear rationale for opening...
...economy, the briefly integrated assemblage filed out to reconvene as usual in three separate chambers. And though the government has proposed that joint sessions be held periodically, the colored House of Representatives and its leader, the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, have rejected the proposal as a cosmetic half step. The dispute is only the latest confrontation between Botha and Hendrickse, 60, a portly, goateed former Congregational minister. Says Hendrickse: "P.W. Botha is the sort of person who does not give...
...addicts with sterile needles. The controversial program, which could begin as early as this spring, has sparked vehement protests from law-enforcement agents, clergymen and politicians. Says the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem: "To distribute needles is to cooperate with evil. It is a step to legitimatizing heroin...
This year the intensified coverage of Iowa, by both national and local correspondents, let the rest of the nation take Iowa for what it is--the first step in a long nomination process...
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Gorbachev's statement "sounds like a positive step and we hope it is, but we need to see the fine print. We've got to know what it means...