Word: unite
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...effectiveness of the U.S. armed forces depends on unit cohesion and high morale. Ending the ban on gays would undermine both of these crucial foundations of military success. Military life involves residing in close quarters often for long periods of time. In the field men must share tiny tents and foxholes with their fellow soldiers. The experience of foriegn militaries that have admitted homosexuals has shown that forcing heterosexuals to share living quarters with homosexuals would be greatly damaging to morale...
This effect would also undermine unit cohesion. According to military experts the distrust and anxiety homosexuals would create would make it difficult for a unit to act as a team in a combat situation. Individual soldiers would not feel they could always depend on their homosexual counterparts in dangerous situations. These soldiers would be less willing to take the risks necessary to succeed in combat. As a result, American soldiers could die needlessly, helpless guinea pigs in a social experiment gone wrong...
...Juppe convened a crisis team, while Interior Minister Charles Pasqua met with aides long into the night. The first objective of the French was to persuade the Algerians to allow the elite National Gendarmes Intervention Group (G.I.G.N.) to provide "technical" assistance for a raid on the plane. The antiterrorist unit had been put on alert shortly after the plane's seizure. At 8 p.m. on Dec. 24, some nine hours after the Airbus was taken, about 40 G.I.G.N. troopers took off from a military base near Paris aboard an Air France Airbus A300, identical to the one that had been...
...running a fever. It was the beginning of a long weekend, and I called the UHS urgent care clinic. I was escorted by car to UHS, where I was examined and admitted with comfort and efficiency. I spent two nights in the Stillman infirmary hooked up to an intravenous unit. My doctor came to check on me every day that weekend, explained what I had and told me how we would remedy it. It was as pleasant a stay as I have ever had in a hospital. I found that every action taken was competent, justified and driven...
...Vernon E. Carter, who lives in a rent-controlled apartment in Cambridge, says he'll be able to keep his unit because of his advanced age. But he worries about the impact of the rent control's loss on students and other renters...