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...federal appeals court ruled the armed forces can't bar homosexuals based solely on their statements that they are gay -- a move that could chip away at the Clinton Administration's ostrich-like "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's reinstatement of Petty Officer Keith Meinhold, who had been denied re-enlistment after disclosing his homosexuality on television.Instead, only a statement that shows a "concrete, fixed or expressed desire to engage in homosexual acts despite their being prohibited" should be grounds for involuntary discharge. The ruling stopped short...
...North Carolina federal court upheld a 160-mile-long, serpentine-shaped congressional district designed to ensure a majority black electorate. In a headline-grabbing voting-rights opinion, the Supreme Court last year ordered that the district be re-examined. The latest decision, coming on the heels of a contrary Louisiana federal ruling that struck down another black district, virtually assures that the practice of racial gerrymandering will be reviewed by the high court once again...
...with DNA tests ongoing to determine if the blood splattered on Simpson's car and in his house matches that of Nicole and Ronald. "Looming on the horizon is an enormous forensic battle over DNA evidence," says TIME's Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante. DNA testing has been upheld by one California appeals court, but two others have
...reduced the field to Arnold, Babbitt and Breyer. Each had drawbacks. For Arnold, it was his health. He is under treatment for lymphoma, a form of cancer. He had also raised the suspicions of some women's groups with two of his opinions on the bench, one that upheld a parental-consent statute regarding teen abortions and another that permitted the Jaycees to exclude women. With Whitewater still an unresolved issue, there were also rumblings in the Senate about the propriety of the President bringing to Washington another of his friends from Arkansas. For good measure, the Wall Street Journal...
First the Germans and then, after World War I, the Belgians ruled their African colony indirectly. Based on their notions of racial hierarchy, the Belgians upheld the dominance of the Tutsi, with their lighter skin and aquiline, almost European features, as their agents governing the majority Hutu population. Sometimes they gave the Tutsi privileged access to education; a minimum height was set for the sons of chiefs who wanted to go to school, which effectively disqualified many of the shorter Hutu. The Tutsi received the best jobs in the bureaucracy, even as the colonists drained the wealth from the country...