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...presence of openly homosexual individuals in the military would clearly have a negative effect on combat readiness. Prominent military experts such as Gen. Colin Powell and Col. David Hackworth have long opposed the admission of gays to the military. Nor is the situation comparable to desegregation, as Gen. Powell relates: "Skin color is a benign, non-behavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the mos profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a convenient but invalid argument...
Former presidential hopeful Paul Tsongas is circulating a memo among political leaders proposing a third national party led by someone with "moral authority" such as Colin Powell, ex-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Tsongas' memo, published today by The Boston Globe, argues for "a passionate center party that's inclusive socially and prepared to make the hard choices fiscally . . . if it is led by the right person." The key ingredient, he writes, is "the kind of moral authority the Administration clearly does not have and that the (GOP's) 'Contract with America' cannot provide, since it is poll...
...would not be the only time that the president's commitment to promoting tolerance of homosexuality was called into question. In the spring of 1993, campus gay groups protested when the Corporation and Board of Overseers chose former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin L. Powell as the Commencement speaker...
...Star Trek has legions of more temperate fans too. General Colin Powell is a watcher; so are Robin Williams, Mel Brooks and Stephen Hawking, the best- selling physicist (A Brief History of Time) who made a guest appearance in an episode of The Next Generation, playing poker with holographic re-creations of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. Rachelle Chong, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, has decorated her office with Trek paraphernalia and dressed up as Captain Picard for Halloween. "I like the show because it shows me tomorrow," she says. And sometimes today: the cellular phone-like...
...forget Ross Perot, who had mixed success with the Republican and Democratic candidates he supported last week. Perot says the Republicans should have a chance to set matters right but suggests he might be back if they don't. And then there is Colin Powell, who distinguished himself in the Haiti negotiations in September and continues to score high in the polls. As a candidate, however, Powell would suddenly face a barrage of questions about issues he's never had to address, not the least of which is what party he belongs to. And then there is . . . well, who knows...