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...city or county level. After a 1989 federal study showed that one-third of adolescents who kill themselves are young people struggling with their sexual orientation, school officials in Virginia's Fairfax County decided to expand their wide-ranging family-life education program. "We had a moral obligation to combat a devastating trend," says Gerald Newberry, coordinator of the county's family-life education programs. "We needed to communicate to our kids that people are different, and that we don't choose our sexual feelings -- they choose...
...says yes, but Powell calls disarmament only "one method that could be used" and adds that the troops can hardly round up "every last AK-47" in Somalia. So, might the warring clans create anarchy and famine again after the U.S.-U.N. troops leave? The hope is that the combat troops can pacify the country enough for a smaller, "regular" U.N. peacekeeping force to take over. Though the U.S. would like to begin pulling out by Bill Clinton's Inauguration Jan. 20, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said it "would not be bound by an artificial deadline," and Powell thought...
President Bush has thrown up his hands after reading the report from his PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON WOMEN IN THE MILITARY, and may reverse its ban on women in combat cockpits before sending the recommendations on to Congress. After a yearlong, $4 million study, the 15-member commission came up with several odd objections to women serving in combat. First of all, the report argues, women might be taken as prisoners of war. Servicewomen, who are asking for assignments in which they could be killed, have already said they are willing to risk imprisonment. The commission also insisted that if both...
...have integrated the genders effectively, in many others harassment remains commonplace, from sexual taunts to overt refusal to promote women into positions of authority over men. For every woman who is happy with colleagues, there is another with horror stories. All the services continue to preclude women from holding combat posts, despite Congress's vote in 1991 to drop regulations that prohibit women in the Air Force and Navy from flying combat missions...
...theory that civilians cannot tolerate seeing women in wheelchairs or body bags. Another argument is that women lack the strength or endurance for battlefield tasks, although many jobs from which they are excluded have no specific standards. In any case, the practical effect of excluding women from combat, which contributes to promotion, is to slow their rise up the career ladder...