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...women who served in the gulf has generated support in Congress and public opinion for broadening the role of females in the military. Last week in a landmark move the Senate voted overwhelmingly to overturn a 43-year-old law that bars women from flying combat missions. Said Delaware Senator William Roth, who co-sponsored the amendment with Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts: "The facts show that women pilots have successively broken ground in just about every area of aviation -- and they deserve the opportunity to compete...
...measure, which would allow but not require each of the services to certify women pilots for combat missions, won little support among the military brass. Said former Marine Commandant Robert H. Barrow: "Women give life. Sustain life. Nurture life. They don't take it." Despite such reservations, the Pentagon is likely to go along grudgingly with the policy...
...light for women fighter pilots. Though they failed to preserve the aviation ban, adherents of this go-slow approach won support for a 15-member White House-named panel that would present a report to Congress next year on the feasibility of admitting women to a wide variety of combat jobs...
...black conservative who made it out of dirt-poor rural Georgia to Yale Law School and the highest ranks of government yet is opposed to all racial preferences; a founding member of the Black Student Union at Holy Cross and a Black Panther sympathizer dressed in beret and combat boots who became the darling of right- wing Republicans; a lawyer who once called the Supreme Court's overthrow of segregation in Brown v. Board of Education "one of the most significant cases decided by the court during this century," but later criticized the ruling on the ground that...
...Prime Minister Ante Markovic warned, "We would find ourselves sitting on a bomb, which could destroy us all." His words proved prophetic. On Tuesday each republic proclaimed its sovereignty. The next day tank columns moved toward border crossings, and the 20,000 federal troops in Slovenia were placed on combat alert. In the early-morning hours of Thursday, 40 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers rolled toward the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana to secure the republic's main airport, and traded artillery and antitank fire with small pockets of Slovenian defense forces. The airport was hit by air-to-ground...