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...necessarily trust the legislature," Barrett said. He said politicians are likely to draft permissive laws when they regulate themselves...
...again, Shilts documents two facts: homosexuals become less unbecoming in time of war when every able body is needed; and harassment, intimidation and administrative discharges for gays and lesbians increase when the shooting stops. That employment practice was especially evident from the late '70s through the '80s, when the draft was replaced by volunteerism. On the eve of the Reagan Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Graham Claytor Jr., once law clerk of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, laid the groundwork for the Pentagon's current antigay policy. The essence contained in a Joint Chiefs of Staff statement was that "homosexuality...
Attorney General Janet Reno urged Congress to draft legislation barring abortion-clinic blockades and the harassment of doctors, patients and staff by antiabortion protesters...
Morgan, however, will wait until after June 3, draft day for Major League Baseball, to make any decisions about his future...
...nationally televised address 11 days after his strong showing in a national referendum, Yeltsin declared that those who do not share his aims "should simply leave," and called for new parliamentary elections by the fall. The President's prediction of a battle with the parliament over his new draft constitution, which would scrap the conservative Congress of People's Deputies, was immediately fulfilled: parliamentary leaders presented their own rival draft, specifically designed to limit the President's powers...