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- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: We'll Get Back to You
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
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- <body>
- <p>By JANICE CASTRO
- </p>
- <p>We'll Get Back to You
- </p>
- <p> Military officers know that they may no longer ask
- recruits whether they are gay, but HOMOSEXUALS IN THE MILITARY
- are still not out of the woods. Recruiters pressed the Pentagon
- on what they should do if service candidates voluntarily declare
- that they are homosexual. After much consternation, the
- Pentagon passed the word: Take the name and phone number and say
- you'll get back to them. After all, Pentagon officials reason,
- there is no point in recruiting people only to put them on
- unpaid standby reserve, especially since the whole issue of gays
- in the military is likely to be resolved in the coming months.
- </p>
- <p>Packing at the CIA
- </p>
- <p> CIA Officials investigating the shooting spree that left
- two dead and three wounded outside the agency's entrance gate
- two weeks ago doubt that the still unidentified killer was a
- present or former CIA employee. For one thing, the attacker did
- not attempt to go inside. In most cases, embittered
- ex-employees who go on shooting sprees enter the workplace to
- attack their former colleagues. And at CIA headquarters, anyone
- can carry a gun into the complex. Just as at other government
- agencies, there are no metal detectors at the entrances.
- </p>
- <p>Aspin's Purloined Letter
- </p>
- <p> Defense Secretary Les Aspin is seething over a leak during
- the transition that soured Bill Clinton's relations with the
- Joint Chiefs of Staff over the issue of homosexuals in the
- military. Aspin's top-secret strategy advisory to Clinton--in
- which Aspin recommended that discussion of the issue with the
- Chiefs should be merely pro forma and that Clinton should plow
- ahead regardless of what they said--was written on the House
- Armed Services Committee computer. Administration sources say
- the memo was stolen from the computer by a Republican committee
- staff member, who passed it on to G.O.P. opponents of Clinton's
- policy before he made a move.
- </p>
- <p>Hazardous Music
- </p>
- <p> A DC-10 was entering its final landing approach at J.F.K.
- recently when it suddenly banked wildly to the left, nearly
- causing a crash before the crew got things under control. Seems
- that the airliner's electronic flight controls went wacky when
- somebody in first class turned on his portable CD player.
- Experts at NASA, the National Transportation Safety Board and
- the Federal Aviation Administration have concluded that stray
- electronic emissions from CD players, cellular phones, radios,
- electronic games and even portable computers can interfere with
- flight controls during takeoffs and landings. New, more sternly
- worded warnings may be in the offing.
- </p>
- <p>By The Way, Congratulations!
- </p>
- <p> Things have become so confused as the Clinton White House
- races to fill hundreds of top Administration posts that one
- senior agency official learned that she had got the job only
- when a government travel agent called to tell her that her
- tickets were ready. What tickets? For that delegation to Europe
- she was heading.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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