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- <text id=93TT2508>
- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: A Few Bad Men
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- SOCIETY
- A Few Bad Men
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- <body>
- <p>Gay bashing in the South. Murder in Japan. The accused: uniformed
- soldiers.
- </p>
- <p> "They were kicking him and punching him, making comments like
- `Fag, you should die! Tell Bill Clinton about this!' " So
- reported an observer of the alleged bashing by three young
- Marines based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, of gay male Crae
- Pridgen, the latest victim of antihomosexual violence in the
- wake of the Clinton Administration's endorsement of gay
- membership in the military.
- </p>
- <p> In San Francisco four sailors and two Marines were
- sentenced to a year in jail after they pleaded guilty to beating
- a homosexual man lured from a bar, and seaman Terry Helvey was
- charged by the Navy in the bludgeoning murder of gay shipmate
- Allen Schindler near the U.S. naval base at Sasebo, Japan. Thus,
- even as opponents of Clinton's easing of restrictions against
- gay military personnel raised the specter of unrestrained
- homosexuals running rampant through their ranks, more tangible
- threats to military discipline were coming from the straight and
- narrow-minded already in uniform.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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