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- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Pure Damage Control
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 9
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- <body>
- <p>By CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY
- </p>
- <p>Pure Damage Control
- </p>
- <p> The Pentagon claims that the TAILHOOK REPORT can't be released
- because there's no Secretary of the Navy in place to receive
- it. The full story: the Defense Department has a designated
- candidate for the Navy post but is holding back the public announcement
- in order to justify not releasing the Tailhook findings. The
- unreleased report on drunken aviators molesting women at the
- 1991 Tailhook Association convention is devastating: it's expected
- to recommend courts-martial for at least 12 senior Navy officers.
- Pentagon officials (with White House blessing) want to stall
- the findings until after March 23--when the defense budget
- goes to Congress.
- </p>
- <p>...And More Good News for the Pentagon
- </p>
- <p> Journalist and author RANDY SHILTS (And the Band Played On),
- who revealed last week that he has AIDS, has more bombshells
- planned for May. On Memorial Day, St. Martin's Press will publish
- his new book, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S.
- Military, in which he claims "a vast gay subculture has emerged
- within the military," complete with gay Marines in the White
- House honor guard. An advance excerpt: "At least one gay man
- has served in the astronaut program...The Navy and the Marine
- Corps had at least one gay person at four-star rank since 1981,
- and at least one gay man has served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- in that time."
- </p>
- <p>Death Becomes Her
- </p>
- <p> Like brother, like sister. Margo Janus, sister of assisted-suicide
- crusader DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, is a regular attendee at his deadly
- house calls. "She's been at every one," said Geoffrey Fieger,
- Kevorkian's lawyer and spokesperson. But why? According to Oakland
- County, Michigan, prosecutors, the 66-year-old Janus, who has
- worked as a secretary for Chrysler, has no medical background
- and doesn't participate in the suicides in any substantive way.
- "She feels the way Jack feels," explains Fieger. "Her firm conviction
- [is] that human beings who are suffering have rights over
- their bodies." Last Thursday, Kevorkian assisted two more suicides,
- bringing his total to 15, and Janus was present. This time Kevorkian
- had a fellow physician on hand: Dr. Susan Grenz, a specialist
- in internal medicine from Palm Harbor, Florida, and sister of
- one of the suicides.
- </p>
- <p>By CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY
- </p>
- <p> As the cold war defrosts, Americans and Russians are discovering
- common interests: rock music, fast food and...MIND-CONTROL
- TECHNOLOGY. Former KGB General George Kotov has told American
- visitors about Russian research into "acoustic psycho-correction."
- The process involves transmitting commands into the subconscious
- through static or white-noise bands. The U.S. Army says it's
- "looking into" these reports.
- </p>
- <p>Hails from the Chief
- </p>
- <p> Oxford University isn't the best place to learn American military
- habits. Word is that PRESIDENT CLINTON'S sloppy salute is drawing
- winces from the Pentagon. Aides are subtly suggesting that he
- work on it.
- </p>
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- </article>
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