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<text id=93TT1071>
<title>
Mar. 01, 1993: Pure Damage Control
</title>
<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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