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- Apr. 12, 1993: Anywhere but in the Air (or Undersea)
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <p>Anywhere but in the Air (or Undersea)
- </p>
- <p> The U.S. Navy has recommended to Secretary of Defense Les
- Aspin that women be allowed to serve in all combat positions--except in submarines, where quarters are close. But because the
- Air Force still adamantly opposes using women in fighter and
- bomber combat aircraft, Aspin doesn't want to take on the Air
- Force now over this issue. He has asked the Navy to hold off on
- putting women into combat aircraft. Personally, the Secretary
- believes that prohibition should be lifted too.
- </p>
- <p>Malcolm's Lost Writings
- </p>
- <p> Best known as a portrait of a black leader's life, THE
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X was meant to contain a 14-point
- economic plan for black America. The plan is spelled out in one
- of four unpublished chapters of the manuscript, bought several
- months ago at an auction of Alex Haley's estate by a Detroit
- lawyer, Gregory J. Reed. In a chapter titled "20 Millions"
- (referring to the number of blacks in America), Malcolm sketches
- a step-by-step program for establishing black schools, libraries
- and banks. "For the first time, the White man would see the
- Black man as a man," writes Malcolm. "Producing what he wants.
- And buying what he needs." Reed might release the more than 200
- pages of unpublished material as a book.
- </p>
- <p>They'll Get Along Without Him Very Well
- </p>
- <p> When U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens resigned from his post under
- pressure from the Clinton Administration last week, he
- complained that his departure could impede the investigation of
- alleged corruption in the House post office as well as alleged
- wrongdoing by House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski.
- But Justice Department sources confirm the case is set to move
- ahead without Stephens. Prosecutors are 30 to 60 days away from
- announcing the indictments of a former Congressman and a former
- top-ranking official at the House post office.
- </p>
- <p>Patriarchy: 1, Feminists: 0
- </p>
- <p> Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark has claimed that he's
- trying to bring diversity to Harvard. But Clark recently
- supported the drive to keep law professor CATHARINE MACKINNON
- off the faculty. MacKinnon is one of the most prominent feminist
- legal scholars in the country and something of a media star. In
- a secret faculty vote last month MacKinnon was denied a
- position at Harvard by a slim margin. MacKinnon's legal writings
- on pornography were criticized by some, and Harvard professor
- Alan Dershowitz also helped muster the opposition against her.
- </p>
- <p>Let's See Him Talk Like That to Arnold
- </p>
- <p> Fresh off a confrontation with hollywood hot shots on
- health-care issues, Clinton adviser JAMES CARVILLE is still
- talking tough about Tinseltown. He offended some at a White
- House meeting that included producer Gary David Goldberg and
- Barbra Streisand. Says Carville now: "If a Hollywood producer
- who makes $20 million a year thinks I'm arrogant, that's
- unfortunate. If a $20,000-a-year computer programmer in Holly
- Springs, Mississippi, thinks I'm arrogant, that's a tragedy."
- </p>
-
- <p>Clinton 101
- </p>
- <p>Before they were hardly up, New York University was offering a
- course in "The First 100 Days: The Clinton Administration" for
- May. Other courses the Clinton Years could spawn:
- </p>
- <p>-- "Scalia's Nightmare: Chief Justice Cuomo's First Four
- Decades"
- </p>
- <p>-- "A Tree, a Rock, a Piece of Wood: The Image of Al Gore
- in the Poems of Maya Angelou"
- </p>
- <p>-- "I Coulda Done That: A Critical Look at Clinton's First
- Term" (taught by visiting professor Michael Dukakis)
- </p>
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