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ARIZONA
Q tate Rep. Steve May’s battle to remain in the
O Army Reserve continues.
May, who is gay, is being investigated under
the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue’’
policy. The official inquiry into his case began in
February 1999.
An April 28 story in The Arizona Republic
reports that the Army sent May a letter in
March asking him to resign. Attached was a let
ter of resignation for the lieutenant to sign and
return to the Army, thus ending the investiga
tion.
May refused to sign the letter.
“This shows the lunacy of this policy," he
said. “I have been serving in my unit openly for
a year now. My unit is not suffering."
The whole process began when May, a fresh
man Republican state representative from east
Phoenix, spoke out at a legislative hearing on an
anti-gay hill.
His attorneys argue that, because May was
on inactive status at the time, he did not violate
“don’t ask, don’t tell.”
“The Army apparently believes that a
reserve officer is prohibited from discussing his
or her sexual orientation, even if done in the
course of fulfilling his or her responsibility as a
legislator, and even if done as a private citizen,”
AIDS A t t a c k s
I
n an unprecedented move, the Clinton
administration has formally designated
A ID S as a threat to U .S. national security that
could topple foreign governments, cause eth
nic wars to erupt and unravel decades of work
in building free-market democracies abroad,
reports an April 30 Washington Post story.
A rapid reassessment of the government’s
efforts is being directed by the National Secu
rity Council. The budget request to fight
A ID S overseas has been doubled to $254 mil
lion, and a White House interagency working
group has been formed to “develop a series of
expanded initiatives to drive international
efforts” to combat the disease, the Post says.
This move was spurred by U .S. intelligence
reports that examined the pandemic’s broadest
consequences for foreign governments and
societies. Special attention was paid to Africa.
In January, a National Intelligence Esti
mate projected that a quarter of southern
Africa’s population is likely to die of AIDS-
related complications. It also stated that the
number of people dying of A ID S will rise for a
decade before there is a chance of improve
ment.
attorney
Christo
pher Wolf wrote in
November.
It is the Army’s
contention that May
violated the policy
by speaking publicly
about his sexual ori
entation.
Although a hear
ing has not yet been
scheduled, it is expected to be held sometime
this summer. A t the hearing, four lawyers will
present the Army’s case against May. Four attor
neys will represent May. The Army will pay all
expenses.
May serves as a chemical weapons defense
officer. He has consistently been ranked as one
of the Army’s top young officers. His comman
der has written of his “unlimited potential to be
an outstanding asset as a future officer and
leader” and has praised his “outstanding perfor
mance.”
NATIONAL
R
eform party presidential candidate Pat
Buchanan announced this month that he
will not consider choosing a gay man or a les
bian for either his running mate or as a Cabinet
According to the study, dramatic declines
in life expectancy are the strongest risk factor
for “revolutionary wars, ethnic wars, genocides
and disruptive regime transitions" in the
developing world.
Although they describe the stakes as high,
Clinton administration officials do not antici
pate dealing with this crisis on the same scale
used to address traditional security priorities.
Leon Fuerth, national security advisor to
Vice President A1 Gore, admitted to The
Washington Post that the 2001 budget request
of $254 million to fight A ID S abroad provides
“resources that are inadequate for the task."
Senior administration officials, some of
them apparently frustrated, said the govern
ment does not dispute estimates by the Joint
United Nations Program on H IV/AIDS that it
would take nearly $2 billion to fund adequate
prevention in Africa, and a like sum for treat
ment.
The intelligence estimate portrays the pan
demic as the bad side of globalization: Accel
erating trade and travel are pushing Asia, and
India in particular, toward “a dramatic increase
in infectious disease deaths, largely driven by
the spread of H IV /A ID S.... By 2010, the
region could surpass Africa in the number of
HIV infections.”
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