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remained in the guerrillas' hands. Authoritative figures are impossible to obtain, but it is estimated that the fighting in Eritrea in the summer and fall of 1985 resulted in over 10,000 dead and...
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...It's a private and voluntary activity not worthy of society's legal attention...
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...Many of Mengistu's troops were teenagers, given only a few weeks of training before being thrown into the offensive...
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...But the real story—the famine as a manipulated consequence of war—was largely passed over...
...In fact, Ethiopia was never more than a human interest story: starvation was graphically depicted, and the resulting American relief effort provided the press with most of its material—an American story, about America's involvement in an African famine...
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...But there is a difference in any society between behavior that is permitted and behavior to which there is an inalienable right...
...But the rights of inverts are debatable...
...There are no New York State or City laws against sodomy by consenting adults anyway...
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...Actually, to be ac-curate, New York City has passed a "Sexual Lifestyles" law which forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, public accommodations, and hiring...
...Another problem with laws like this is that liberty is quantifiable...
...But does he deserve extraordinary protection...
...A school board may feel it has good reason not to want a lesbian girl's gym teacher...
...There oughta be a law...
...A hospital may not want a promiscuous gay surgeon swinging a scalpel in its patients...
...One more objection to the Sexual Lifestyles law is that it further muddies society's legal waters...
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...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1986 27 out of a bar because of what he likes to kiss...
...Authoritative figures are impossible to obtain, but it is estimated that the fighting in Eritrea in the summer and fall of 1985 resulted in over 10,000 dead and wounded on both sides...
...Tlne Birth of Communism in Natanth" — or so claims its Red mayor...
...Diplomats and guerrilla sources in Khartoum say the Dergue is preoccupied with another mass recruitment of young Oromos, in preparation for another assault on Nakfa...
...It is entirely possible, however, that many of the Oromos were escaping military recruitment as well...
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...When I go to New York, I can now have any sexual lifestyle I want...
...Plus the Catholic Church opposes the bill...
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...As a mat-ter of fact, the Sexual Lifestyles bill is nearly meaningless...
...Do these people have to hire and work with a man whose activities they detest...
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...However, it has been my personal experience that whatever the Catholic Church says about sex—it's wrong...
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...In other words, you are the judge...
...Their prejudice is, no doubt, as foolish as other prejudices, but there is a difference...
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...But that doesn't give him an in-alienable right to kiss it...
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...A black man is not free to be white, but a sodomist is free not to sodomize...
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...For now, the outlines of the story remain to be filled in, as the strategic denouement of the tragedy begins...
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...Had Mengistu been a right-wing American ally instead of a Soviet puppet, perhaps his atrocities would have garnered as much attention as Bruce Springsteen singing "We Are the World...
...To be fair, New York City's Sexual Lifestyles law does not mandate how-to instruction on homosexuality in public or private schools...
...That's fine...
...But I object to its existence on grounds of reason, and I object strenuously on grounds of more reason to the time and money spent arguing over the thing...
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...Day-care super-visors are not going to show up in the playroom in beards and tutus...
...This is a mat-ter for mores, not legislation...
...Mad Baptists, wild-eyed fundamentalist Moslems and Jews, repressed hard hats, schizophrenic LaRouche-oids are already double-aghast on the subject...
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...The 33,000 Oromos who recently fled across the border into Somalia were reportedly escaping "villagization," a scheme in which whole villages are being relocated...
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...The fighting in Tigre was on a somewhat smaller scale and achieved less dramatic gains for the Dergue...
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...But we should not trounce too vigorously on this latest nonsense from the World Capital of Bad Ideas...
...What a person does in bed is not an essential quality...
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...Anyway, if New York is going to protect the civil rights of minority lifestyles, why not start with the most important minority, alcoholics...
...The freedoms we enjoy made that possible...
...And what about the Army—will its recruitment practices be altered just for New York City...
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...It does not prevent religious, political, or other groups from loudly condemning homosexuality as sinful, ugly, or disease-prone...
...It's easy to have a cheap laugh at the expense of such legislation...
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...Soviet advisers have recently been seen scouting EPLF defenses at Nakfa—another indication that a new offensive is imminent...
...That's what it is—damn injustice...
...MANHATTAN SWISH by P. J. O'Rourke After fifteen years of argle-bargle, New York City has passed a "Homo-sexual Rights" law...
...Prohibition proved this, as do our present laws against marijuana and driving at 60...
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...I don't even object much to its effects...
...In sum, I don't object to the intent of New York's Sexual Lifestyles bill...
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...A homosexual rights bill gives one group which truly deserves the prejudice against it—lawyers—another tool by which to obfuscate the will of the people every time somebody doesn't get the home, job, or veal cutlet he thinks he deserves...
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...They would not have to hire someone who smokes...
...A man who does an abnormal, distasteful, and, as it were, queer thing like make love to another man deserves all the ordinary protection of the law...
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...I can have the sexual lifestyle of a writer, for instance—with a wife, a mistress, and a bevy of co-eds from my Contemporary Fiction seminar...
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...rather it is a prescription for lawlessness...
...Paradoxically, the idea that what a person does in bed is not an essential quality is what's behind the support for the Sexual Lifestyles bill...
...But there are too many people out there who would like to take those freedoms away — in the name of "justice" and "peace...
...Sure, a lot of people would object...
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...To set sodomy up as a "right" opens the door to all kinds of other silly "rights" such as the right to be hired as a salesman for Brooks Brothers when you insist on wearing brown shoes with a blue suit...
...The war's effect on millions of drought victims, moreover, remains untold—the same drought victims who gave the press one of its great human interest stories of late 1984 and early 1985...
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...Peter Grace shows how we can still avoid the $2 billion deficits that threaten us by the year 2000, se Red spies back in our government...
...Nothing in New York is going to change...
...Coming: 48 million illegal immigrants...
...Already our nation is so litigious that not a sparrow falls nor rosebud blooms but some-body goes to court about it...
...Religious and political beliefs are also essential qualities, protected by the First Amendment...
...Or my true love and I can have the sexual lifestyle of dogs and get stuck together on a grade-school playground during recess...
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...This would invalidate drunk driving laws," they'd say...
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...Many of the casualties were ethnic Oromos, people taken from the southern lowlands and forced to fight in the north...
...I'm a victim of prejudice...
...Why, some of the things that go on...
...U seless laws weaken the necessary laws," said Montesquieu...
...Many of the great men of history have been alcoholics—F...
...Or I can have the sexual lifestyle of an Atlantic sahnon—swim up the East River, beget kids without meeting or even seeing my date, then die...
...Alcoholism has an important place in many societies, such as Russia and American Indian tribes...
...Besides, if "discrimination based on sexual orientation" had been strictly enforced within the Church, we'd be out of a whole lot of bishops and probably St...
...And this is exactly my objection to it...
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...A law that cannot be enforced and will not be obeyed is no law at all...
...Blackness, poorness, giriness are essential qualities...
...Indeed, a law against homosexuality would do the same...
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