[For gay soldiers, worry and hope in ban repeal] Part: 5 of 6
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tion technician during the gulf war, - - --- - --
said that when she joined the service, l new he realized he was gay. In a fit of pique,
she married her best friend, a Marine he said, his wife told his commander
corporal, to give her an alibi and to a last June.
double her $350 biweekly housing al- poliCy is already "My company commander dropped
lowance. She lived with her girlfriend; conflicty.omade dope
her husband lived separately. brewing conflict. the questioning after thinking about it
Facing re-enlistment last May, Ms. __ _ ____ over the weekend," the doctor said. "I
Ackerman decided to leave the Ma- - --- think it was because he just didn't want
rines. "It was just too much stress for and lesbians to relax and not worry to open up that hornet's nest."
me, hing to lineandoutble life," she about what they say or do," said Ms. Gay and heterosexual soldiers
sarriNo loe and her husband were Clark, who is now a substance abuse agreed that many details needed to be
mriareh w , counselor for adolescents at Duke Uni- worked out after Mr. Clinton lifts the
divorced. versity Medical Center in Durham ban. The military, and many states
there laesbai the militass ry sxay N-C. 'where military installations are becat:
Ote ebasi h iiaysyNC a.Temltrthey face the added pressures of sexual ed, havee laws ltr prohibiting sodomythat=
harassment from male soldiers. Other homosexuals in the military would need to be changed esodomyiha-
say they often strive for jobs in areas tent with the new policy.
Creating a Phony Fiance , with critical shortages, like doctors
Bonnie Clark, 38, a Navy lieutenant and nurses, and seek to outperform A 29-year-old Army staff sergeant
for nearly 10 years, said she invented a their heterosexual colleagues to make who works for the National Security
fiance and even bought an diamond it that much harder for commanders to Agency at Fort Meade, Md., echoed the
engagement ring, to try to ward off the dismiss them if they are found out. sentiments of many of those inter-
advances of her commander during an A 29-year-old doctor at Fort Bragg, I viewed. "If you do your job well and
a ss ig n m e n t in th e 1 9 8 0 's. s r e y u o n r i h h n r n n
"It'll take aslong-time gaymen N.C., a large Army installation, said he serve your country with honor, no one
e a long time for gay men and his wife separated last year when should have the right to take that away
from you," he said.
AllBoeing 74 7Engine Bolts Are Ordered Replaced
SEATTLE, Nov. 15 (AP) - The Fed- are designed to snap when an engine Ihe aviation agecsaid ith not
eral Aviation Administration has or.. malfunctions so the engine will break detemianed whehernccking of the
dered replacement of all Boeing 747 free rather than destroy a plane's pins caused the Amster dam crash.
engine bolts like the ones on a cargo wing. That way the plane can continue The agency order affects more than
plane that crashed into an apartment flying on its remaining engines. Each 700 aies oer by nral
complex in the Netherlands last month. engine is secured by four pins. Electric, ratt poweredby General
Teaviation agency on Friday also -Ecrc, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-
The avatin age o Fr aso Attention was focused on the bolts Royce engines.
ordered that newer model bolts, or fuse after a 747-200 El Al cargo jetliner lost All old-style bolts supplied on planes
pnbe ultrasonically tested for cracks two engines shortly after takeoff on before 1980 must be replaced within 30
landtithb ins eed every 500Oct. 4 and crashed into an apartment days.
S dings instead thevery Company complex in Amsterdam. At least 43 Limited inspections of the fuse pins
rOm nurda the Boeing Cmak people were killed. ordered by the agency in October re-
recom m ended that airlines check s~ e n n m r u e ot f c ro
more closely for cracks and corrosion investigators found evidence of met- sioneand 13m reports reofc corroin
in the fuse pins, which secure engines al fatigue and corrosion in several of newer pins.
to wings on most Boeing-made 747 jum- the fuse pins. But Dutch investigatorsfBne ins.
bo jtliers.sai ths moth ha nvesigaors Boeing is designing a new fuse pin
bo jetliners, said this month that metal fatigue for the 747, but it is not expected to be
The pins are sensitive to strains and alone could not explain th ecras_'All zo
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