Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 15:00:28 EST Message-ID: Lines: 116 \SE A;NATION;INSIDE THE BELTWAY \BY John McCaslin \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES LIVING IN THE PAST The Clinton camp had better find someone who knows how to read a calendar - and fast, before the president-elect is walking among the dinosaurs. You'll remember how no one could quite explain why a Clinton campaign news release on the Iran-Contra indictment against Caspar Weinberger was dated Oct. 29 - the day before the indictment was issued. Max Parker, a spokeswoman for Mr. Clinton, countered claims by Republicans that the Clinton team was leaked the charges, saying the campaign "made an error and put the wrong date on a press release." Unfortunately, the computer the Clinton folks said could prove their point was nowhere to be found. Now the Clinton forces have issued to reporters the president-elect's travel schedule for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and what a strange trip it will be. It has Mr. Clinton leaving Little Rock for Southern California on Friday, Nov. 27, which is absolutely correct. But when you flip the page, the itinerary has Mr. Clinton arriving in Southern California on Friday, Nov. 25. In other words, somewhere en route to the Golden Poppy State, Mr. Clinton trips back in time, at least as far as 1988, when the last Friday, Nov. 25, occurred. Mr. Clinton's odyssey doesn't stop there. Flipping the next page, we see that he's relaxing in Southern California on Sunday, Nov. 24, and for all we know with Timothy Leary. Rest easy: The president-elect reappears in 1992 on Monday, Nov. 30, departing Southern California destined for Little Rock. RIGHT-WING MEDIA Time magazine, in an article titled "Larry King: The Last of the Red-Hot Liberals," calls the TV and radio personality "a defiant liberal in a field rife with conservatives - for whom he has little respect." How little? Cliff Kincaid, a contributing editor to Human Events, writes about the Friday night before the election when the producer of Larry King's TV show "gave a special telephone number to Clinton press secretary George Stephanopoulos so that he could get on the program ahead of other calls and harass President Bush about the Iran-Contra." A few days later, Bill Moyers, former LBJ flack, PBS "reporter," regular substitute for Mr. King and now Clinton adviser, remarked on media bias during "Larry King Live." "I think there are reporters around Clinton who are baby boomers who are drawn to him. I think there are a lot of reporters in Washington who just wish for a new story," he said. "But I watch probably as many talk shows, and as many interview shows . . . as anybody else. I actually think the bias, in the overall system, is from the center to the right." EXPLOSIVE NUMBERS Talk about timing. As the Pentagon and rest of the nation await President-elect Clinton's decision on ending the ban on homosexuals in the military, here comes an explosive book that could scare the pants back on you. Scheduled for release in March, "Exclusion: Homosexuals' Right to Serve," is written by Melissa Wells-Petry, a major and lawyer in the Army's Judge Advocate General Corps who lives in Germany, where she's recovering from wounds sustained during the Gulf war. Provided access to Maj. Wells-Petry's manuscript, the weekly newspaper Human Events highlights one factor weighing especially heavily in the debate - the increase in health risks (AIDS, hepatitis-A, hepatitis-B, syphilis, gonorrhea) to fellow servicemen and women that would accompany admission of homosexuals to the military in significant numbers. Maj. Wells-Petry finds "qualitative and quantitative differences between patterns of homosexual and heterosexual activity," citing a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine where "homosexuals had a median of 68 partners in the year before entering the study, compared to a median of 2 for heterosexuals, and homosexuals had a median of 1,160 lifetime partners, compared to a median of 41 for heterosexuals." She also notes a study in the journal Medicine that gave homosexuals a "mean number of estimated lifetime sexual partners of 1,422." More so than any other profession, Maj. Wells-Petry writes, the military requires its members to live and work under close conditions that afford minimal privacy, allowing far less personal choice than is normal in civilian life. For that reason, maintaining "discipline, good order and morale" is essential to the success of our armed forces. While interference with any one of these needs would inflict serious harm on the military, Maj. Wells-Petry says, the opening of the services to homosexuals, given their unusual sexual practices and related health risks, would do damage to all three. VOTE FOR ME Tennessee state court Judge D'Army Bailey of Memphis is not hiding the fact that he wants Gov. Ned McWherter to appoint him U.S. senator to replace Vice President-elect Al Gore. The judge paid to have a glowing profile of himself distributed over the PRNewswire, which thousands of reporters nationwide have access to. "Tennessee may be the next state to send an African-American to the U.S. Senate," his news release states. "Prominent among a short list of finalists for the position is Judge D'Army Bailey, 50, a Yale Law graduate and personal friend of President-Elect Bill Clinton. He almost single-handedly founded the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel site of the assassination of Martin Luther King." This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM