European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes Fasching party Telmet stripes Magazine d Kelly fab workers lace furloughs Page 5 q Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 d nil ail Star game sports Page 17 tripes Quilic Ion rant a . It Mie to Natl vol-46, no. 29b thursday february 11, 19bb Good morning 11 d 6693 a army s homosexual ban ruled unconstitutional san Francisco a the army s bait on homosexuals was ruled unconstitutional wednesday by a Federal appeals court which said concerns cited by the military about morale and discipline illegitimately Cater to private by in a Case from Seattle the 9th . Circuit court of appeals ruled 2-1 that army rules Banning soldiers with a homosexual orientation violated constitutional guarantees or equal Protection or he Laws. Related Story. Page 3. The ruling. First or its kind by a Federal appeals court comes less than two years after a supreme court decision uphold ing a Georgia anti sodomy Law that Al Lowed criminal prosecution for private homosexual acts. Other appellate rulings including one by judge Anthony Kennedy of the 9lh circuit before his recent appointment to the supreme court have allowed the armed forces to discharge people based on homosexual acts. But the appeals court said wednesday that the army s 1981 regulations go fur ther by targeting a Soldier s sexual Orien tation regardless of conduct judge William Norris noted thai if male homosexual and heterosexual sol Dicks engaged in a Drunken sexual act. Only Llic homosexual would be Dis charged under the army rules. A ruling that specific sexual conduct Cun be forbidden by criminal Laws cannot be translated into a stale License to pass see ban on Back Page Noriega held folks with North witness Washington api Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega Panama s military ruler met with it col. Oliver l. North twice in 1985 and agreed to provide military training for .-backed Contra rebel exiled former panamanian official if a """"1 Day. The i ilm. Jim once a senior member of apparatus said Noriega later 1o Send panamanian soldiers inside Nicaragua to conduct terrorist leftist Stuj Irmiya a. K
