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…vc Yictnt THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CII No. 22 Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Emeritus Philip Slomovitz Managing Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editor Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Elizabeth Applebaum Staff Writers Kimberly Llfton Ruth Littmann Lesley Pearl Contributing Editor Elie Wiese! Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman Larry Derfner Photographer Glenn Tri...…
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…Opinion Community Views djusting To Gay Soldiers In The Armed Forces Born Jews, New Jews Stand As Equals LEONARD FEIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Sam Nunn and Bob Dole are among those who want the U.S. military's policy toward gays to stay the way it is, al- though both of them have observed that the dispute may be "a genera- tional thing." One of the burdens that oes with being in a position of political responsibility is hat pleading "a ...…
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