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Post-Soviet Russia adopts no-enemy defense doctrine
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin approved Russia's first post-Soviet military doctrine Tuesday, establishing a defensive posture in which no nation is considered an enemy.
Military leaders had demanded the new doctrine as payment for crushing Yeltsin's opponents in parliament last month.
It was not immediately known what concessions the government might have made to the military, which has complained about shrinking budgets, arms reductions and inadequate housing for soldiers.
munism and supporting communist allies around the world.
The document is a major turnaround in military strategy from the Cold War. No longer is the military responsible for helping export com-
Instead, the military doctrine has "a clearly expressed defensive character and is oriented toward a firm and active protection of Russia's vital interests and security," Yeltsin's press service said.
"No state or coalition is seen by Russia as a potential enemy," said Valery Manilov, deputy secretary of the Security Council. "All states whose policy does not damage Russia's interests are seen as its partners."
The new doctrine was approved amid growing international concerns about a resurgence of Russian military activity in the border states of the former Soviet Union.
Also Tuesday, Yeltsin warned that Russian democracy was being endangered by some of his top aides who
are continuing to use the strong-arm tactics wielded during the recent unrest in Moscow.
Yeltsin appeared to be distancing himself from some government actions. He has sought recently to portray himself as a leader above party politics, possibly to avoid the unpopularity of some government acts, such as the brief censorship of news media after the crackdown on his opponents in parliament.
Government officials reportedly are divided on the pace of reforms. Yeltsin's speech may have been a warning to slow down.
Within days of the army's crushing of legislative hard-liners last month, Yeltsin promised to approve the long-delayed military doctrine. His Security Council approved the doctrine Tuesday after a 10-minute discussion.
Case argues jury gender preference
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Keeping people off juries because of their sex promotes outmoded stereotypes and should be as unlawful as jury selection based on race, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.
"You should not be able to exclude a male or a female simply because of their gender," argued a lawyer for an Alabama man who says his rights were violated when an all-female jury decided he fathered a baby out of wedlock.
But a lawyer for the state of Alabama said barring jury selection based on sex "would raise more problems than it could possibly cure."
The Supreme Court banned race-based exclusions of potential jurors in a series of rulings starting in 1986.
Sex discrimination in jury selection is not as pervasive as discrimination based on race, said Lois N. Brasfield, assistant Alabama attorney general.
John F. Porter, 31, the lawyer for paternity defendant James E. Bowman, said the equal protection clause of the Constitution's 14th Amendment requires the same ban on jury strikes based on sex.
Sex-based jury decisions often are based on unwarranted stereotypes, Portersaid.
Brasfield argued that the court's ban on race-based jury selection is a special case because many Blacks were
routinely kept off juries until the high court acted in 1986.
But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted that Alabama barred all women from serving on juries until 1967, long after Blacks were allowed to serve.
Brasfield said barring jury selection based on sex would slow the handling of cases and lead to many appeals.
But Clinton administration lawyer Michael R. Dreene said sex-based jury selection already is banned in some states — including New York, California and Massachusetts — and one region of the federal court system. The rule has not been difficult to administer, he said.
The high court is expected to issue a decision by June.
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