
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991                   TAG: 9102210321
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SENATE KILLS `ORPHANS' MEASURE

The Senate Wednesday night defeated the so-called "gulf orphans" measure that would have asked the Defense Department to reassign single parents and military couples with children who have been deployed to the Persian Gulf.

"It is a grave danger to the well-being of our military families and their children to allow the children of American servicmen and women to become orphaned," argued the sponsor, Rep. John Heinz, R-Pa., before the Senate rejected the measure 54-38.

Sen. John Warner, R-Va., who just returned from the Middle East, said "not one person" he had spoken with in the U.S. military had raised the issue of giving some parents compassionate leave. - Associated Press

by CNB