The new group plans to negotiate with the Clinton Administration over the wording of the executive order to end the military ban.

As in the United States, efforts are being made to revise the military ban in Britain.

He has implied that the military ban is overly inflexible and only encourages homosexuals to begin their service with a lie.

He argued that compromise was better than defeat, which he said had become inevitable, with Congress likely to make the military ban a law.

The case originated with a military ban on preaching on pending federal legislation by chaplains.

Early 1948, almost exactly 45 years before President Clinton proposed lifting the military ban on homosexuals.

Organised local opposition to the coup was muted, due to a military ban against protests.

But ever since the furor over the military ban, Clinton has appeared to duck the debate.