Word: alpha
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TIME Senior Correspondent Peter Stoler visited several of the U.S.-built installations. Among Stoler's observations: >The great majority of U.S. personnel in Honduras?about 1,300?are stationed at Palmerola, about 50 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa. They are part of Joint Task Force Alpha, whose primary mission is planning for Granadero I. The task force members are largely support troops, broken down into headquarters, communications, logistics, engineering and military police companies...
Requests from university organizations are not uncommon. Loporchio said March 22nd will be Lambda Chi Alpha Day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Boston University's fraternity...
...North Dallas, which last year raised $24,000 to buy classroom computers. Atari, in a joint venture with Post Cereals, will even swap equipment for proof-of-purchase coupons clipped from breakfast-cereal boxes. The exchange rate: one $300 Atari 800XL computer for every 3,125 boxes of Alpha-Bits...
Chuck Clarke of Colby's Alpha Tau Omega wrote another letter of support about this: "Now is the time to unite and fight to preserve our fraternal heritage and ensure that future generations shall possess and preserve the inviolate rights of freedom of speech, expression, and assembly in whatever form they choose...
Rather than close the fraternity or expel the students involved as many observers expected, the school reached a secret agreement with the fraternity. Alpha Tao Omega was allowed to remain open, and the members were forced to perform community service, including the reading and discussion of women's rights literature...