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JOHN H. IBIS '92 was sighted last week pursuing various Harvard administrators around the Yard. Citing irreconcilable differences, Ibis said he fled his perch at a putative Bow St. Social club which periodically publishes parodies. Apparently, Ibis his been AWOL for several weeks, and some sources say he was seen at Yale Commencement ceremonies prior to the resignation of Yale resident Benno Schmidt...
...book's second level, an archaeological dig through Reagan's attitudes, deals with why the President was often AWOL and other puzzles. Growing up the son of an alcoholic father explains in part Reagan's aversion to conflict in the official family. Cannon, having lived with the same burden, writes of this with special sensitivity. More-opaque layers of the Reagan psyche -- his capacity for self-deception and his tendency to let myth taint important policies -- tie in to his Hollywood fixation with happy endings...
...been assigned crucial roles in contingency planning for a European war. For the most part, they have acquitted themselves well in the gulf, but there have been embarrassing exceptions. Some National Guard brigades were simply unprepared to fight. In Louisiana dozens of reservists from the 256th Brigade went AWOL for a weekend to protest training conditions, and the commander of the 48th Infantry Brigade from Fort Irwin, Calif., was removed from active duty after his unit performed poorly in training...
Overdue Bill Tough-talking William Bennett spent nearly two years fighting narcotics from a Cabinet-level bully pulpit. But Bennett left his drug-war ) post so meekly and with such meager results that some wondered if the general had gone AWOL. Bennett then backed off from his acceptance of a job as head of the Republican National Committee, throwing the party into even greater disarray...
...authorities were investigating charges of sodomy at the preschool. After videotaped interviews were conducted with 400 children, investigators decided that 369 had been abused. Later, the mother whose claims had initiated the case complained to prosecutors that someone had sodomized her dog and that her estranged husband and an AWOL Marine were also abusing her son. In 1985 she was found to be an acute paranoid schizophrenic...