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Using a large media blitz, ROTC has become increasingly prominent and popular on the nation's campuses in the past decade. In exchange for enrollment in a college ROTC unit, passing grades, and at least three years of duty after graduation, the armed services will provide a student with military training, uniforms, books, a $100 per month stipend, and a commission in the service after graduation...
...instead of using the technical wizardry of minicams and satellite feeds to report a battle that seemed to have been orchestrated for the 7 o'clock news, they were forced to use an older tool, the telephone, reviving images of Edward R. Murrow during World War II's London blitz. They were right in the middle of a city that was being attacked by their own military and yet could not immediately confirm what was happening. Initially, they were handcuffed by the fact that they could neither see nor film what was occurring; later they were captives of the Libyans...
...BEGIN WITH, when I arrived here in 1983, it didn't even really exist. The majority of the Square had been replaced by a giant canyon of concrete and twisted metal, the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the London V-2 blitz. The real problem, however, was what surrounded the subway's gaping...
...MAYOR shirt for $11.95. All of which has made grand entertainment for the camera crews and reporters drawn to Carmel from France, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and points between. The race has even become the target of a running satire in the comic strip Doonesbury. The media blitz is one of the things that prompted Mayor Townsend to call the approaching vote, only half in jest, "the second most important election this year, after the Philippines...
...structure. The House last fall passed a bill to strengthen the role of the Chairman, and the Senate Armed Services Committee is about to do likewise, despite howls of protest from the current service Chiefs. The Navy, traditionally the most independent of the services, is making an all-out blitz to block the legislation, which would "make a hash of our defense structure," according to outspoken Navy Secretary John Lehman. Nonetheless, Weinberger has signaled that he will not oppose the legislation, and passage of some version seems likely...