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...this august institution for decades. He is correct in saying that the discrimination against gay and lesbian recruits in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and the rest of the military is similar to the discrimination against Blacks that existed in those same institutions for years. He missed the brass ring, however, when he says that the similarity goes no further...
...control. "A lot of military people are distressed," says retired U.S. General William Odom, former chief of the National Security Agency who is now at the Hudson Institute, "but it would be a mistake to see the friction as evidence of coup thinking." In any case, he says, the brass is snapping back at its civilian critics with Gorbachev's permission, in order to release some of the tensions...
...brass and percussion sections in the back of the American Legion Post No. 24 Band from Canton huddled around a cache of "Daly Delights," packages of peanuts, M&Ms and Granola Bars handed out by volunteers working for U.S. hopeful Daniel W. Daly '65, who had won the party's endorsement...
There is one of Roscoe Turner's sleek racers in the shop. Turner was a hero to Depression-ridden boys. He flew in pink jodhpurs, gleaming calvary boots, brass-button tunic, and sported a needle-pointed waxed mustache. He carried a bottle of Carbona cleaner with him to hold grease spots on his rakish costume to a minimum. You got to see him at Sioux City, Iowa, on a scorched tarmac in the drought years, and the thrill lasted the whole dismal summer. Turner brought along his pet lion cub Gilmore, which draped its paws over the side...
Bhutto's apologists say she is learning, and point to her recent moves to cooperate with the President and back off from confrontation with the opposition. She can also feel secure in her stable relations with the army brass, which has so far stood aloof from the fray. Her ministers say they are working on legislation and feel their efforts to encourage the country's private sector will soon benefit the sagging economy. Then too, Bhutto has helped restore a strong, if incomplete, measure of freedom and democracy to a country that has been under military rule for most...