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...biggest problem is learning not to bristle at every challenge to their authority. The armed forces pioneered the elevation of blacks to supervisory ranks after President Harry Truman ordered desegregation in 1948. In 1987 Brigadier General Fred Augustus Gorden became the first black officer to serve as commandant of cadets at West Point. While he was walking across the campus one day, a white cadet failed to give the requisite salute. Gorden paused. Still no salute. He could have severely disciplined the cadet, but he chose simply to talk with him instead. "I've learned to pick and choose...
Stroessner toppled Federico Chaves in 1954. The last unrest in the military occurred in 1962, when a cadet was slain outside the capital...
West Point, famous for its injunction that no cadet lie, cheat or steal, is weighing significant changes in its honor system...
...review was initiated last year after a case in which a cadet, who was applying for a Rhodes Scholarship, was accused of lying to two instructors. The student, Anthony S. Ketron, was expelled by the full honor board and then was reinstated shortly before graduation when two U.S. Representatives asked the Pentagon to overturn the expulsion...
...committee plans to evaluate the honor code--which says simply that a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do--to make distinctions between violations of the honor code and violations of administrative regulations, which might invite less stringent punishment...