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...Cadet James J. Pelosi seemed like any other West Point graduating student last week as he stepped up smartly to receive his diploma. But his 938 classmates knew differently. For Pelosi, the occasion marked not only the end of a college career but also the end of a Kafkaesque nightmare. In November of 1971, he had been accused of breaking the rules while taking a test. Supposedly he had gone on writing in his bluebook after the order to stop. He denied the charge before the cadet honor committee, but it found him guilty...
...case then went up to the West Point board of officers. It was ready to second the committee's decision until Pelosi's lawyer pointed out that an academy official had prejudiced the case. The board dismissed the charge, and the West Point superintendent ordered the cadet returned to good standing...
...undistinguished cadet at West Point, Haig graduated in the middle of his class (1947), learned the art of briefing while on General Douglas MacArthur's staff during the Korean War. That job and then a case of hepatitis kept him from the fighting. He was late getting to Viet Nam because Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wanted to keep him in the Pentagon as a special assistant. Finally, in 1966-67, he commanded first a battalion, then a brigade in combat. He was seriously wounded and had several close brushes with death. As a colonel, he was asked to join...
This weekend had been billed as a classic pitching duel featuring three of the finest staffs in the nation; the strike-out artists of Cornell, the Cadet hurlers with the lowest ERA nationally and the great depth of Harvard. But the Crimson easily made a sham of the Army and Cayugan defense as they tallied a total of 17 runs in three games...
Mike O'Malley and Barry Malinowski are scheduled to start against the men in grey. Both O'Malley and Malinowski won their last starts and should be able to handcuff the weak-hitting Cadet batmen...