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...West Point cadet's path to graduation is studded with booby traps. He can be "skinned" for a dirty uniform, shaggy hair, a dusty room and a host of other minor offenses. Cadet Joachim Hagopian, 22, of East Longmeadow, Mass., collected 107 demerits for the first half of this year, five more than the maximum permitted, and was therefore dismissed. He decided to appeal to the courts. In New York, Federal Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. granted a preliminary injunction, ordering the academy to reinstate Hagopian pending a trial. In his 18-page decision, Brieant noted that almost half...
...Crimson won its first three meets going away. In the season opener on December 7, the team downed B.U., 83-35. It overwhelmed Army on December 11, 72-46. The thinclad's margin of victory over the strong Cadet squad was much bigger than anyone had anticipated. John Quirk led the Harvard effort, winning in the mile...
Gordon faced an experienced Cadet at number three in Army Captain Bill James. After dropping the opening game 15-17. Gordon came back to sweep three straight, 18-14, 15-11, 15-12. Quasha, undefeated last year, took his opponent in three games...
...salt merchant, but he always wanted to be a soldier -and a revolutionary. At the Paoting Military Academy, he was the only cadet who cut off his pigtail, that symbol of submission to imperial rule; seven years passed before an obscure Changsha student named Mao Tse-tung made a similar gesture of revolt...
...testimony that only a fraction of the $860 million appropriated by Congress as federal anticrime funds had actually reached the local agencies for which the money was intended. One witness described in detail the misuse of LEAA funds in Alabama; for example, $117,247 earmarked for a police-cadet program was used to pay college tuition for children of high-ranking officials in the state's department of public safety and their friends...