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...sensation of total, undisguisable defeat. But amid all the joy, bitterness, fear and misery, the overwhelming sentiment of Americans, and even of some Vietnamese, was probably the one voiced by Kenneth Moorefield. The war had dominated his entire adult life: he had studied its strategy as a West Point cadet, fought in it as an infantry officer from 1967 to 1970, returned to Vietnam as a foreign-service officer in 1973, driven himself through 48 sleepless hours helping run the evacuation from the embassy. As his helicopter headed for the U.S. fleet, he says, "I was numb with exhaustion. Physically...
...federal appeals court handed Shannon Faulkner another victory in her fight to be admitted as a cadet at South Carolina's Citadel. Ruling that keeping Faulkner out violates equal-protection guarantees, the court ordered the school to let her in or come up with an alternative plan...
...only set-back for the Crimson came at first singles where Meringoff dropped a 6-1, 6-4, decision to Cadet Marco Coen...
...gave the rebels plenty of time to organize and arm. A barrage of air strikes failed to do anything but stiffen resistance. Once the fight was joined, the Chechens made hash of the raw Russian troops, ill-trained and unprepared, who fought poorly and used tactics any military academy cadet would be expected to avoid. Grachev had remarked recently that only an "incompetent commander" would order tanks into the streets of central Grozny, where they would be vulnerable to rocket launchers, grenades, even Molotov cocktails. Yet at the end of December he did it. Forgetting the cardinal rule that infantry...
Harvard's next test will come tomorrow night at Army, where the Crimson will take on a Cadet team that Sullivan said is on a similar level of rebuilding...