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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the summer between their junior and senior years, cadets spend six weeks at a ROTC advanced camp at Fort Bragg, N.C., where they are evaluated on their leadership potential, training exercises, and live weapons firings, says Captain Jeffrey A. Welch, a ROTC instructor...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Preparing Today for the Military Tomorrow | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...power in transposition to the upper register. Robin's blatant sexuality, which was so appealing in a similar role in this winter's production of Joseph, doesn't quite fit in here. Still, her strong voice and wry sense of humor keeps her slink and slide routine from becoming camp...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Spring's Here and So Is Pippin | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

Several years ago, French Screenwriter and Author Marguerite Duras recovered some notebooks stashed away in a cupboard. They dated from the last days of World War II, and in them she had recorded her anguished waiting for news of her husband, a concentration camp deportee. The diary she later published as The War records his return; he was so emaciated and weak that the weight of a cherry would lacerate his stomach. Duras also includes a chilling portrait of the Gestapo officer who arrested her husband and who then, impressed by Duras's literary reputation, tried to court her, confiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 28, 1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Reagan gave final approval to the plan on Sunday, April 13, following his return to the White House from Camp David. In doing so, the President asked Admiral Crowe how late he could still order a cancellation of the mission if conditions should warrant a change of plans. The Joint Chiefs Chairman assured his boss that he could command a turnaround as late as ten minutes before strike time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Dead of the Night | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...details." It was subsequently aborted, he said, "because we immediately dispersed all the units that were commanded by their people." On Feb. 22, Enrile and his vice chief of staff, General Fidel Ramos, barricaded themselves inside the defense ministry and threw their support to the Aquino camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Marcos Seizes the Offensive | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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