Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doing Time in Carolina...
About 40 court-martial cases are at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune, the largest military installation on the East Coast. It's also home to the brig where at least 14 reservists are already doing time on guilty pleas in exchange for sentences limited to 18 months for desertion...
...most crucial battles for control are occurring on campuses where Baptist theology is taught. Last fall Baylor University in Texas and Furman University in South Carolina broke ties with state Baptist associations that formerly elected their boards, thus risking lawsuits and millions of dollars in church support. Reason: the universities fear that fundamentalists will soon launch takeovers at the state level and establish control over their curriculums. Last week Baylor backed off a bit, offering to let the Texas Baptist body elect one-quarter of its board members. In the meantime, Baylor and Wake Forest universities plan new theology schools...
...carrying acrylic acid and other chemicals derailed in Freeland, Mich. CSX Transportation of Jacksonville, Fla., cleaned up the mess and sent it to be landfilled. But members of Greenpeace and other environmental groups bird-dogged the train, and some protesters even chained themselves to it. Two weeks ago, South Carolina fined CSX $21,975 because the train was leaking what appeared to be a toxic liquid. Meanwhile the controversy has scared off four landfill operators so far. Last week the train rolled out of Sumter, S.C., like a rail-bound Flying Dutchman, toward an undisclosed destination...
...years as a soldier, but there were some who urged him to become a military despot, if not an absolute monarch. Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, rode into the White House with two bullets in his body and a white scar across his face. When South Carolina tried to annul new federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, before going on to glory at Vicksburg and Appomattox; and Rough Rider...