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...Military Academy at West Point acknowledged that the school is no longer a rigid temple of martial arts and science. "I expected a very military environment," says Cadet Jason Squier, a junior from Norwalk, Iowa. "It surprised me that West Point is a lot closer to a civilian college than most people would expect...
...distinctions between the academies and civilian schools blur, the ! military honor code is what sets them apart. But that too is under attack, most recently in the biggest cheating scandal in Annapolis history. A special Navy panel recommended on March 31 that the Navy Secretary punish 71 members of the class of 1994, 29 of them by expulsion, for cheating on a 1992 engineering exam. What outraged many academy supporters, including some admirals, was the unsuccessful lawsuit, filed by 40 midshipmen implicated in the scandal, seeking to halt the panel's work. The middies contended their constitutional rights were violated...
...South Korea, the fine gradations of Northern propaganda were lost in a wave of pessimism about the chances of finding a peaceful accommodation with a country still preaching war. The civilian government of President Kim Young Sam came to power believing its military predecessors had manufactured tensions with the North to prop up their own misrule. Kim's ministers spoke in rosy tones about how they would vanquish ideology and unite the two countries. Now, says a Seoul official, "the romantic view is gone." Kim has shelved plans to encourage investment in the North, toughened the South's military stance...
...shoulder with James Connolly? Is he a peacemaker who has gradually pruned away the violent rhetoric of his party to prepare the way for compromise and reconciliation? Or is he a former -- even present -- I.R.A. member who sits on the Army Council and coldly plans terrorist attacks on civilian targets? Adams is, to one degree or another, all these things. His power lies partly in this very lack of clear definition: he is at once a mouthpiece for I.R.A. terror and a moderate voice for peace...
...joint military exercises with South Korea. North Korea has warned that it would consider these actions serious provocations. In Seoul last week TIME managing editor James Gaines, international managing editor Karsten Prager and Tokyo bureau chief Edward W. Desmond talked over the troubling events with South Korea's first civilian President in 32 years, Kim Young Sam, who will be in China this week for talks on the issue...