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The outside commission, headed by University of Pittsburgh President Wesley W. Posvar, is expected to advocate changes in the current system. One revision might include introducing character witnesses later, rather than earlier, in a hearing. The committee also could change the number of votes required to approve a disciplinary action...
Only after the murders provoked a national outcry did the FBI enter Mississippi in force and begin a massive effort to undermine the Klan. Until then Director J. Edgar Hoover's insistence that the bureau was a strictly investigative agency forced FBI agents to invest far more energy in busting...
Despite the anticipatory howls, the Defense Secretary's Commission on Base Realignment and Closure last week recommended 86 military bases for termination within the next six years. The Pentagon figures that shutting them down, while partially closing five more and realigning 54 others, will save $693.6 million a year. In...
Though they included such historic military sites as New Jersey's Fort Dix, there is no question that the bases on the commission's roll call had outlived their strategic purposes. San Francisco's Presidio army base, for example, was once a crucial Pacific outpost where officers were trained during...
While Congress recognized the need for the closings, lawmakers were gun-shy about the protests they were certain to provoke. So the legislators found a way to face the issue without having to make the painful choices themselves: they passed a bill endorsing the creation of a twelve-man bipartisan...