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Your article “Alumni Org Calls for Return of ROTC” (news, Oct. 2) misconstrued my views on the relationship between the various ROTC programs and the Harvard administration. I strongly agree with the American Council of Trustees and Alumni that the Harvard Corporation should take up this important issue and formerly recognize the ROTC programs which provide valuable leadership training to Harvard cadets and midshipmen. Such formal recognition should lead to greater participation of Harvard students in ROTC programs and the eventual physical return of the ROTC units to the Harvard campus...
...Harley. Still, how much harm could this outsider do? He had been elected to a part-time job; most of the work was done by a paid manager, and the mayor's vote counted for no more than those of the six other members of the town council...
Perhaps predictably, Ventura clashed noisily and often with fellow council members. But he looks back on his four-year tenure in office as a success. He recalls persuading an 85-employee local firm not to relocate elsewhere: "It wasn't like I promised them anything, I just told them how much they meant to our city." He also claims credit for upgrading his police officers' weaponry and the subsequent decline in gang activity on the streets. "We made it undesirable for them to be there. It's called firearm superiority...
...Rick Engh, a 14-year town-council member who was mayor pro tem under Ventura, has less happy memories of those days: "I probably served more as mayor than he did. He was always away making movies and everything." Engh also charges that Ventura was "two-faced." One of his initiatives as mayor was to stop cigarettes from being sold at convenience stores. "Yet," Engh says, "he would sit there at the meetings chewing snuff and spitting in the cup. I thought that was rude and disrespectful to the audience...
That message has certainly been the unintended consequence of McGraham's murder. It has stirred outrage in the wider Los Angeles community. The Los Angeles City Council is offering a $75,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individuals responsible for the crime. But it is the people who actually saw McGraham on the streets over the course of 20 years who have been most affected by his violent end. Poignant notes have been left at a shrine erected at the site of his murder. "You didn't know...