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Since 1973, when the Pentagon abandoned the draft and installed the all- volunteer armed forces, the Guard, along with the armed forces reserves, has assumed a more central role in military planning. The Defense Department's Total Force policy is designed to have units of the Air National Guard and reserves and Army Guard support troops available for quick deployment; in the event of a war lasting more than a few weeks, heavy-combat Guard and reserve units would be called up to round out divisions of the regular Army. Based on the military's commitment to Total Force, Congress...
Stone is only halfway through shooting his movie about the assassination, for which he has staged an elaborate re-creation of the event in Dallas. But already the film (at least an early draft of the script, which Stone has tried to keep secret) has come under vigorous assault. The Washington Post attacked the movie's "errors and absurdities." Experts on the assassination have voiced outrage at Stone's version of events. Stone has responded with dark hints of a conspiracy to discredit his movie. And who said the '60s were over...
...early draft of Stone's script (co-written with Zachary Sklar, who edited Garrison's book), we learn that Oswald was just a pawn in an elaborate plot that ranged from seedy gay bars in the French Quarter to the corridors of power in Washington. We meet bizarre characters like David Ferrie, a homosexual ex-airline pilot with a homemade wig and greasepaint eyebrows who claimed involvement in the conspiracy but died before he could testify. We witness shadowy meetings between Oswald and Jack Ruby before the assassination. We are told that as many as seven shots may have been...
...president-designate already wrote and selectively distributed a draft of a long memorandum analyzing the University's need for a provost. After getting the reaction of his deans and vice presidents, Rudenstine plans to distribute the document to the entire Harvard community...
Although the memorandum is still in draft form and has not been released to the public, Rudenstine plans to distribute it widely and invite suggestions from as many people in the University as possible...