Word: generale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With less than complete success, however, as General Goodpaster learned to his chagrin just two weeks after making that statement. The silver-haired, 35-year veteran of the Army, who came out of retirement in 1977 to become West Point's highly regarded superintendent a year after the cheating scandal that resulted in the expulsion of 152 cadets, was summoned to Washington last week for a grilling by Army brass about a second scandal. This one involved an incident in which a squeamish woman cadet was forced by male classmates to bite off the head of a live chicken...
...harassment, which took place at a training camp last summer, came to light in a report to Goodpaster after a two-month investigation by the Academy's inspector general. He found that in another case, a cadet was forced by male classmates to strip; then he was tied up and his genitals were sprayed with shaving cream. Some hazers dressed up in mock Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods fashioned out of bed sheets. Academy authorities denied that the cadets were being racist, and in fact at least one black cadet donned a K.K.K. costume. Said Goodpaster: "These aren...
...half of the 62 women who expect to graduate next May plan to marry male graduates of the Academy, even though the Army makes no promises about whether they will be sent to the same duty stations or to ones on opposite sides of the globe. Still, women in general have had a hard time in adjusting to West Point; of the 119 who entered as plebes in 1976, 57 have dropped...
Because of the severe harassment from other cadets, both resigned from the corps at the end of the summer camp and are now enrolled at a private college; the young man, however, is still determined on an Army career. There the matter rested, until the inspector general began his investigation, prompted by a complaint from the male cadet...
...account for the country's business-as-usual atmosphere? Said the commander of U.S. forces in Korea, General John Wickham Jr.: "It demonstrates the maturity of the Korean people." A Korean business tycoon speculated: "With our TVs, refrigerators and all, so many of us now consider ourselves the middle class -the backbone of the country-that we knew we couldn't afford to go to pieces over Mr. Park's tragedy and possibly invite another North Korean invasion...