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...Services Committee apparently will have no immediate effect on the committee's informal prohibition on sending military personnel to Harvard and other schools that unilaterally terminated their ROTC programs. The policy was adopted three years ago and strengthened last year at the insistence of former committee chairman F. Edward Hebert (D-La), who lost the powerful chairmanship in January. The committee's chief counsel said this week that if any reversal of the blacklist decision were to be made this year, the new policy probably would have been agreed upon during the Armed Services Committee's already completed annual authorization...
State and local laws have been as ineffective as the federal statutes. According to Levi, only two states-New York and Massachusetts-have "tough" gun-control statutes. The first case under Massachusetts' new law, which went into effect on April 1, was decided last week when Calvin Hebert, 18, was found guilty of carrying a rifle without a permit. If Hebert's appeal is turned down, he would be subject to the one-year mandatory jail sentence the new law imposes on all offenders, even transients with guns registered in states other than Massachusetts...
Another bright sign from the caucus came when they voted to unseat F. Edward Hebert as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, a post which he has held since 1971. During his tenure, he supported the bombing of Cambodia against the will of a majority of the House, and frequently endorsed and lobbied for defense projects so outlandish that even the Nixon administration opposed them...
Students at colleges throughout the country should have particularly fond memories of Hebert as the man who led a fight in Congress to keep the Reserve Officers Training Corps on the campuses. He sought to exclude colleges who did away with ROTC from government programs in order to punish them...
...never served in the armed forces, Hebert has shown a surprising willingness, even anxiousness, to send Americans to die in Southeast Asia. His removal as Armed Services Chairman is a welcome sign. His successor Melvin Price doesn't appear to be much of an improvement, but has supported some positive social legislation during his terms in Congress...