Word: honored
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...class by themselves. They have been nicknamed the EE 304 cadets after the electrical-engineering course whose take-home examination was the focus of most of the charges. If the academy had followed tradition, none of the expelled cadets could have returned, for they had violated the rigid honor code: "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do." It was only after an agonizing inquiry into the moral fabric of the academy that the Army ruled that any of the 152 cadets who had been kicked out in the scandal could apply for readmission...
...resentment than most is Timothy Ringgold, 24, expelled not for cheating but for saying that he knew of cases of unreported cribbing. Recalls Ringgold: "When I left, I threw away all my uniforms. I was sick of the academy." After he lost a federal court suit charging that the honor code was unconstitutional, he "floundered a lot" until he entered Arizona State University last spring. Then Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut and old West Pointer ('50) who headed the commission that probed the scandal, wrote encouraging him to go back. "I knew I wouldn...
...honor code has survived unscathed, but dismissal for code violations is no longer mandatory; the academy superintendent may now keep a student in cases where dismissal seems too draconian. The EE 304 cadets thus return to the Point to find some major reforms that they themselves unwittingly...
Vance's reception in Peking, reported TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, was polite but noticeably restrained. The airport greeting was a crisp handshake from Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Huang Chen, chief of Peking's liaison office in Washington: no band, no honor guard. On the drive into the city, Vance's Red Flag limousine passed thousands of cheering demonstrators-who, as it turned out, were celebrating, for the third day in a row, the successful completion of the awaited party Congress...
...dinner in the Secretary's honor, in a 22-minute toast, Begin drew a parallel between the P.L.O. and the Nazis, and described the P.L.O. philosophy as "an Arabic Mein Kampf [which was] a danger to all free nations." Vance, in a brief, measured nonresponse, acknowledged that Washington was taking "a more active approach than you would prefer" in attempting to steer the two sides into negotiations. Vance urged his hosts to take a chance for peace and to accept "the risks of a course which can bring greater rewards, but which also leads down paths that are unfamiliar...