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...suicide of Admiral Mike Boorda, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations [NATION, May 27], creates a chance for us to understand better why a man takes his own life. In general, four times as many men commit suicide as do women. When I did research for my book The Myth of Male Power, I had to ask, "If men are the powerful sex, why are they the 'suicide sex'?" I found, first, that the more boys in any society learn the traditional male role of keeping feelings and fears to themselves, the more they commit suicide. Second, almost every person...
...Navy, the timing of the arrests could not be worse. The service is reeling from the fallout of the Tailhook sexual harassment scandal; a succession of cheating, drug-dealing and car-theft scandals at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; and the May 16 suicide of Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda and other top Navy brass were briefed on the case several times. But Navy officials insist the smuggling investigation, code-named Operation White Stallion, was perceived by Boorda and his colleagues not as another blot on the service but as evidence...
...Naval investigators launched White Stallion in May 1995 after two sailors based in Naples were arrested as they arrived at the Rome airport with 6 kg of Turkish heroin, expecting, as military personnel, not to be searched by customs. The sailors turned out to be couriers for Nigerians plying the Golden Crescent heroin trail. That route begins in the opium fields of Afghanistan, runs through refineries in Turkey and then the wholesaling hubs of Italy and terminates in needle parks throughout Western Europe...
Captain Michael L. McHugh, professor of Naval science at MIT, administered the oath of office to 16 students who were appointed either second lieutenant in the Army, Air Force or Marine Corps or ensign in the Navy...
...graduating seniors sitting under a tent in front of Memorial Church listened to a short address by Walter Amory '46, a retired Naval first lieutenant and the head of Amory Engineers, a Duxbury-based civil engineering firm...