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...control. While I can't say that the ensuing discussion would be entirely rational, it would be more in keeping with our claimed appreciation for diversity and tolerance than the intolerant and punitive measures being proposed by the Undergraduate Council. --Rev. R. Stephen Powers, HDS '96 Lt. Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve...
...Airborne and leader of a sniper team, he stepped on a land mine in Vietnam on Oct. 9, 1970, and lost both legs below the knee. That is also the date the military believed he died. In 1990, during a visit to the memorial, Toni, who now works for naval procurement, was searching for the names of friends who had died in Vietnam. "I just flipped back to the Tonis, and the directory had my name. They had my rank and service right, except that I was alive. I showed my wife, and we didn't believe it at first...
...goal of comprehensive engagement, the approach pursued by all U.S. Presidents since Richard Nixon, is to bring China into the world community through broadly based dialogue and diplomacy; an example is the Pentagon's policy of expanding contacts with the Chinese military through naval visits and official exchanges. Admiral R.J. Zlatoper, the commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific fleet, has made a priority of better military-to-military relations. "I see myself as a missionary, not just a war fighter," he says. "I sense on the Chinese side an equal interest in being engaged with...
...move large numbers of troops across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait, U.S. military experts estimate that Beijing would have to deploy half a million men for a victorious assault and that casualties would be in the range of 50%. True, China could seriously damage Taiwan's economy with a naval blockade or sporadic missile strikes, but it would also suffer by losing foreign support, particularly the substantial Taiwanese investment on the mainland--$29 billion, by most estimates...
BEIJING: China announced another round of military exercises near Taiwan in its continued effort to intimidate the island before its upcoming election. The official Xinhua News Agency said China will conduct joint ground, naval and air exercises in the Taiwan Straits starting Monday, even as it declared the end of eight days of missile launches near the island. China has said that the exercises are intended to quash pro-independence sentiment on Taiwan as it prepares for its first direct presidential election on March 23. The new exercises would straddle the election in which pro-independence President Lee Teng...