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...Coast Guard patrols intercepted at least 20 more refugee boats fleeing Haiti, adding about 400 asylum-seekers to yesterday's one-day record of 1,500. The surging response prompted Defense Secretary William Perry to weigh sending them to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba -- and sparked rumors in Haitian and U.S. political circles that invasion is imminent. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson doubts it: Haitian strongman Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras is sending signals that he might step down in August, a major aim of the Clinton Administration...
Judge Zilly's ruling heartened gay-rights activists. "Change in this policy is inevitable," said Joseph Steffan, whose 1987 expulsion from the U.S. Naval Academy on similar grounds was overturned by an appeals court late last year. "The only question is when, and decisions like this lead to the conclusion that it may be sooner rather than later." The military itself seems torn about whether to appeal the Cammermeyer verdict. "We have to press ahead," said one official. "If we let this decision stand . . . we'd be barred from enforcing our own policy." Yet Pentagon spokesman Dennis Boxx was more...
...realized I had a wonderful undergraduate education, and that part enabled me to function just as effectively as the naval officers trained at Annapolis," Manne says...
Bernard Rubin '44-'43, who transported tanksduring the war, joined the Navy through its V-7program, a war-time equivalent of the ReserveOfficer Training Corps (ROTC), which givesfinancial assistance to students. During the war,the naval recruits lived and trained in Eliot andKirkland Houses...
...Cambridge, because of Hitler, gender wasdestiny. Where Uncle Sam's finger pointed, Harvardstudents disappeared--or reappeared as look-alikesin a line of naval uniforms stretching, at drill,the length of the Yard. Males in a moment lostsafety, choice and freedom...