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...fraternity hazing and a trip through bedlam -eight weeks of abuse and instruction aimed at preparing the recruit for the even worse ordeal of war. Now the system may be changing. Convinced that men can be trained to fight for positive motivation rather than fear. Army brass at Fort Ord, Calif., are experimenting with a basic reform in basic training that could greatly change the armed forces and mark the end of the Sergeant Snorkel drill instructor...
...being tried out with two battalions of trainees (about 2,500 men), Fort Ord's merit program eliminates the most egregious indignities of the old-style boot camp. Arriving trainees are greeted courteously, not chivvied into their first formation by snarling sergeants. In place of the customary head shaving, they are given a choice of three suggested hair styles. Nor must they tolerate the name-calling and physical threats that have characterized basic training till now. Along with their green fatigues, recruits are issued laminated plastic "merit cards" on which their instructors can punch up to 50 points...
...living escalators, supplementary benefits for laid-off workers, a form of guaranteed annual income. Auto workers' wages rose from the 850 an hour that Reuther earned as a young tool-and-die maker in 1926 to an average of $4.03 now. His successor, with no such rec ord to call on, will be under far more rank-and-file pressure to prove that he is driving a hard bargain...
...first such action anywhere, a state has hauled the Federal Government into court for polluting water. California last week sued the commanding general of Fort Ord for dumping undisinfected sewage into Monterey Bay. The suit, filed in the state superior court, asks civil penalties of $6,000 for every day since Jan. 1 for ignoring a cease-and-desist order that was issued against Fort Ord by a water-quality-control board. If the court agrees that the base continued to pollute the bay, the Army would face a fine of nearly...
Although President Nixon ordered all federal facilities to end pollution-or to have antipollution programs under way-by 1972, California was not about to wait for Fort Ord to police itself. Instead, it brought suit under a new state law that gives the state attorney general power to act directly against all water polluters. "The law is very clear and constitutional. The Army is in violation of it," says Chief Deputy Attorney General Charles A. O'Brien. "We are now going to use our authority to attempt to stop water pollution in the state of California. If we succeed...