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...Combat units in the Army and Marines are made up mostly of enlisted personnel without the same opportunities. Some women do argue that any female who meets the physical requirements for combat units should be able to volunteer, but there is no sign of a ground swell. Captain Melea Riley, who commands a training battalion including both men and women at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, says, "I have never come across a woman who said she would like to be in a combat infantry unit." Cornum, the bemedaled flight surgeon, now back at Fort Rucker, Alabama, confirms that. "Personally...
...compound and what the FBI intended to do. Then suddenly Monday morning Richard Woodbury, our Houston bureau chief, found himself returning pell-mell up Highway 6 from a weekend at home, knowing that the patient journalistic groundwork was about to be tested. He and Atlanta bureau chief Michael Riley, Los Angeles correspondent Sally Donnelly and stringer Carlton Stowers stared at the hot ruins of David Koresh's compound and tried, like the rest of the nation, to understand the meanings, motives and mystical beliefs that had gone up in smoke. To start, they continued to work contacts within...
...that's about it. The plan avoids all the toughest issues. National testing of students or teachers? "We're not proposing ((that)) in any way," said Education Secretary Richard Riley. Equalization of funding between rich and poor districts within states? No mention. School choice, either by vouchers cashable at public or private schools as Republicans propose, or among public schools only, a la Clinton's campaign? Not a word...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Adam Zagorin Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson...
...much diversity, but too little: Clinton didn't work for ideological and political diversity as well as racial. The president didn't include a single Perot supporter among his Cabinet appointees. Most were old-line liberals, and only a few (Bruce Babbitt at Interior, Richard R. Riley at Education, Robert B. Reich at Labor, and possibly Les Aspin and Lloyd Bentsen at Defense and Treasury) could be considered New Democrats, who appeal more to Perot supporters...