Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure last month that would eliminate Defense Department funding of universities with "anti-ROTC policies...
Some inside the Beltway say it appears that Harvard, which booted the ROTC program off campus more than two decades ago, would be in violation of the language of the measure, jeopardizing the $12 million in research monies the University receives from the Defense Department each year...
...House approved the measure in support of ROTC last month as an amendment to the Fiscal 1996 Defense Authorization Bill. The amendment passed decisively, by a vote of 302-125. The House approved the bill several days later by a vote...
...Koernke went on and on about some grim fantasy, Martinez feared he "might have some sort of chemical imbalance." But the two stayed friends. Martinez was Koernke's best man when he married Nancy Wise, a home-economics student he had met while peddling chocolate-chip cookies at an rotc bake sale. At about the same time, however, Koernke's college career derailed. Nancy Koernke attributes this to the effect of nasa cutbacks in the mid-'70s. "He didn't seem as happy after that," she says. "At first his grades had been really good, but [then] they started...
...spring of 1980, recalls his wife, and they were sitting on a porch swing with their young daughter. "He came back one weekend and was troubled," she says. "It was visible-I could see it in his face that there was something wrong." An old friend from rotc had approached him, he told her, enthusing about "a great new job offer" that he had assumed Koernke knew of too. "Basically what it was," she says, "was that they were to secure an 'open-air camp,' a facility for men, women and children. And [Mark] asked, 'Well, what country is this...