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Experienced officers and NCOS are quitting for a number of reasons. Reports TIME Pentagon Correspondent Don Sider: "Many are dissatisfied with the quality of the troops they are getting and of the training they are able to give. They feel they spend too few hours in the cockpit or fire too few artillery practice rounds or take their recruits too few miles on marches. In addition, the professional military man's morale has suffered because of prolonged separations from family. The 144-day Indian Ocean patrol by the Nimitz is but an extreme example of what is happening more...
Evangelicals for Social Action, a low-key group headed by Ronald Sider of Eastern Baptist Seminary, sides with the conservatives on the need for family protection and the dangers of abortion. But criticizing the groups' other views, Sider says: "If human life is sacred then surely this means something about the nuclear arms race, too. In Scripture, the social question mentioned most often is the plight of the poor." Agrees Jim Wallis, editor of the radical Sojourners magazine: "In the activities of the Christian right, all that remains of Jesus is his name." But Christian Voice's Richard...
Alan Baron, editor of The Baron Report, among other participants, indirectly connected George Bush to this theory during a subsequent discussion. He suggested that journalists "should go back and examine the records" of such "out-sider" candidates who have little or no experience as elected national figures...
...Washington-based Correspondent Don Sider, reporting this week's cover story on the state of the nation's defense required a four-week investigative campaign that included interviews with most of the Pentagon's top brass. All told, Sider met face to face with 45 military experts, including David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Defense Secretary Harold Brown; and NATO Commander Bernard W. Rogers. "There's a certain affinity that reporters and military folks have for each other," Sider observes...
...Sider that understanding runs particularly deep. He was introduced to the military at the age of six-at Wyler Military Academy in Evansville, Wis. Though his mid-1950s Army stint as a public information specialist provided little in the way of battleground adventure, his 16 months as a TIME war correspondent in Viet Nam did. Says Sider, who was wounded in the neck near the Laotian border: "It was the thrilling Hemingway life at last: danger, excitement and mud." On a working vacation last July, Sider took a flying leap into another Army experience: paratrooper training at the Fort Benning...