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...Rudenstine finished his first year as president, he watched the May 1992 ROTC deadline creep closer. The Faculty was busy avoiding taking action, electing instead to allow six-month extension on a report on the issue...
...Ride into the Secret Heart of B.C.C.I. (Random House), by investigative reporter Jonathan Beaty and senior editor S.C. Gwynne, who were among the first journalists to seize on the serpentine elements of this global scandal. After writing nearly a score of penetrating TIME articles, Beaty and Gwynne took a six-month leave of absence and, working from 750 lbs. of documents and notes, transformed a forbiddingly complex news story into a dramatic account of one of the most alarming criminal conspiracies of modern times...
SCIENTISTS HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT EVEN modest amounts of lead in children's blood can result in nasty learning problems. What they didn't know was whether the damage was reversible once the lead was removed. Well, it certainly helps, according to a six-month study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers studied 154 children with moderate lead poisoning and found that when blood lead levels were reduced, IQ scores rose an average of three points...
President Clinton bought time in dealing with this issue by allowing Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) to hold Senate hearings before the ban is formally rescinded. But it would be a perilous mistake for Clinton to ignore the issue until his six-month grace period expires and then to attempt an immediate reversal of policy...
...that point, Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin stepped in to mediate, proposing a compromise in which Clinton would "instruct" Aspin to draft the Executive Order over a six-month period. Aspin sold the plan to Clinton at a Blair House meeting three days before the Inauguration, but that too was leaked before Aspin met with the Chiefs. When he did, he discovered that the Chiefs had grown much more resistant. Aspin's attempts to keep the Chiefs on board failed during a stormy two-hour session in the top-secret, soundproof "tank" at the Pentagon...