Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, the reason for delay became clear: the President's new space policy so downplayed the role of NASA, once the unchallenged ruler of the space program, that NASA Administrator James Fletcher had been waging a last- ditch fight against aspects of it. Even so, in the end good soldier Fletcher declared, "We're all working together. The military is going to be in space, science is going to be there, but the private sector is also going to be there in a much more serious...
Which is what Thesiger has been saying and doing in a big way for more than half a century. His adventures as an explorer and soldier in the legendary tradition of Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence are recorded in his books Arabian Sands (1959), The Marsh Arabs (1964) and The Last Nomad (1980). These celebrated works are distinguished by a direct and bone-dry style that balances Thesiger's luxuriantly romantic relish for tribal peoples and desolate places. The Life of My Choice says goodbye to all that and good riddance to the 20th century and its airships, land...
...Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California dismayed the Reagan Administration by doing just that in the nettlesome debate of the military vs. homosexuals. In 1980 the court upheld the Navy's discharge of three people accused of homosexual conduct. In 1981 it ruled against a soldier who charged the Army with selective prosecution because the military antisodomy law was not being enforced in heterosexual cases. This time, however, Judges William Norris and William Canby sided with openly gay Sergeant Perry Watkins, 39. They said the Army had improperly refused to re-enlist him and marshaled constitutional reasoning that could...
...soldier said he asked the cameraman, Ofir Moradov, to stop filming a protest, but NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher said Moradov did not hear the request. The army said the soldier was convicted of "unbecoming conduct," but would not reveal his name or the sentence...