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...these protestations, pinning has a long history in the corps, and a few young jarheads last week jokingly called it a "Marine sewing circle," insisting that the ritual is an integral part of Marine bonding. But even some men who have been pinned warn that the tapes depict a form of hazing far more vicious than the customary single punch. Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general who lectures on national security at Harvard, has fond memories of the day he received his punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part...
...previously has refused to link food aid to negotiations. Any aid carries painful political baggage for North Korea, which was forced to back down earlier this week from its official "socialist paradise" ideology with a public admission that severe grain harvest shortfalls were causing "temporary food problems." Relief workers warn that North Korea is headed toward a famine which would surpass even the 1985 Ethiopian food crisis, with potential victims numbering in the tens of millions...
...insights have begun to infuse new passion into the political debate over early education and day care. There is an urgent need, say child-development experts, for preschool programs designed to boost the brain power of youngsters born into impoverished rural and inner-city households. Without such programs, they warn, the current drive to curtail welfare costs by pushing mothers with infants and toddlers into the work force may well backfire. "There is a time scale to brain development, and the most important year is the first," notes Frank Newman, president of the Education Commission of the States...
...year it registered a paltry 2.2% increase as Fujimori tried to tackle a massive debt. Economists estimate that as much as 75% of the population languishes in lower-class status. Jobs have disappeared; the cost of public services has shot up. As a result, even those close to Fujimori warn against interpreting his welcome in pueblos jovenes as blanket backing. "He shows up in neighborhoods where not many people have work," says one skeptical adviser, "and it's the day's entertainment. Of course they are going to come out and wave." Like Marcial Surco in San Juan de Amancaes...
...death of pilot Major Donald Lowry Jr. [NATION, Dec. 2]. It is truly incredible that the Air Force pursued these two men, when in essence it was the Air Force itself that took no steps to fix the flight-control rods so they could not be misconnected and to warn mechanics of the problem. This was a double tragedy; the suicide of Mueller and the death of Lowry could easily have been prevented by the Air Force. RICHARD L. MULLINS JR. Auburn, Alabama...