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What you wrote about was not "normal" Marine hazing. It was the special pinning ceremony engaged in by Marine Force Recon, one of America's toughest and most elite warrior units. These men are all volunteers and eagerly look forward to the day when they win their gold parachutist's wings. I doubt that many look forward to the "ceremony" that accompanies the wings, but all look back with pride on enduring it. The ritual is not unlike the ceremony that American Indians went through when they entered manhood. GARRETT C. DAILEY Oakland, California...
...great economic changes caused by an industrial society giving way to the information age, and weave everything into a coherent national challenge with a language of hope and inspiration. Only one President so far has managed to do that. He was the muscular Theodore Roosevelt--rancher, explorer, author, hunter, warrior--who defined by his intelligence and personal exuberance America's arrival as the world's greatest mover and shaker. But even T.R. confessed that his success was based on the fact that the U.S. was in a "heroic mood" that came 20 years after Hayes was President. Is the nation...
Military authorities insist that they will do all they can to prevent such hazing in the future. "If they think that the leadership of the Marine Corps believes that beating on their fellow Marine makes for a better warrior, they'd better find themselves a new occupation," said an angry General Charles Krulak, commander of the 174,000-strong Marine Corps. The new Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, declared himself "disturbed and disgusted" by the hazing and was forced to devote much of his very first Pentagon press conference to the stabbing scandal...
DIED. A. RICHARDSON GOODLATTE, 57, New York City's successful anti-subway graffiti warrior; of cancer; in Huntington, New York. Their work scrubbed out as soon as they scribbled, graffitists threw in the spray...
...that her philosophy has been shaped by early life experiences of fleeing Nazis and Communists. But America's next secretary of state should be someone who considers the limitations of U.S. power and the often ambiguous nature of U.S. military interventions instead of relying on outdated hard-line cold warrior instincts...