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...would have been a simple matter to melodramatize or caricature these soldiers' stories. But Atkinson maintains a tone of scrupulous neutrality, and he never loses the Point of his narrative. All along, his greatest character is the military academy itself, sustained by patriotic zeal in the '50s, pocked by controversy in the '60s and cheating scandals in the '70s, yielding in the '80s to a new national temper. Today women are admitted, there is a , course in ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school...
...which has long provided aid to the non-Communist forces of Sihanouk and Son Sann and has not ruled out military assistance in the future, similarly argues that Hun Sen heads an illegitimate administration imposed by a foreign power. In its anti-Vietnamese zeal, Washington overlooked Sihanouk's alliance with the Khmer Rouge, which did most of the fighting during eleven years of guerrilla opposition. The Bush Administration is left in the uncomfortable position of backing a mercurial prince who remains aligned with men bent on restoring an odious regime. But the Administration maintains, with good reason, that any settlement...
...latter half of this decade it has become too apparent that the conservative right is no longer willing to tolerate affirmative action policies as a means of redressing past injustices. This harsh new era has also seen the zeal of the Civil Rights Movement wane in a generation that did not experience the horrors of sanctioned and institutionalized racism...
SOUTH CAROLINA. While Arkansas' reform zeal is flagging, South Carolina seems to be catching its second wind. In June the legislature adopted "Target 2000," the second installment of the Education Improvement Act of 1984. The bill not only continues support for most of the act's original programs, it actually expands many of them. Says David Beasley, chairman of the house education and public works committee: "We've kept the heat on and the excitement rolling...
...thanks to American ingenuity, another means of thwarting the unflagging zeal of those who might enjoy seeing the flag go up in flames may be at hand. Servpro Industries of Gallatin, Tenn., a residential and commercial cleaning franchiser, is offering to fireproof its customers' flags by spraying them with a flame retardant guaranteed to protect cloth from temperatures of more than 3,000 degrees...