Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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ADDITIONAL pressure will not merely be symbolic. The movement for reforming the armed services is gaining on numerous college campuses-including MIT, home base for Harvard ROTC cadets--and even within the Pentagon itself. A recent Defense Department report--squelched by Pentagon officials--concluded that there was no defensible reason to continue excluding gays and lesbians. Yet the unjust military policy continues...
...coming U.S. defense cuts will bring wrenching changes in America's sprawling military-industrial base, whose $120 billion in annual revenues is larger than the entire economy of Sweden. The shrinkage will effect more than 250,000 firms in 215 industries, ranging from the shipbuilders that construct aircraft carriers to the clothing companies that sew uniforms. Says Frank Shrontz, chairman of Boeing, the ninth largest U.S. defense contractor: "We are going to face a broad realignment across the whole defense spectrum, and I can't tell where that's going to hit us hardest...
...Vice President, Quayle has established a right-wing base again, choosing a hard-line and activist staff (unlike Vice President Bush's bland low-profile aides). The number of Ph.D.s is emphasized by his press office (two for Carnes Lord, his national security aide). He recruited from the ranks of believers in the cold war, just before that war's demise, surrounding himself with those who have an investment in it. His chief of staff, William Kristol, is the son of neoconservative Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb and is a former aide to William Bennett. Quayle is comfortable with intelligence...
...want the musicians to have the feeling that they are at home, that they are playing together, that they are at the musical center of that big city." After seeing the Leipzig orchestra through its 250th birthday in 1993-94, Masur is expected to make New York his principal base...
This week Solidarity will hold its first congress since 1981. Walesa will certainly be re-elected leader of the trade union, and that will give him a base to further his political ambitions. That now seems to be what most interests the man who led the Polish struggle to overthrow communism...