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Maybe these saucy lads and lasses are merely a misunder-stood band of Realists ready to defend the fort against rabid Continetal philosphers clutching copies of Sartre, Foucault, Kuhn and Rorty? If so, these intellectual roues deserve much adulation. Actually, Peninsula seems much more interested in debates about homosexuality than abstract issues in epistimology. But, it is in the best tradition of the public intellectual to lend one's mind to social debates of import, so let's see what they...
...squabble began in late February, when the Pentagon told the independent base-closing commission it wants to shutter Fort McClellan's 46,000 acres, nestled in the Appalachian foothills just outside the city of Anniston. Most of its operations, including the military's police and chemical schools, would be sent 350 miles north to Fort Leonard Wood, 63,000 acres of Ozarks wrapped by a national forest and near a few tiny towns...
...recent recommendation by the Pentagon to move the world's only known school using lethal nerve agents from Fort McClellan in Alabama to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri has sparked a ferocious public relations battle. As Alabama partisans engage in guerrilla warfare to sabotage the move and keep the facility, Missouri is in such a rush to claim the prize that some of its citizens fear the state is cutting corners and keeping them in the dark...
That prospect dumbfounded Fort McClellan's backers. But they had a strategy. The Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce -- petrified at the impending loss of 10,000 jobs, representing 17% of the region's work force -- hired a Michigan firm to quiz Missourians about their prospective new neighbor. "Missouri said there was no public concern about this, and we decided to take the poll and find out for sure," says chamber official David Sylvester. "We found out that people didn't know it was happening...
...Clinton is painfully aware of the mischief the detainees could make if they had no hope at all. Riots by Cuban refugees held at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas helped cost him re-election as governor in 1980. "The decision was driven by the Pentagon saying, 'This costs us a million dollars a day, and it's going to be a disaster come summer,'" explained a senior White House official...