Word: specialize
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Informal ties between Harvard and ROTC persist despite the Faculty's decision 21 years ago to oust the institution from campus. Harvard allows non-Harvard ROTC students to use the University's athletic facilities for training purposes, and Harvard students can participate in special ROTC graduation ceremonies on the Harvard campus. This despite the military's avowed policy of denying entrance to gays and lesbians and despite the University's official policy of not recognizing organizations that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation...
...decision might make Harvard unaffordable for many ROTC cadets; it would also extend the University's influence into the realm of students' personal lives. No longer would Harvard be just opposing discrimination; it would be using economic leverage to force students to change their activities. Just as students receive special money from discriminatory Harvard-based scholarships, ROTC cadets should be permitted to use ROTC money...
...Hanoi? Why does Washington support the murderous Khmer Rouge today? These questions are addressed in this week's issue. They will also be pursued in a joint ABC-TIME forum moderated by Peter Jennings this Thursday, April 26, at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Following a 10 p.m. ABC News special on Vietnam, Jennings, with Cloud, will lead a discussion of U.S. policy toward Indochina. Other guests will include Henry Kissinger, General William Westmoreland, Nebraska Senator and Vietnam veteran Robert Kerrey and former Lieut. William Calley, the U.S. commander during the My Lai massacre. The show should be a useful complement...
...Ruslan Widjayasastra, 72, both party Central Committee members; I. Bungkus, 61, a sergeant in Sukarno's elite security guard; Marsudi, 53, a sergeant major in the air force; Sukatno, 61, chairman of the party's youth organization; and Asep Suryaman, 62, an alleged member of the party's "special bureau," which was responsible for building links with the military. Since 1985, at least 20 prisoners have been executed for alleged involvement in the long-ago uprising or for membership in the Communist Party...
Arocha said that the committee has been encouraged by the sale of 35,000 special subway and bus tickets sold for the event...