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Police Corps
"The enemy: rising crime in urban America, coupled with police brutality and corruption. The man with answer: a former Robert F. Kennedy aide who had turned crime crusader. Eventually heeding the constant lobbying of Adam Walinsky, Congress finally created the Police Corps training program to create an elite generation of sophisticated, college-educated officers. But with lax oversight at the U.S. Department of Justice, state and federal program administrators relied on Walinsky for guidance. The result: a rogue program that after $54 million had put only 246 cops on the street. What's more, Walinsky's influence took a controversial path of militaristic, boot-vamp style of training, including sleep deprivation, Hell Week endurance tests and live-fire over cadets' heads."
Tags: police training; FOIA; criminal justice; Florida State University; university graduates into neighborhood cops; Outward Bound training style; character; commando; ROTC for police; sleep deprivation; National Institute on Justice
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"Norwich Severs Ties With Indonesia"
In two articles submitted on a free-lance basis to the Boston Globe and the Vermont Times (see story # 16096), the reporter traced how graduates from an elite New England military school were serving in East Timor around the time of heated conflict in Indonesia. Several high-ranking members of the Indonesian military's elite special forces who had been accused of human rights violations were linked to administrators at the school. The investigation called into question a United States presidential ban on cooperation with the Indonesian military, and led to the reporter's firing from a daily newspaper.
Tags: Kopassus UN United Nations Norwich University Human Rights Watch ROTC Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
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"Indonesian Army Recruits training in Vermont: Students at private military school linked to 'most feared, most abusive' special force" and "Lawmakers urge probe of Norwich program: Training of Indonesian students cited"
In two articles submitted on a free-lance basis to the Boston Globe and the Vermont Times (see story # 16097), the reporter traced how graduates from an elite New England military school were serving in East Timor around the time of heated conflict in Indonesia. Several high-ranking members of the Indonesian military's elite special forces who had been accused of human rights violations were linked to administrators at the school. The investigation called into question a United States presidential ban on cooperation with the Indonesian military, and led to the reporter's firing from a daily newspaper.
Tags: Kopassus UN United Nations Norwich University Human Rights Watch ROTC Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
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Beyond the GI Bill
The National Journal reports how "a shortfall in recruiting has prompted the Pentagon and Congress to look at radical changes designed to make the GI Bill a better deal for troops. Fifty-five years after the World War II bill, 15 years after the Montgomery GI Bill, the very trends the military and Congress helped set in motion - mass access to college, continuing adult education, financial aid from employers - have spread so far as to undermine the GI Bill's fundamental assumption: that most high school graduates can't go on to college without the military's help."
Tags: Military; financial aid; college; higher education; ROTC
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A Study in Survival: How at-risk children make the grade
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch profiles several students in at-risk situations due to poverty, family problems, ghetto life and its violence or inadequate schools; describes how they cope with 'life on the edge' and struggle to make a better life for themselves, Feb. 27, 1994.
Tags: Minorities; Guns; Drugs; at-risk children; ROTC; youth gangs; public high schools; poverty
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No title (id: 10393)
Z Magazine discusses how the Department of Defense is using its ROTC programs in high schools around the country as a public relations campaign, militarizing youth and bringing an assortment of problems; also discloses problems with funding and discrimination within the program, June 1994.
Tags: CA Rohrer 5 pages