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- NATION, Page 23American NotesARMYBlowing Taps For ROTC
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- The collapse of the Soviet threat in Eastern Europe has sent
- shock waves through the White House, the Congress and the
- Pentagon. Now shock wavelets are about to hit many American
- campuses. The Army has disclosed that because it is reducing
- its forces and will no longer need as many officers, it will
- shut down Reserve Officers Training Corps programs at 50 (out
- of 413) colleges and universities by summer of next year. The
- closings are expected to save $23 million a year.
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- Most of the programs targeted for cancellation commissioned
- only a few officers each year. Among them is Westminster
- College in Fulton, Mo., where Winston Churchill delivered his
- historic Iron Curtain speech in 1946. Since the college had
- only seven cadets last year, the shutdown "didn't come as a
- complete surprise" to President Harvey Saunders. Still, says
- Saunders, "I'm sad to see the tradition go."
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