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By Sara Neufeld | January 10, 2008
Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter had never spoken at a high school before. But when U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings asked him to take a few hours out of his busy schedule to drive to West Baltimore and speak at a school with a maritime focus, Winter was happy to oblige. After all, he said, the Navy ought to be looking for younger recruits. Between the time the visit was scheduled and the time Winter appeared at the school yesterday, a lot happened at Maritime Industries Academy. Accused of grade falsification and letting a student teach classes, Principal Marco T. Clark has, over the past three weeks, resigned, changed his mind and tried to rescind the resignation.
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By Bradley Olson | April 14, 2007
The defense team of Lamar S. Owens Jr., the former quarterback who was convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer for having sex with a female classmate in the Naval Academy dormitory, vowed yesterday to fight his expulsion and the requirement that he repay more than $90,000 in education costs. In a written statement, Reid Weingarten, Owens' civilian defense attorney, said he was "extremely disappointed" with Navy Secretary Donald Winter's decision because the Savannah, Ga., native was acquitted in July of rape.
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By Bradley Olson | April 13, 2007
Lamar S. Owens Jr., the former Navy quarterback who was convicted of two felonies after having sex with a female classmate in the Naval Academy dormitory, will be expelled with no degree and will owe the school more than $90,000, Navy officials said yesterday. The Navy secretary, Donald C. Winter, deemed his conduct "unsatisfactory" and ordered him discharged, though Owens, 23, was acquitted in July of rape and supporters had launched a campaign in his behalf of letter-writing, organizing on the Internet and lobbying in Annapolis and Washington.
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By Bradley Olson | April 8, 2007
A former Navy quarterback who was acquitted of rape and now faces expulsion from the Naval Academy took his case to Washington last week, urging members of Congress to support his attempts to graduate and become an officer. Securing the free assistance of several people from lobbying giant Cassidy & Associates is the latest step for Lamar S. Owens Jr.'s supporters, a group that includes a growing number of academy alumni with a wide range of influence garnered from prominent careers in the public and private sectors.
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By Julian E. Barnes | January 29, 2007
Washington -- Prominent Democratic senators who are against the troop buildup in Iraq took issue yesterday with criticism from Bush administration officials who contend that opposition to the president's new strategy will embolden the enemy. "It's not the American people or the United States Congress who are emboldening the enemy," said Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's the failed policy of this president - going to war without a strategy, going to war prematurely."
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By Tom Bowman | April 1, 2005
WASHINGTON - Navy Secretary Gordon R. England, who grew up in a working-class home in West Baltimore and worked his way through the University of Maryland, was nominated by President Bush yesterday to become the No. 2 official at the Pentagon, taking over for Paul Wolfowitz, who was named yesterday to lead the World Bank. "I am honored and humbled to have been selected by the President as his nominee for the post of deputy secretary of defense," England said in a statement. "It has been a profound honor to serve our brave sailors and Marines and their families as secretary of the Navy."
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By Tom Pelton | March 17, 2005
Under fire from Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski and others, the Navy backed away yesterday from a proposal to resume bombing, strafing and live-fire military exercises on an island in the Chesapeake Bay. During a Senate subcommittee hearing on the Navy's budget yesterday, Mikulski told Navy Secretary Gordon England that the residents of Maryland's Eastern Shore were agitated about the proposal, first reported March 4 in The Sun. "Remember, they fought off...
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By E.A. Torriero | July 9, 2004
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - As the United States freed the first detainee since last week's Supreme Court ruling that such individuals have a right to take their cases to court, the Navy secretary arrived here yesterday to oversee a process that could result in the release of dozens more prisoners in coming weeks. Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali, a 25-year-old Swede, was whisked away under heavy security by a Swedish charter plane in the middle of the night. He was captured in Pakistan in the company of Taliban fighters in 2001 and had been held in secret since January 2002.
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By Tom Bowman | December 1, 2000
WASHINGTON - They appeared overnight along the wood-paneled hallways of the Pentagon, like symbols from some ancient civilization. Along the Army's corridor is a picture of a mule kicking a goat, the lines as graceful as a cave painting's. Nearby is a yellow pennant bearing the words "West Point" and a sign, "Army Rules." One floor above, amid the model ships and oil paintings of Navy secretaries, is a single blue and gold pompom, a talisman hanging from the door of Cmdr. Robert Girrier, a 1983 graduate and administrative assistant to Navy Secretary Richard Danzig.
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By Tom Bowman | June 25, 1999
WASHINGTON -- This month, in the North Atlantic waters and in a speech by the Navy's top official, came the first tones of the death knell for one of the last male preserves: the submarine.About 144 female Navy ROTC midshipmen are spending 48 hours with male sailors on five submarines, a first for Navy women. Space restrictions now prevent them from serving in the so-called Silent Service.Meanwhile, Navy Secretary Richard Danzig created a stir before the Naval Submarine League Symposium when he called submarines a "white male bastion."