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Article: Boy Scouts Jamboree to stay at Army base; Pentagon forbids direct support.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2004
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Byline: Jon Ward and Arlo Wagner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Boy Scouts Jamboree, which draws tens of thousands of Scouts and their leaders to Virginia's Fort A.P. Hill Army base every four years, will go on as planned this summer, despite a court settlement announced Monday that requires military bases and units to withhold official support from the Boy Scouts.
"There will be no effect on the Jamboree," said Bob Bork, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America. "We don't anticipate any problem with that."
The Pentagon and a spokesman at Fort A.P. Hill confirmed that the Jamboree, a quadrennial gathering of more than 40,000 Boy Scouts and ...