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	Encyclopedia: Champagne unit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Champagne unit is a pejorative term used to describe US Military units staffed by celebrities or people from wealthy or politically powerful families.
		Such units are often part of the National Guard, and assigned to lower-risk duty inside the United States.
		The connotation is that such units are havens for those with connections who wish to avoid conscription into more dangerous duty while still gaining the prestige afforded in the United States to military service.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Champagne-unit (235 words)

	Nation's Restaurant News: Champagne French Bakery Cafe brings taste of France to U.S. shores
		Champagne French Bakery Cafe has an average per-person check of $9 and a menu that includes a wide variety of French pastries and dishes, including crepes, quiches, tartines, paninis and baguette sandwiches.
		Champagne French Bakery Cafe is the brainchild of co-founder and master pastry chef Pautrat, who grew up in the Champagne region of France.
		The average Champagne unit is approximately 1,800 to 2,000 square feet.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3190/is_33_38/ai_n6160728 (1155 words)

	George W. Bush military service controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bush's six-year obligation to serve required him to maintain his immediate readiness as an individual and a member of a unit to be called to active duty in the event of a national emergency.
		The unit in which Bush served was known as a "Champagne unit," where the scions of the Texas aristocracy could avoid combat duty with relatively few demands on their time.
		Janet Linke, the widow of the pilot who replaced Bush in the Texas unit, said in a recent interview that she (and her husband) had been privy to adverse comments about Bush's performance from his commanding officer: "He was mucking up bad, Killian told us," Linke said.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_W._Bush_military_service_controversy (4774 words)

	ipedia.com: Conscription Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The United States came close to drafting women into the Nurse Corps in preparation for a planned invasion of Japan; the atomic bomb and the Japanese surrender made this unnecessary.
		When the United States began mobilizing in 1940, in response to the threat from Nazi Germany, the first peacetime draft in its history was introduced.
		The fact that some were able to use their family's connections to gain a position when spots in the guard were limited also led to a perception that the wealthy were using the National Guard to ensure that their children were assigned low risk duty in the states.
	www.ipedia.com /conscription.html (3433 words)

	Articles - Conscription (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The United States came close to drafting women into the Nurse Corps in preparation for a planned invasion of Japan; the Japanese surrender made this unnecessary.
		Males between the age of 18 and 32 are drawn by lottery to serve in The Bermuda Regiment for a period of 38 months.
		Therefore the elite units of all armies which have conscription, are composed entirely of selected volunteers, such as Parachute Rangers in the Finnish army.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Conscription (6845 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Dishonor Guard. by Paul Waldman. January 26, 2004. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But with the notable exception of those who came across a brief story by The Washington Post's David Broder, who actually explained the controversy, the typical news reader would be hard pressed to discern that, depending on what your definition of "desertion" is (call it AWOL if you like), Moore was exactly right.
		Bush requested a transfer to a unit in Alabama so that he could work on a Senate race there, and a transfer he was granted.
		But in May of 1973, his superiors there reported that they were unable to conduct his yearly evaluation because "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2004/01/waldman-p-01-26.html (1155 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Champagne does get you drunk faster
		Many people say that champagne bubbles "go straight to their head", making them giggly and light-headed.
		Fran Ridout and a team in the human psychopharmacology unit at the University of Surrey in Guildford threw a couple of "drinks parties" for volunteers in their department.
		She gave champagne to 12 volunteers - half drank fizzy champagne and the other half had flat champagne, purged of its bubbles beforehand with a whisk.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn1717 (568 words)

	FinestWine: Order Taittinger, Champagne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1734, Jacques Fourneaux, a merchant of wine champagne, joined the great adventure of the champagne trade.The company prospered throughout the 19th century and after the First World War moved to the fine 13th century historical residence located on rue de Tambour: "The House of the Counts of Champagne".
		In around 1912, Pierre-Charles Taittinger was running a business involved in the distribution and export of champagne with one of his brothers-in-law.
		Since then Claude Taittinger has presided over the destiny of one of the last great champagne houses to bear the name of the family that runs it, he overseeing the quality of its products in line with tradition.
	www.finestwine.com /english/advanced_search.asp?vineyard=Taittinger&beverage=champagne (439 words)

	Sham Chougule: The wine maker
		His work took him overseas quite frequently, and during one of these visits in 1980 he conceived of a project to make sparkling wine using the méthode champenoise -- legend has it over a dinner with some French engineers when the latter derided the concept of "wine in India".
		This resulted in the setting-up of vineyards and a winery at Narayangaon (on the Pune-Nashik road) and the launch of Omar Khayyam sparkling wine for export in 1986.
		Today, Champagne Indage Ltd (as the company is called after restructuring) is the market leader in wines in India with a total production of about 100,000 cases and a turnover of about Rs 300 million.
	inhome.rediff.com /money/2005/apr/09spec4.htm (463 words)

	Bush’s War Stories Simply Don’t Fly : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bush claims that, after learning to fly the F-102 fighter jet, he was turned down for Vietnam duty because "had not logged enough flight hours" to qualify for a combat assignment.
		He claims to have continued to serve in an Alabama Guard unit, but there is no evidence to support that assertion, and much contradictory evidence.
		Bush’s claim that he "continued flying with my unit for the next several years" is an unabashed falsehood.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1676029 (831 words)

	Champagne unit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(additional info and facts about Pejorative) Pejorative term used to describe (additional info and facts about US Military) US Military units staffed by celebrities or people from wealthy or politically powerful families.
		Such units are often part of the (United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either) National Guard, and assigned to lower-risk duty inside the United States.
		The connotation is that such units are havens for those with connections who wish to avoid (Compulsory military service) conscription into more dangerous duty while still gaining the prestige afforded in the United States to military service.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/champagne_unit.htm (114 words)

	Starwood buys champagne firm to get hotels - Boston.com - Europe - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		U.S. firm Starwood Capital is buying majority stakes in the French companies behind Taittinger champagne and the palatial Paris hotel Le Crillon in a deal valued at around 2.5 billion euros ($3 billion).
		Starwood Chairman and Chief Executive Barry Sternlicht said in a statement the main focus was to expand the hotels business into areas such as eastern Europe and to renovate some of the portfolio's luxury hotels.
		His company is seeking advice from the Taittinger family on how best to dispose of the champagne unit.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/22/starwood_buys_champagne_firm_taittinger?mode=PF (589 words)

	The Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Governor Ben Barnes, who got Bush out of Vietnam and into the "Champagne Unit," will tell Dan Rather how ashamed he is of that act of kindness to a privileged constituent.
		Granted, this is so many years after the fact, and it comes off as somewhat sleazy to trot this washed up pol before the cameras -- oh, and you can be sure the Kerry campaign has sanctioned this guy, to kill the Swifty momentum.
		The Kerry champagne has now found it's proper intensity, the (air quotes) Eye of the Tiger," if you will.
	ronmwangaguhunga.blogspot.com /2004/09/george-bush-in-champagne-unit-on-60.html (624 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - W left Guard unit too soon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Air Force quickly rejected Bush's request, saying the fighter pilot was "ineligible" to move to the Alabama unit Bush wanted - a squadron of postal handlers.
		Bush's unit, dubbed the Champagne Unit, included the sons of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Gov. John Connally, as well as several members of the Dallas Cowboys.
		May 24 Bush seeks permission to be transferred to an Alabama Reserve postal unit so he can work on Senate campaign of family friend Winton (Red) Blount.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/v-pfriendly/story/163815p-143464c.html (968 words)

	UNCoRRELATED: Due Respect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Barnes apparently told close friends that he recommended Bush for a pilot's slot during the Vietnam War because he was eager to "collect chits" from an influential political family.
		There's been a long-running stink over how Bush got a slot in an outfit known as the "Champagne Unit" because it included so many sons of prominent Texans.
		The Boston Globe reporting today that National Guard units across the country have about half their usual equipment.
	www.uncorrelated.com /archives/2005/09/due_respect.html (342 words)

	Air Force Times - News - This Week's Air Force Times
		Thirty-eight percent of the 1.73 million men drafted between 1965 and 1973 served in Vietnam, and draftees accounted for 30.4 percent of the war’s 58,245 combat deaths.
		That was rejected because Bush was obligated to serve as a Ready Reservist until May 26, 1974, and was ineligible for assignment to the Air Reserve.
		Two months earlier, on June 30, Bush signed a statement promising that if he left his Texas Ready Reserve unit, “it is my responsibility to locate and be assigned to another Reserve Forces unit or mobilization augmentation position.
	www.airforcetimes.com /story.php?f=1-AIRPAPER-357916.php (1829 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Ex-airmen douse rumorsover Bush's Guard service
		One website that's growing in popularity, www.awolbush.com, alleges Bush not only shirked his duties at the Alabama base but also his home base in Texas, where it says he sought safe refuge from the Vietnam war in a so-called champagne unit for sons of the political elite.
		Still, most were at a loss to explain gaps in Bush's pay record while in Alabama, where he transferred to a non-flying unit for about six months in 1972 to work on the political campaign of a family friend.
		The 147th has been dubbed the "champagne unit" by critics because many sons of powerful Texans got assigned there during the Vietnam War, including the late Gov. John Connally's son and both of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen's.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37162 (3174 words)

	Audiophile Systems Review # (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The unit was re-reviewed in the "Follow Up" section of the Stereophile in 1995 and got even better reviews than its predecessor, Premier 11.
		There is a large switch on the front of the unit to switch it on and off.
		It was quite musical, but after the unit had broken in (60 hours of play), the amp became extremely detailed, more musical and accurate.
	www.sdinfo.com /volume_3_1/v3n1d.html (3450 words)

	Champagne unit - TheBestLinks.com - Dallas Cowboys, George W. Bush, Texas, United States Democratic Party, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	USNews.com: Bush and Kerry: In 1971, a year that rocked America, two scions of famous families come of age (5/3/04)
		And the Texas Air National Guard's 147th Fighter Group, which Bush had joined upon graduating from Yale in 1968, was populated largely by other sons of privilege.
		The "champagne unit" included Lloyd Bentsen III (whose father had defeated the elder Bush in the 1970 Senate race) and John Connally III (son of the former Texas governor).
		He may have benefited from family connections in landing an officer's spot in the unit, but he excelled as a first lieutenant.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/040503/3bushkerry_5.htm (430 words)

	Wine Appreciation Guild: Wine Accessories, Wine Cellars and Racks, Books on Wine
		A dual wine/Champagne unit maintains the "fizz" in Sparkling Wines.
		A pump removes the oxygen from the bottle creating a vacuum, which is sealed by a special rubber stopper.
		The new and most reliable Champagne resealer now used by the major Champagne houses.
	www.wineappreciation.com /preservation_vacuvin.htm (454 words)

	Arianna Online Forums - Bush not much of a soldier, as records shows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Guard on Bush: “George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn’t get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed....
		FYI, my particular NG unit was one of the FIRST units PERIOD, to be sent to the Phillipines during WWII, and, the entire time that I served there, we received combat ready status grading every year.
		A few years after I was discharged, my unit was sent to the Gulf War.
	www.ariannaonline.com /forums/printthread.php?t=9066 (1834 words)

	DePauw University News
		Professor Bode writes, "Evidence indicates that Bush did have political help in jumping over a waiting list of about 500 to enter what was called the 'champagne unit' of the Texas Guard, joining the sons of Treasury Secretary John Connally and Sen. Lloyd Bentsen.
		But when the president said on Meet the Press that if his unit had been activated he would have gone to Vietnam, he was really misleading the public.
		The Champagne Unit was a haven from Vietnam.
	www.depauw.edu /news/index.asp?id=380303748148148 (297 words)

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		The second unit, named Champagne Sands, is a single story Luxury Condo with all the comforts of home.
		Pets are allowed in the two story unit only with additional deposit and permission of the owners.
	www.greatrentals.com /CA/6785.html (752 words)

	Democrat Says He Helped Bush Into Guard to Score Points (washingtonpost.com)
		A former senior politician from Texas has told close friends that he recommended George W. Bush for a pilot's slot in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War because he was eager to "collect chits" from an influential political family.
		Lloyd M. Bentsen III, a Texas venture capitalist who joined the Guard at the same time as Bush, said that allegations of nepotism were ridiculous, at least in his case.
		He said that he applied for the post of accounting and finance officer in the unit, and was accepted on the basis of a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A60319-2004Sep3.html (612 words)

	t r u t h o u t - The Cost of War at Walter Reed
		But the flight-suit President dodged the Vietnam War, hiding in the Air National Guard's "Champagne Unit," strongly supporting the war from Texas.
		For these men and women there was no safe "Champagne Unit," no other options, no Ivy League hiding, no just talking while others did the fighting.
		In the large dining room, mothers prepare their son's food, applying ketchup to hamburgers, cutting pork chops, raising tables for their wheelchairs to clear.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/102205Z.shtml (2259 words)

	George Jr Sent Out of Texas by Father as a 'Drunken Liability'
		Motivated by pride in her husband and pique at the manner in which the Bush family discarded him once they believed he was no longer useful, the interview is the first she has ever given.
		On Sunday the former lieutenant governor of Texas Ben Barnes will admit on the CBS primetime news program 60 Minutes that he pulled strings to enroll Mr Bush in a unit of the Texas National Guard known as the Champagne Unit, because it had so many sons of prominent Texas politicians and businessmen.
		Mrs Allison said that in 1972 her husband received a call from Mr Bush's father asking whether he could find a place for his son on a Senate campaign he was managing in Alabama.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0903-03.htm (609 words)

	Chickenhawks and Veterans - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
		While George W. Bush surrounds himself with those who have raised Chickenhawkery to new levels, he has, by the Swiftboat controversy, proven himself an unsurpassed master at the craft of using military men and women to fight his battles while he hides behind the skirts of wealth, privilege, and power.
		Bush first learned how to be a Chickenhawk in Vietnam, when he rushed to the head of the line in the Champagne Unit of the National Guard, ensuring that others were sent in his place to a war he insists he supported (sort of).
		He honed his Chickenhawk skills in Iraq, when he rushed into war, sending American soldiers to fight in his name, without international support, without the proper armor, without a plan for peace or exit and -- it turns out -- without a firm and unchanging rationale for why they went in the first place.
	www.buzzflash.com /contributors/04/08/con04347.html (533 words)

	SurferMag Message Boards: Ben Barnes on 60 Minutes Tonight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bush was approved in September 1972 to train with the Alabama unit, more than four months after he left Texas.
		The only record tying Bush to that unit is a dental exam at the group's Montgomery base in January 1973.
		A May 1973 yearly evaluation from Bush's Texas unit gives the future president no ratings and stated Bush had not been seen at the Texas base since April 1972.
	forum.surfermag.com /forum/showflat.php?Number=554602 (3367 words)

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