Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is over now. Flinn, 26, is applying for an honorable discharge to avoid facing a court-martial on charges including adultery and disobeying an order. Her decline began when she fell in love with Marc Zigo, a civilian who coached kids' soccer at the base. Believing he was separated, she started going out with him last summer. Soon he was telling her she was the love of his life, spoke of marriage and gave her an Irish promise ring...
Foolish, hurtful, deceitful behavior in matters romantic and sexual occurs every day in civilian life. It elicits responses ranging from sympathy to "Boy, are you stupid" to higher ratings for your talk show--a potential silver lining for Kathie Lee Gifford. Much of this happens at work because, to paraphrase Willie Sutton, that's where the opposite sex is. The question is, How much can--or should--an employer try to control it? There has to be a stricter standard in the life-and-death military, but something is out of kilter when two married executives at ABC have...
Last October Kagame staged a cross-border incursion, joining Zairean Tutsi rebels to rout murderous Hutu militias that had fled across the frontier with the civilian refugees. When Mobutu's army vanished in the face of this onslaught, a full-scale Zairean rebellion suddenly seemed possible. Museveni told his Rwandan friend to tap Laurent Kabila as the leader of a broader movement, and today Kabila, with key help from Kagame, is ready to take Zaire...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Justice Department is investigating charges that $1 billion in McDonnell Douglas civilian airliner equipment, approved by the Clinton Administration for sale to China, was diverted by a Chinese company to build missiles and fighter planes. If true, the news could be especially embarrassing to the Administration, which approved the deal in 1994 over Pentagon objections. The Pentagon argued that the heavy machine equipment, used to shape and bend large aircraft parts, could also be used to boost Chinese arms capability. Apparently, they were right: Recently released satellite photos show that even while the sale was being negotiated...
When the moment is right, say leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (N.C.R.), the rebels' civilian arm, the N.L.A. will roll across the border in support of a general uprising against the fundamentalist Iranian government. "We intend to combine the army with the rising of social unrest to sweep away the mullahs," N.C.R. president Maryam Rajavi told Time. "The mullahs are a regime that doesn't understand any language other than force and power." N.C.R. leaders believe, perhaps too optimistically, that burgeoning discontent with Iran's faltering economy, which has led to open protests and riots...