Word: civilians
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...command over the armed forces has suffered from the sort of contempt rarely shown by the men and women in uniform toward a newly minted President. Believing that 12 years of Republican indulgence has habituated the military to calling its own shots, the President has dreamed of reaffirming civilian leadership over the Pentagon. But his hands have been tied both by his image as a draft dodger and by the popularity and political adroitness of General Colin Powell, the extraordinary Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who virtually dictated the Pentagon's opposition to admitting homosexuals to the armed...
...Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie's sister Carol, "Our Lady of the Bikini Wax"? Rosie, the last-to-know wife, vows to get the answers first. A woman whose last task as a civilian was to grade papers on "The Gamut of Love in Pride and Prejudice" becomes an adventurer...
Anger is focused squarely on the U.S. The helicopters and missiles responsible for the civilian casualties are almost entirely American. While the U.N. military forces are ostensibly led by Turkish General Cevik Bir, his staff is predominantly American and the real boss in Somalia is U.N. special representative Jonathan Howe, a retired U.S. Navy admiral. The determination to decapitate Aidid's faction is considered an American interpretation of the U.N. resolution calling for the capture of the Somalis responsible for the ambush of the Pakistanis. A total of 35 peacekeepers have died since May, none of them American...
...whose investigation began 18 months ago, planted an undercover agent inside the white-supremacist community; one of their civilian informants even posed as a minister of the Church of the Creator. The agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members...
...people took to the streets of Lagos, Nigeria's capital, to protest the despotism of General Ibrahim Babangida, who three weeks ago annulled last month's election while the votes were still being counted. The general has repeatedly backed away from earlier promises to return his country to civilian rule. He says he will step down at the end of August, but refuses to hand over the government to businessman Moshood Abiola, the clear but unofficial winner of the June election...