Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early in the afternoon of Feb. 25, when allied troops were less than two days from liberating Kuwait City, three Iraqi officers led by Lieut. Colonel Mohammed Rida burst into the capital's Plaza Hotel. Confronting Khalid and Ali, the Palestinians who had kept the place running during the seven-month occupation, Rida calmly issued a terrifying order. "We will be back tomorrow," he said. "You will produce the women you have hidden. We will have a last party. if you do not provide, you will...
...black-and-white snapshot, its images shadowy and washed out, shows three men holding a cryptic, hand-lettered sign. Family members of three U.S. officers missing in action in the Vietnam War -- Colonel John Robertson, Major Albro Lundy Jr. and Lieut. Larry Stevens -- say they are "positive" those are the men in the photograph...
Until last week the Iran-contra scandal seemed ready to fade from the courts, the news and the mind. After costing more than four years and $25.5 million, the investigation headed by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was limping to a close. A federal appeals court had overturned Lieut. Colonel Oliver North's felony conviction, and a retrial seemed unlikely. The same outcome seemed possible for former National Security Adviser John Poindexter's conviction...
...constituents don't like to be told by critics that the money is not being well spent. On top of that, some Guard officers fear that a determined drive to raise attendance and training standards could lead to massive disgruntlement in the ranks and a wave of resignations. Says Colonel Patrick Garvey, commander of Camp Smith, a Guard facility in Peekskill, N.Y.: "In reality, it's an all-volunteer force based in the home community. If ((the troops)) are not happy, if they don't like the game, they'll go home...
While Yeltsin tries to look presidential, the verbal slanging has been left to his choice for vice president, Alexander Rutskoi, a gruff air force colonel who was captured during the war in Afghanistan and given his country's highest award for valor, Hero of the Soviet Union. A leader of the Communists for Democracy reform movement, Rutskoi told reporters last week that he simply could not understand "why Ryzhkov would even consider running for president after what he managed to do during five years as prime minister...