Word: commandant
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Evidence of Waldheim's wartime activities came to light in 1986, when he was running for the Austrian presidency. Newly discovered records showed that during World War II the former U.N. Secretary-General had served on the command staff of a German army group whose units murdered Yugoslav civilians and arranged the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps. Waldheim has admitted to his army service but denies that he knew about or participated in any war crimes. In February a commission of international historians, after studying the evidence, found no proof that Waldheim was guilty of war crimes...
...nine-member board made up of private citizens and representatives from law-enforcement agencies and gun-lobbying groups will prohibit weapons it deems illegitimate. Cheap guns will then command a high price: manufacturers and sellers of banned weapons will face fines up to $10,000 per pistol...
...Pentagon's community of Christian Fundamentalists complained that his group was not sufficiently "Christ centered." Winchester, a devout Roman Catholic, sat down with his adversaries. He convinced them that the group would bring people closer to God and agreed to remain under the chaplain's chain of command. Since then, he has begun offering monthly stress-reduction workshops and has conducted a special meditation program for employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency...
...chips achieve their performance breakthroughs? In a word: RISC, for reduced instruction set computer. RISC is not a new technology, but a fresh approach to computing that challenges 25 years of semiconductor design. It focuses on a computer's most basic commands: the instructions that are embedded, or hard-wired, into the silicon circuitry of the machine's central processing unit. The first computers made do with a handful of primitive commands, such as LOAD, ADD and STORE, which programmers combined to perform complex tasks. Lacking a command to multiply 6 times 5, for example, they had to instruct their...
...taking of Flight 422 raises tensions and tempers throughout the Middle East. -- Abu Jihad, Yasser Arafat' s second in command, is murdered in Tunis. -- An interview with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. -- Four nations sign an accord securing the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, but peace remains an elusive prospect...