Word: commandant
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...mortality two weeks ago, when he was rushed to surgery after a weekend with other media moguls in Idaho's Sun Valley. The unexpected illness of Disney's chairman unleashed a flood of speculation about the future of a company that only four months ago lost its second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member said it was "under active consideration," and according to one source, the company may solicit a list of outside...
...described what sounded like invasion-rehearsal exercises by Marines on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas 200 miles north of Port-au-Prince and by soldiers of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Pentagon also announced the arrival on station of a new command ship for the 14-vessel flotilla standing ready near Haiti: the U.S.S. Mount Whitney. Crammed with communications gear and sprouting a forest of antennae, it is one of two U.S. ships designed specifically to serve as a floating headquarters for an amphibious invasion...
Another hint: a White House official says the Administration hopes to have human monitors stationed on the border "within a few weeks" -- which does not sound as though he expects the country to be under U.S. military occupation quickly. An Army officer at the U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk, Virginia, who has read the cable traffic on Haiti guesses that if an invasion is ordered -- and it has not been yet -- it will occur during the first two weeks in August. Vague hints about the end of July had been dropped by some Administration officials, but they were based partly...
Even a slight easing of the refugee pressure has given Clinton some breathing space he sorely needs: there is a great deal more the Administration would have to do before it ordered an invasion. Says Admiral Paul Miller, who is in charge of the Atlantic Command and would supervise any invasion: "Haiti is not a one-day problem. You have to factor in the political, the military, the economic and the cultural ((problems)) -- and what's done the day after ((an invasion)), the week after, the month after, the year after." Lining up international support is crucial, since...
...U.S.S. Harlan County, trying to land with a U.N.-sponsored team of military and police advisers, turned back after anti-U.S. mobs demonstrated at the port. This time Barnes, betting things will be different, has rented a room in a "strategically located" brothel with a roof that should command a good view of the first attack. Miami bureau chief Booth spent several days % last week at the army's decrepit general quarters, trying to glean what plans the country's military rulers might be making -- either to avoid an invasion by finally stepping down or to organize their troops...