Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraqi dictator in 1991, when U.S. troops were in his neighborhood. But it's not a serious topic in the Pentagon tank, the top-secret meeting room in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff plot strategy. In fact, Marine General Anthony Zinni, who as chief of the U.S. Central Command would oversee any U.S.-led attack on Iraq, thinks it's a dubious scheme. "Saddam contained," he says, "is far better than an Iraq that implodes or explodes and ends up like an Afghanistan or a Somalia...
...voice network has an important job, the General Accounting Office pointed out in a report released last week. It's designed "to enable commanders to discuss whether a ballistic-missile launch threatens North America and, if so, to determine the appropriate retaliatory response." But, like your first cell phone, the system is a bit clunky. The GAO says recent tests show that "the National Command Authorities and the chief military commanders would be unable to communicate by voice in a timely and intelligible manner...
...college students, the privilege and power we all command is immense. We have the duty to help others because we have the ability. John F. Kennedy '40 said that "to whom much is given, much is expected" and we have been given...
...incoming Speaker Livingston makes his intentions clear. Livingston has been offering lip service both to those who would end it and those who believe the President's behavior is too serious to ignore. But friends are sure he's eager to get the thing wrapped up before he takes command of the next Congress in January. Representative Billy Tauzin, one of Livingston's fellow Louisiana Republicans, says, "He'd like to see the preoccupation with scandal end." Who wouldn't? But not everyone in Washington is ready yet to call it quits...
...socially, women are still objects that do not command the same respect as men. And as long as images of women as sex symbols continue to feature prominently on billboards, in magazines, on television and maybe even in men's minds, females will remain objects. Our society--politically correct and liberal as it claims to be--shows little inclination to mend its ways...