Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brushing aside still more White House warnings, House Republicans also passed a defense and foreign policy bill that would cut back U.S. financing of U.N. peacekeeping operations, restrict American troops from serving under U.N. command, and create a $1.5 million bipartisan commission to study national-security strategy. The usually solid Republican majority cracked, however, when two dozen party members helped defeat a provision that would have required prompt deployment of a national missile-defense system...
...fact, Q and his Los Angeles-headquarters second-in-command, Donald (``Doc'') Dennis, a suspected East Coast Crip, often displayed considerable long-distance ``savviness,'' according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Johnson. ``They called to question the amount of receipts coming in. They discussed how much crack was in the city. They discussed cooking agents. And they didn't keep books...
Birmingham's Renee Stephens remains at large. But Dink Slaughter and Drak Neal were followed home and arrested in Los Angeles. The Seattle team was jailed. Second-in-command Doc Dennis surrendered to a swat team in Burbank, California, without incident. And when Q himself was summoned to visit his parole officer--he once served time on a previous drug offense--he found FBI agents waiting for him. Finally, after 15 months on the run, Cleveland's M.J. Lee was also captured early this month in Chino Hills, California...
...that is all the two campaigns have in common. In Afghanistan a small group of special forces from the kgb and the gru, the military intelligence service, assisted by several paratroop battalions, managed to take Kabul, the capital, in one day with minimal losses. In the Chechnya war, our commanders seemed to be totally oblivious of this lesson when they went after Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev. They should have used elite troops; instead, they went in with raw recruits. In Afghanistan conscripts were never sent directly to the front: they had to undergo two months of preparation at special training...
...major event in Afghanistan when a soldier was taken prisoner. kgb and gru agents tried to locate pows; then field commanders began negotiations to free them. At first they tried to deal from strength, bombing and firing missiles at villages. If the mujahedin still refused to turn over prisoners, efforts were made to buy our people back. They were ransomed with flour, kerosene, uniforms, sometimes money, even, though rarely, with weapons. In the Chechen war, the military command will not even talk about the fate of captured officers and soldiers. Distraught mothers have had to go to Chechnya to free...