Word: commandeer
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Meeting at a joint Israeli-p.l.o. command post inside the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and p.l.o. leader Yasser Arafat failed to reach agreement on how to begin expanding Palestinian authority without compromising Israeli security. Rabin continued to insist that Islamic extremists must be controlled before there is any more discussion of Palestinian self-rule. And he refused to lift the three-week closure of the occupied territories that keeps tens of thousands of Palestinians from their jobs in Israel...
...Wars"-style missile defense system. But GOP House members stuck together today on the far more significant issue of congressional authority over American foreign policy. By a vote of 241-181, the House passed a measure that would restrict the president''s authority to place U.S. troops under foreign command, would cut United Nations funding and would speed expansion of NATO membership to include Eastern European countries. Clinton is expected to veto that measure. He has maintained that it would erode the president''s authority as commander in chief. TIME White House correspondent James Carney says some Republicans may cross...
...said he supports it. In the Senate, positions hardened over a balanced-budget amendment, as key Democrats sought to protect Social Security from future cuts and pin down Republicans on precisely how they would erase the deficit. Senate majority leader Bob Dole admitted he did not yet command the two-thirds vote needed for passage...
...space shuttle Discovery and its crew of six climbed into orbit, the dreams and aspirations of women also soared, in the person of Lieut. Colonel EILEEN COLLINS, 38. Collins is second in command and the first female to take over the controls of a NASA spaceship. She is carrying mementos of women aviators of the past, including a scarf that belonged to Amelia Earhart. Collins started taking flying lessons when she was 19 and in 1990 became the U.S. Air Force's second woman test pilot. She is not dwelling on the historic aspect of this flight: ``Maybe someday when...
From there, however, Columbia took command by winning the final four bouts--including two by pin at 177 pounds and 190 pounds...