Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inevitable that the 20,000 U.S. troops in Haiti would have to assume command. Now they are engaged in keeping the urban peace, closing down the offices of plainclothes militias, interning members of Cedras' security guard, searching for arms caches and running a wholesale disarmament effort...
...hopes that tough talk and troop deployment will be enough. "Saddam needs to know he's going to get himself bloodied if he does something stupid," a top Central Command officer said. "And what he's doing now is looking increasingly stupid." But the man's stubbornness has been underestimated before. During the Gulf War, Colin Powell said of the Iraqi army: "First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it." But like the Black Knight, Saddam keeps on fighting. You can cut him up but you can't shut...
...forces. This morning, Saudi Arabia and five smaller oil nations -- Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait itself -- began deploying much of their 19,000-man "Peninsula Shield" in Kuwait, enough to match the number of U.S. forces now on Kuwaiti soil. Meanwhile, the U.S. operation's Central Command tells TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson that Iraq's forces are in close to full flight back north -- including what is believed to be the best of Saddam's once feared Republican Guard, the Hammurabi Division. The other Guard unit, he says, was sitting around, waiting...
...even faster way to get to SOLID is to launch the "ph" from any application from your network-connected personal computer or type "ph" from any terminal at the "fas%" prompt. The "ph" programs presents a stark-looking command line. If you're using "ph" from a personal computer, simply type a person's first and/or last name and hit to get their contact information. If you're using "ph" from the "fas%" prompt, the person's name must be prefaced by the word "query" followed by a space...
...White House usually loses about 12 House seats in its first midterm election. But something quite different is happening this year. Republicans, who only weeks ago would have been pleased to add three seats to the 44 they hold in the Senate and 20 to the 178 they command in the House, now relish the prospect that they might win effective control -- and perhaps an outright majority -- in one or both chambers...