Word: commandeer
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Bill Clinton put out the order Tuesday night: nobody in his Administration should criticize Jimmy Carter. The command caused some gritting of teeth. In interviews and speeches the former President had not concealed his low opinion of the State Department, and he was even quoted as saying he was "ashamed" of U.S. policy toward Haiti. But Clinton was grateful for Carter's help in ! wiggling out of a tight spot. So dutiful Secretary of State Warren Christopher hopped a plane to the former President's home in Georgia to smooth things over...
...they tip the electoral scales in six weeks. Among the pledges, courtesy of ringleader and House minority whip Newt Gingrich: a balanced-budget amendment, presidential line-item veto, making the death penalty a more common part of American life, term limits and keeping U.S. troops away from U.N. command abroad. BUT CHANGE WON'T COME CHEAP: This evening, the celebrants tripped off to the traditional pre-campaign feed -- a $5,000-a-table dinner to raise half a million dollars from Washington's elite...
...might relieve the immediate crisis but raise the ante for the U.S. to help foster enough of a stable democracy in the unhappy island nation to prove it was not all in vain. "Haiti is not a one-day problem," acknowledges Admiral Paul Miller, head of the U.S. Atlantic Command, who will have overall charge of the U.S. forces taking over Haiti. "You have to factor the political, the military, the economic and the cultural into your planning and execution, and then figure out what is done the day after ((invasion)), the week after, the month after, the year after...
...study them agree that the pressure on police officers actually comes from some surprising sources. The most crushing battles, they argue, often occur not on the streets but in the rundown precinct houses, and the courtrooms, and the $ privacy of their own homes. Too often, police complain, the commanders and commissioners who cops imagined would guide and protect them seem to ignore or betray them instead. "Frequently, officers feel that somewhere on the line between lieutenant and captain, these people change," says Scott Allen, clinical psychologist for the 3,200-member Metro-Dade police department in Florida. "The command loses...
JOHNSON: "I and all the officials of the American government worked with every weapon at our command to ((restore peace...