Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post-Tailhook Navy being overly sensitive to political correctness? Absolutely not, said Naval Operations Chief Jeremy Boorda, as he explained why the Navy had withdrawn its prime candidate for the Pacific command. Boorda argued that a lengthy (and possibly hostile) Senate confirmation hearing for Admiral Stanley Arthur, who has been criticized for his handling of a high- profile sexual-harassment case, would leave a dangerous command vacancy that must be filled as soon as possible...
...North Koreans asked for a suspension of talks, which the Americans understandingly gave. But what worried U.S. officials, including President Bill Clinton as he was awakened at 6:30 a.m. in Naples to hear the news, was who in North Korea or indeed on earth could be expected to command the authority that Kim had wielded in such matters...
...Sung got his chance to refashion himself when he fled Manchuria for the Soviet Union in 1939 or 1940, as the Japanese Imperial Army was trouncing the Chinese guerrillas. He was assigned to the Khabarovsk Infantry Officers School and given a captain's commission along with command of the Soviet-led ethnic Korean battalion. In Khabarovsk he married Kim Chong Suk, who had joined Kim Il Sung's guerrillas in 1935 and had followed him into exile. After the Soviets entered the war in 1945 and occupied Japan's northeast Asian territories, Kim and 66 fellow officers were sent...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin was scheduled to meet with the summiteers on Sunday, but the G-7 leaders do not yet want to convert the group into the G-8; Russia has a long way to go before it turns its former command economy into enough of a market economy to join the club. The seven would not put up any more of their own money for aid to Moscow, either. But they were amenable to an arrangement that would permit Russia to borrow some additional billions from the International Monetary Fund...
Such crimes have become depressingly familiar in Moscow. A day after the attempt on Berezovsky's life, an elderly man lost his leg to another car bomb. Two days after that, Alexei Yeliseyev, the second in command at Vnukovo Airlines, was beaten to death in front of his house. That same day two people were shot to death by gangsters during a car chase on the Rublev Highway. What surprised onlookers was not the sight of a high-speed gun battle along the heavily guarded road. It was the fact that a modest, Russian-made Zhiguli was able to overtake...