Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When young Davidians strayed from his commands, their punishment was severe (though one survivor insisted such redress was basic "Christian discipline"). Disobedience frequently brought out the "helper," a paddle often wielded by Koresh's "mighty men" in the "whipping room" just off the first floor. The instrument left circle-shaped lesions, an inch across, on the children's buttocks. Koresh's son Cyrus, when he was three years old, once refused a command and, according to a former cult member, was starved for two days and forced to sleep on a garage floor where Koresh told him large rats prowled...
...made counterartillery radar, which Washington would have to ( supply directly or through allies. The Pentagon would want to ship TOW antitank weapons and light armored vehicles -- fast, mobile carriers useful for keeping forces together -- as well. One nonlethal item of great utility would be tactical radios to improve Muslim command and communications. Since the U.S. is reluctant to get involved on the ground, it might turn to Turkey, which already smuggles weapons to the Muslims, to provide the necessary training advisers...
...managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something as precious as her identity. At 63, Lincoln is in full command of both her life...
...military, the job is finished. The hand-off to the U.N. officially began on May 1 when Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali started paying the bills. Last week Turkish General Cevik Bir took command of the 30- nation contingent that will eventually number 28,000. U.S. troops are streaming home. By June 1 only 4,000 will remain -- 1,300 as a rapid- deployment unit, plus 2,700 others left in charge of logistics...
Critics charge that the U.S. command did everything it could to protect American soldiers at the expense of an effective peacemaking mission. The Marines refused to take on the task of forcible disarmament on any large scale, even with their superior firepower. U.S. soldiers did not intervene in the worst fighting in the port city of Kismayu in February, opting instead for a "show of force" that accomplished nothing. Marines avoided forays beyond the town of Bardera because it would have placed them at risk from land mines and marauding gunmen...