Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring will be 14 years for a station intended to last only five," says Kluger. "Most of those years were smooth and uneventful." Now Mir's current crew will be its last. The three cosmonauts will abandon ship in August after installing a new computer allowing ground controllers to command the station remotely. From that point Mir's orbit, currently about 240 miles above Earth, will begin to tighten. When it reaches 125 miles, the Russians will pick an ocean -- unlike Skylab, which NASA dangerously allowed to deorbit itself -- and send the 120-ton station its final command. And then...
During his long reign, Suharto led an outwardly modest life. Behind the facade, however, he showed an appetite for making money. In the 1950s, he was allegedly involved in sugar smuggling that may have cost him command of an army division during a 1959 anticorruption drive. Suharto asserts that he bartered sugar for rice to ease a local food shortage and did not benefit personally, but he was transferred to a less influential position at the army staff college...
...Suharto's children and friends. Suharto, as chairman, had had to sign any check over $50,000. Soedjono submitted a preliminary report on his findings to President Habibie last June and was fired five hours later. (Habibie says Soedjono was dismissed because he stepped outside the line of command on another matter...
Moscow is promoting a plan under which NATO troops enter Kosovo as part of a peacekeeping force under neutral command while the Serbs retain some forces in the province. But Russia is threatening to quit as peace-broker if NATO bombing doesn't end soon. And there was no sign of that Friday as the alliance completed its heaviest 24-hour bombing of the entire campaign. One key indicator to watch for signs of a diplomatic breakthrough is Ahtisaari's itinerary, since he has said he won't meet with Milosevic until NATO and Russia agree to a workable peace...
...package of potential targets next headed down the Potomac from the CIA to the Pentagon basement, home to the Joint Staff's directorate for targets and from there to the U.S. European Command in Germany and to NATO. All were charged with making sure that any bombs that went astray would do scant harm. No one raised an alarm...