Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press for quick action to create a tribunal. That is true even though Washington is sitting on intelligence estimates that indicate 70,000 people -- five times the number mentioned in public -- are being held under intolerable conditions in concentration camps in Bosnia and Serbia. Those camps' lines of command, according to intelligence reports, lead straight to Belgrade, the Serbian capital. But the West seems so embarrassed at what it has recently discovered in the former Yugoslavia that it does nothing about...
...quality of redwoods -- lofty, solid monuments invested with an almost classical presence. They can also seem unbendingly solemn. "I like to think I have a merry side," he says, almost wistfully, and in conversation he certainly talks often of "fun," his sonorous voice rolling up and down with command and theatricality, now mimicking a genteel old lady, now a Taoist sage. "I've never in my life -- or hardly ever -- laughed so loud as during the creation of my fiction," he says, while acknowledging that his humor may be too laconic for some tastes. At the same time, he remains...
Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia. Eagleburger indicated that the last three could be held responsible for atrocities committed by forces under their command that they did nothing to stop...
When he takes command, Clinton has indicated, he will not shrink from using American power and influence abroad. It may well be that although the outgoing Administration has saddled him with foreign ventures he might prefer not to have just now, he does not disapprove of any of the steps Bush either has taken in Somalia or seems about to take in Bosnia. If the President-elect objected seriously to them, he could say so -- and possibly force Bush to draw back. But whether Clinton does so or not, he no longer suggests that domestic and economic affairs will...
...upset would liberals be over Bentsen's probusiness record, his ill-fated $10,000 breakfast club for favored campaign contributors and his off-again, on-again memberships in segregated clubs? The answer: not very. But before Bentsen -- the ultimate old-politics nominee -- was formally unveiled, the Clinton high command seemed to be hedging its bets by underlining its belief in affirmative action with this leaked story in the New York Times: CLINTON EXPECTED TO NAME WOMAN ATTORNEY GENERAL...