Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amid the barrage of domestic and international criticism, Tung was condemned as a puppet--or else as a high-handed authoritarian--ready to roll back democratic reforms at Beijing's command. "This is the first real test of what the 'one country, two systems' slogan means," says Michael DeGolyer, chairman of the poll-taking Hong Kong Transition Project. "People want to know whether Tung is Beijing's representative in Hong Kong or Hong Kong's representative in Beijing...
Flinn had learned to be a good pilot and a good fighter, and once she came under fire from her chain of command, she wasn't about to crash. That Wednesday, her mother Mary and brother Don had done the Today show, and her Uncle John had gone on Good Morning America "to convey our story." The family had built a Website to solicit contributions for her legal-defense fund and invite readers to E-mail Congress or Kelly with their support. The letters, phone calls and editorials were running heavily in her favor; politicians from both sides...
...Monday, Flinn and her lawyers submitted a request to resign in lieu of a court-martial on the condition that it be an honorable discharge. The petition was rushed up the Air Force chain of command in three days, lightning speed in the military bureaucracy for such a request. On Tuesday, Widnall put the Flinn court-martial on hold while she considered the request. An honorable discharge was out of the question; there would be practically a mutiny in the senior officer corps if she allowed such blatant favoritism for an officer charged with these offenses. In private with Widnall...
...Roper respondents said it had little or no effect on readiness for battle. Yet the brass has been unconvinced, especially when fraternization--the extracurricular association of officers with enlisted personnel--was involved. Fraternization was outlawed even when it referred primarily to poker games between lieutenants and grunts. Today commanders face nightmare scenarios of officers using rank to extort sex, of favoritism and jealousy eating away at the chain of command and hard-won troop morale, of subordinates wondering if their officer sent them on a particularly dangerous mission to avoid assigning it to a lover. Very few courts-martial involve...
...sponsoring a bill banning mixed-sex basic training. In the end, it may be best to let the generals and admirals, exploring unknown territory, figure it out for themselves. Speaking in her personal capacity, Captain Rosemary Mariner, the Navy's first woman tactical-jet pilot and the first female commander of an aviation squadron, suggests that the approach seems to have worked so far in her branch of the service. "When I came in 24 years ago, there was rampant sexual misconduct," she recalls. "Prosecutions were inconsistent and differed from command to command. But now the commanders are beginning...