Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace accord is signed, the U.S. will send 25,000 troops to Bosnia to help enforce it. No doubt that is a safer mission than covering a U.N. retreat. Still, at his office in Naples, U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, who is in charge of nato's Southern Command, has two documents, each of which is two inches thick and marked "nato Confidential." One outlines the American plans for the U.N. withdrawal; the other is the U.S. plan for enforcing the peace agreement. They are virtually the same...
...Arab Muslim Brotherhood, it is committed to a holy war to liberate not only the Gaza Strip and West Bank but also Israel from Jewish control. The group runs a large network of social institutions: mosques, clinics, schools and charities. In recent years, it had been estimated to command the loyalty of about 40% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but recent polls indicate that the number has dropped to approximately...
...frustrated young flyers. Things began to change when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee in 1941 and, against the advice of her staff, took a test flight with Anderson. It was a well-publicized vote of confidence in the program. Soon the 99th Fighter Squadron was formed under the command of Benjamin O. Davis, the first black graduate of West Point, and dispatched to North Africa...
...Dancers (Simon & Schuster; 235 pages; $22), a forcefully written novel of child abuse and parental desertion. The author's strength is her unfailing immediacy of language, which illuminated her fine previous novel Stones from the River. Her scenes, as character grates on troubled character, are real and vivid; they command attention. But the book's structure might have been designed by a committee to illustrate how bitter, unresolved childhood memories can be coped with. (Hegi's dedication is "For my women's group"; is there a clue here...
...virtually bare at war's end. While the Soviets were gearing up their first reactor, the U.S. was shutting its own reactors down. "Everyone dropped their tools and went home when the whistle blew," said a disgruntled General Curtis LeMay, who was soon to head the U.S. Strategic Air Command, the force responsible for delivering the nation's nuclear weapons...