Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most intriguing exhibits were blurry "low light" television footage taken from U.S. AC-130 reconnaissance aircraft off the Salvadoran coast. According to General Paul Gorman, head of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, one series of images showed a Nicaraguan "mother ship" unloading crates into small seagoing canoes. The canoes then speed toward shore near El Salvador's Lempa River, where the cargo was packed onto mules and taken inland. To novice viewers, the film sequence resembled nothing more than a series of large and small white blobs. Gorman insisted, however, that the film showed only about...
...political rival, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres. The two men smiled, shook hands and joked with each other. But the outward congeniality belied the serious political deadlock that had brought them together. Nine days before, they had battled to a virtual draw in parliamentary elections. With neither party in command of enough seats to form a majority in the Knesset, the two leaders were exploring the possibility of joining in a government of national unity...
Despite some improvement, the overall performance of El Salvador's army remains "checkered." So testified General Paul Gorman, head of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, in an appearance last week before a House subcommittee. Indeed, two days earlier, a dawn guerrilla raid on three villages west of San Salvador left 63 civil-defense guards and three civilians dead. Army reinforcements did not arrive until the afternoon, after the fighting had ended...
...magazine, a glossy monthly with 77,000 well-heeled subscribers (average household income: $147,000). It has an avid following on Wall Street for its irreverent reporting and its annual ratings of securities analysts. Kaplan will stay on as editor in chief of the magazine, but music will also command his attention. He plans to conduct the Mahler work again, with the London Symphony Orchestra...
...million, 60,000-sq.-ft. command center, which was built in California and shipped to Sarajevo for the Winter Olympics, has been brought back home and upgraded. Now even Kublai Khan, or George Lucas, would be overwhelmed by this pleasure dome of electronic wizardry: twelve editing rooms rather than the seven used in Sarajevo, 96 videotape recorders rather than 36, and a wall of 97 TV monitors that will carry simultaneous pictures from nearly every stadium, arena, swimming pool and open field in the area...