Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Government puts a young man into a situation where he might die, it is obliged to protect him with all the resources at its command. This was not done in Lebanon...
...P.L.O.'s military forces in Syria and Lebanon, including the Palestine Liberation Army, will come even more under the control of Syria. Three of the eight separate organizations that form the commando groups of the P.L.O., including Saiqa and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, are already loyal to Syria. If Rebel Leader Abu Mousa is able to defeat Arafat with Syrian backing, he will make a bid for control of Al Fatah, the Arafat-founded group that accounts for some 80% of the P.L.O.'s strength...
Moscow's muddled handling of the event illustrated the lack of sharp command at the top. Andropov was said to be on vacation at the time. But as the Soviet military covered its blunder by charging that the U.S. had attempted aerial espionage, the Kremlin suffered heavy damage to its international standing...
Both exhibit an artful command of the blues in their work, but Artist Marc Chagall, 96, and Rolling Stones Bassist Bill Wyman, 47, seem an unlikely collaborative pair. Wyman, a resident of Vence in southern France, was first introduced to Neighbor Chagall and his wife Valentine three years ago by Andre Verdet, 72, a painter, art critic and friend who was writing a book about the Russian-born impressionist. Being an amateur shutterbug, Wyman expressed an interest in taking the photographs for Verdet's volume, which will be published in France next month. The writer arranged a meeting...
Grenadian reality is far less exotic. It takes a citizen of the Caribbean, more in control of his historical imagination and more in command of the facts on the ground, to see Grenada for what it is. Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga, no Teddy Roosevelt he, contributed troops to the Grenadian invasion force. His concern was not that Grenada was recapitulating any past disaster; on the contrary, it was creating for the islands of the English-speaking Caribbean a wholly new one. Military juntas and large armies are alien to the region, he explained. The largest army in the Organization...