Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most students" at the conference have spent months diligently preparing for the conference. "Most students" attend and participate in their committees. "Most students" will leave the HMUN with a better understanding of the complex world we live in. It is these students who we would like to command and thank properly for making HMUN '82 a success. Paul Michalski HMUN Public Relations Director Don Hernandez Secretary-General
...years following Somoza's downfall, small bands of former National Guardsmen operated along the Honduran border, making hit-and-run attacks inside Nicaragua. The Somocistas, as they were known, were demoralized and poorly organized. The U.S. set about forcing the various factions to unite under a central command, while the CIA began recruiting students, farmers and other civilians to beef up the force. Then, early this year, the Fuerza Democratica Nicaragiiense (F.D.N.) was established to serve as a respectable political front group for the contras. Though the Guardsmen supposedly do not hold leadership positions in the F.D.N., they...
...also sent 200 military advisers to Honduras, but it reduced its contingent to a skeleton crew during the Falklands war last spring. Meanwhile, Washington established its own links with the Honduran military. Honduran soldiers were sent to training camps in Panama run by the U.S. Army's Southern Command Group (SOUTHCOM) and standard field equipment was provided...
...Professor Lichty puts it, "The widely accepted notion that Mr. Rather and his rivals each command a vast, devoted nightly following seems farfetched." Together the nightly newscasts on the three networks gather an audience of 50 million. It is a sizable number, even when split three ways, but does not add up to "most Americans." Besides, Lichty says, it is a fickle and fluctuating audience: "Only 1% of all 78.3 million American television households watch Rather as often as four or five nights a week." The Television Information Office disputes these figures, and counters with a Nielsen report that...
Interviewer: Scotto's certainly is all of that, but in her big sleepwalking scene, she sings with a touching mixture of fury, pathos and resignation. And few divas can command a stage as floridly as Scotto still can. But one controversial production touch is having the dancer who mimes Hecate appear nearly nude during the phantasmagorical ballet...