Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bluntly told by William Weld, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, that he might be subject to indictment for his dealings with E. Robert Wallach, a central figure in both the Wedtech and Iraqi pipeline affairs. Weld and Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns, the second in command, warned Meese that his behavior was "poisoning the department." Then the two officials, handpicked by Meese for their senior posts, publicly announced their resignations and those of four of their closest advisers...
...that the U.S. was reviewing its military options to oust Noriega. Washington announced it would dispatch 1,300 additional troops to Panama this week to bolster security for American facilities and citizens along the Panama Canal. The force will complement a 10,000-troop garrison stationed at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Panama. But Wayne Smith, a U.S. diplomat in Latin America from 1979 to 1982 and now a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, warned against using U.S. force to topple the general. Said he: "I can't think of anything more counterproductive...
...Southern Command, with its headquarters near Panama City, had about 600 security people among its 10,000 personnel before the Reagan Administration stepped up its campaign to oust Noriega early last month...
...were difficult for blacks," he says with no apparent bitterness. In 1962 he was ordained in the Josephite order of priests, which was founded in the 19th century to serve blacks. Its leadership had always been white, but nine years later he became their vicar-general, or second-in-command, the first black to hold such an office in any religious order. Rome was noticing him. Marino was consecrated as a bishop in 1974 and assigned as an auxiliary in Washington. In 1985 he was elected secretary of the American bishops' national conference, a mark of considerable esteem from...
More ambitious is ALBM (AirLand Battle Management), a system designed to address every aspect of planning and fighting an air and land battle. ALBM is intended to supply computerized intelligence to the "electronic battlefield" that the military has been developing as part of its evolving command-and- control strategy. When completed, this system will enable commanders to explore war games and battle scenarios, test tactical hypotheses and plan weapons and troop deployment. But the information-processing requirements of a major-theater war would be enormous. Managing a battle is not a case of dealing with one source of data rapidly...