Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading the Crimson offense was the Firing Line of MacDonald, Smith and Captain Scott Fusco, who took command, scoring goals and dominating play...
...campaign. He helped found the Tercerista faction, or Third Party, within the divided Sandinista movement, which forged an alliance with the widespread middle-class opposition to Somoza. Mainly on the strength of that bond, the Sandinistas came to power. After serving as the first among equals in the party command and in the nine-man National Directorate, he won the presidency in a 1984 election that was boycotted by most of the moderate opposition parties. His brother Humberto became Defense Minister...
...Jovito Salonga, head of the official Philippine commission charged with recouping the scattered wealth of deposed President Ferdinand Marcos and his free-spending wife Imelda. In all, the 2,300 pages formed an intriguing if incomplete treasure map of the vast fortune that Marcos, his family and cronies command. The cache only confirmed much of what Salonga had already unearthed among the personal effects the Marcoses abandoned in Manila more than a month ago. But he was outraged nonetheless. "I am shocked," he said. "I cannot imagine this kind of greed...
...remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been forced by a vigorous Sandinista counteroffensive to retreat across the border. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra has said that the contras have "totally lost the initiative." For once, the American military seems to agree with the Sandinistas. Admits General John Galvin, commander of the U.S. Southern Command: "They need training, they need advice in terms of strategy, tactics and senior leadership. Their basic military techniques are rather poor." Even a specially commissioned Administration report concludes that the contras are so weak and divided, so poorly trained and led, that money alone...
Aquino's strategy in dealing with the Communists is to court the 16,000 to 20,000 rebels with offers of a six-month cease-fire and amnesty if they disarm. At least one regional N.P.A. command scoffed at that, demanding the ouster of Ramos and Enrile before talk of a cease-fire could begin. But the government is apparently considering at least one intriguing sweetener: paying the rebels above-market prices for turning in their guns. Under the plan, a guerrilla might receive, say, $1,750 for an automatic rifle worth $1,500 on the open market. He would...