Word: commander
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Women have excelled in a variety of posts, but the highest rungs of leadership have been difficult to reach. In all the services, the way to the top is through command: of an Army battalion, a ship, an air wing. Partly because of the exclusion from so many designated combat posts, women's military careers tend to top out at the middle ranks. Some 18% of female Army officers are second lieutenants, compared with 11% of male officers. But only 1% of female officers are colonels; 5% of male officers hold that rank. "They're not allowed in the jobs...
...what his psychiatrist colleagues would label a mid-life crisis: thunderstruck by the nubile daughter of old friends, he undertakes a frenzied search for signs of reciprocity. The result is either hysteria or someone's genuine plot to drive him crazy. Imago lacks the sociological acuity and command of character of McClure's best work, but it vividly portrays the emotional peaks and troughs of infatuation...
...prosecution of officers for human rights atrocities committed during the 1976-83 period of military rule. He had fled authorities two weeks ago while awaiting court- martial for his part in the earlier rebellion. Declared a jubilant Alfonsin, after receiving the support of the army's high command: "Democracy in this country has been consolidated." But discontent in the armed forces simmers...
...That's just a sexy handle," says Pantheon Senior Editor Tom Engelhardt. "You take a little from a TV mini-series, a little film noir and a little Burroughs and call it a graphic novel." Call it commercial too. In Europe graphic novels command 10% of the book market. At Waldenbooks, the nation's largest bookseller, they are being given prominent display. Says Margaret Ross, manager of Waldenbooks' magazine department: "We thought they could bring in people we wouldn't usually see -- from early 20s to early 30s, science-fiction and comic collectors, well educated." Writer Alan Moore, author...
...Richardson is accused of attempting to deliver information relating to national defense to a representative of the U.S.S.R.," spokesman William Carter said, reading from a statement issued by FBI Director William S. Sessions and Maj. Gen. Harry E. Soyster, commander of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, INSCOM...