Word: commander
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When he's not getting rich, he's becoming ever more famous. There's Gingrich the Small-Screen Star, who appeared regularly on National Empowerment Television; and Gingrich the after-dinner toastmaster, who can command $50,000 a plate at a fund raiser; as well as Gingrich the erstwhile college professor. If he doesn't get a grip, we may soon have Newt the Fragrance as well as coverage of Congress on a pay-per-view basis...
DIED. ROGER ZELAZNY, 58, author; of lung cancer; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Armed with pyrotechnic prose and a stylish command of mythic themes, Zelazny broke new ground in science fiction as part of the 1960s "New Wave," which presented socially and psychologically complex views of the future, at sharp odds with the genre's traditionally upbeat portrayals of tomorrow. The winner of every major award in the field, Zelazny saw his grim vision of a postapocalyptic America, Damnation Alley, made into an uncompelling 1977 Jan-Michael Vincent film...
...French soldiers were a symbolic down payment on the 10,000 troops who will form a rapid-reaction force to back up the 22,500 U.N. peacekeepers already in the country. The landing on Mount Igman also seemed to lend support to the Bosnia U.N. military command's tentative plan to open a supply route from besieged Sarajevo to the sea at Split...
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali then sent a letter to the Security Council. The letter reports that the new quick-reaction brigades will become an integral part of the existing peacekeeping force and will function under the existing U.N. command structure and the mandate of neutrality that has governed ground troops and the use of air strikes. A resolution to that effect could come up in the Council as early as this week. It will mean simply that UNPROFOR will be bigger, not different...
...carry out their mandate. The Secretary-General says if that is their intention, fine, but it is not consistent with a U.N. peacekeeping mission. He recommends that this sort of force -- now in the making -- be reshaped not as a U.N. operation but as a multinational intervention force under command of the countries contributing troops, as was the case initially in Somalia and Haiti. "He's saying," explains a U.N. official, " 'If you want to do more, do it yourselves, because you haven't given me the resources to do it.' " Even more than that, Boutros-Ghali wants...