Word: commander
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...Kennedy] was in command," Kennedy's campaign manager and nephew Michael L. Kennedy '80 said. "He was focused on the real issues...
Fortunately, he will get some economic help. The international trade embargo, enforced in June 1993, officially ended on Sunday. Even before the President took command, shipments of oil and gas were on their way to Haiti. Relief is also trickling back in, the beginning of what will eventually become a deluge of assistance. In the next 12 to 15 months, the United Nations plans to give $555 million. The U.S. is setting up a jobs program that in theory will put 50,000 Haitians to work by 1995. And the U.S. AID has set aside $140 million for jobs...
Still, one of the 15 Cantabridgians who attended the meeting, Vincent L. Dixon '74, said Healy had served too long. "It is in everybody's interest that we have a change in command," he said...
Former B.C.C.I. second-in-command Swaleh Naqvi was sentenced to eight years in the slammer and ordered to pay $255 million in restitution in connection with federal charges stemming from the biggest bank fraud ever. Naqvi now faces trial in New York Friday on state charges. But Naqvi's boss, B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, is currently in Pakistan and unlikely to be brought to justice, says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who covered the scandal. Naqvi has pleaded indigence and probably won't pay the fines levied against him. Still, today's development is a significant victory for the feds...
...January 1981, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the super-secret Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees counterterrorist units like the Delta Force, to devise a rescue operation. Tuttle says the DIA built a tabletop-size model of the Laotian camp based on satellite photos and took it to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to help the JSOC with its planning. Members of the Delta Force say the commandos then planned to construct a full-scale mock- up in the Philippines to practice its raid; as cover, it would pretend to be a Hollywood company shooting a commando movie...