Word: commander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...windshield and back window were shot out, the witnesses said. Police are searching for a gray Peugeot 505 that fled the scene, the Lagos state police command said...
...last week he decreed that only volunteers will be sent to Chechnya, but now he is contemplating another radical move: firing Pavel Grachev, the Minister of Defense who has stood by Yeltsin since the coup in 1991. Fragmented as it is, the military still respects the chain of command, so Yeltsin needs a popular and loyal Defense Minister to keep the top officers in line. Grachev, one of the main culprits of the Chechen misadventure, is highly unpopular, and now his loyalty is in doubt as well...
...fact, Vinik had become a lightning rod for the public's perception of problems at Fidelity, a $442 billion cash machine based in Boston, whose 238 mutual funds command a leading 13% share of the U.S. fund industry. Late last year Vinik drew the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission for publicly touting computer maker Micron Technology while Magellan quietly unloaded its Micron shares. This year Fidelity shuffled no fewer than 26 fund managers in March to perk up the funds' performance...
...computer file accountability, institute rigorous training in computer security and develop better capability for reacting to computer break-ins. GAO information management chief Jack Brock told a Senate subcomitte hearing of an infamous 1994 case where a16 year old British teenager broke into the computer of the Air Force command and control research facility in Rome, New York. He gained access to the system more than 150 times, hiding his trail through international phone systems in South America, Seattle and New York. The boy used his access to reach systems at NASA's space flight center, defense contractors around...
...Russian electronic-warfare experts reportedly zeroed in on Dudayev's satellite phone and called in air strikes. Satarov won't directly confirm that the killing was timed to aid Yeltsin's campaign, but he gleefully acknowledges that "it wins votes for us." He also admits the Yeltsin campaign high command "discussed all this in advance" and knew when the killing would be attempted. He does, however, lament that "we haven't turned Dudayev's death to our complete advantage yet." That is why Yeltsin is planning to visit Chechnya soon, perhaps as early as this week; he wants to emphasize...