Word: creep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week: "Mission-creep" vs. "Gridlock...
Since troops are policing the streets as they had vowed not to do, some Pentagon officials concede privately that "mission creep" -- a term of deep opprobrium since Somalia -- has occurred. But General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, does not think so. "Our mission has not changed from the beginning," he insists. "We have just changed our capabilities and adjusted our procedures slightly, consistent with the changed circumstances on the ground." Retorts Senate Republican leader Bob Dole: "This is not just mission creep; it's mission leap...
...Political and military goals never meshed. Initially presented as a purely humanitarian mission, Operation Restore Hope gradually shifted from feeding Somalis to fighting them. Unaware of the "mission creep," the public was outraged when 18 U.S. soldiers died in an October 1993 fire fight...
...lead a military mission. "The U.S. has to lead like we did before the Gulf War and let everybody else follow," says an Army officer. Flournoy agrees, adding that U.S. allies in Somalia often declined to conduct even routine operations. That forced "the U.S. to choose between U.S. mission creep and U.N. mission failure." In Haiti the U.S. military will be watching President Clinton's every move and hoping he -- and the nation's troops -- doesn't end up with such a bleak choice...
Lloyd leaves the troupe to return to New York, and the second act turns the set around to follow the show from backstage as the nowdirectionless tour drags on. Lovers' quarrels storm, the casts' peculiarities begin to wreck havoc and the troupe's tensions creep on stage. The final act returns to the front of the house to survey the results of three months on the road from the point of view of "Nothing On's" unwitting audience: a madhouse held together by the eternal delusion that the show must...