Word: debriefed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decisive move by Enrile and Ramos seemed to encourage the Administration to adopt a sterner posture toward Marcos. Even before U.S. officials had a chance to debrief Presidential Envoy Philip Habib, who was flying home from the Philippines, the White House issued its strongest expression yet of anti- Marcos sentiment. Although the statement stopped short of endorsing the rebellion, it denounced Marcos for electoral fraud "so extreme as to impair the capacity of government in the Philippines...
...defending the bargain, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Schatzow told reporters that it was vital to U.S. security for the Government to be able to debrief John Walker and that Walker could not be forced to talk against his will. "We need to know what is broken and what must be fixed," Schatzow said. Although the bargain had been approved by Attorney General Edwin Meese and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Navy Secretary John Lehman attacked the deal. John and Michael Walker had committed "the gravest of all possible crimes," charged Lehman. Not giving them the maximum possible sentence, he added, sends...
...Israeli invasion of Lebanon last summer, Sharon, who was then Defense Minister, decided to halt Israel's practice of sharing tactical military information after Washington had held up the sale of 75 additional F-16 fighter planes to Israel. Next month a U.S. Air Force team will debrief Israeli pilots and infantry personnel on the tactics they used against Syria's Soviet-made planes, tanks and missiles...
...Brown provides fuller debrief: all helicopter crews accounted for; eight dead and three burned...
...emanate from Ronald Reagan and certain beer commercials. Those ads are splendidly mythic playlets, romantic idealizations of men in groups who blast through mountains or pour plumingly molten steel in factories, the work all grit and grin. Then they retire to flip around iced cans of sacramental beer and debrief one another in a warm sundown glow of accomplishment. As for Reagan, in his presidential campaign he enshrined work in his rhetorical "community of values," along with family, neighborhood, peace and freedom. He won by a landslide...