Word: defectiveness
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...EPWs have told interrogators that their company commanders were held directly accountable for desertions and that all troops were forced to sign an oath promising not to defect. Some EPWs told of seeing fellow soldiers hanged by loyalist execution squads and left suspended as a warning to would-be runaways...
...some U.S. school districts are trying a businesslike solution: warranties. For periods of one to three years, 68 schools in Prince George's County, Md.; Plymouth-Carver, Mass.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Montrose County, Colo.; Harlem, Ill.; and dozens of other districts guarantee defect-free graduates to prospective employers. These small districts may soon be joined by the nation's largest, New York City, where schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez has proposed a pilot program starting as early as this fall...
...Iraqi frontline troops, those in Khafji fought tenaciously, prolonging the battle for hours after the Saudis announced they had retaken the town. One column of tanks approached the Saudi border with their guns pointing backward, which allied forces took as a sign that the troops manning them wanted to defect; instead the Iraqis swiveled their turrets around rapidly and opened fire. There was a bitter possibility that the very first Americans known to have died in combat in the gulf, the 11 Marines, were killed by misguided missiles from U.S. warplanes rather than by Iraqi fire. An investigative team...
...built- in constituency. But it may make few new converts. Unless one knows the book or TV show, the plot is hard to get involved in, especially in the breakneck opening minutes. The love scenes, although competently acted, are so flatly written that they lack emotional intensity, a defect that the lush, quasi-operatic score only partly makes up for. In the script's soap-opera view of life, sexual passion and jealousy drive even political revolutions. And there are echoes of the worst musical of the 1980s, the Shroud of Turin howler Into the Light, in the finale...
...dancers' defections have touched off propaganda attacks by rival Cambodian political factions. Sponsors of the 36-member troupe have accused enemies of the communist government of Hun Sen of intimidating the dancers with death threats and pressuring them to defect in order to embarrass Phnom Penh. A spokesman for Prince Sihanouk denied the charges and in turn accused Hun Sen of exploiting the dancers to polish his regime's image...