Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monies." A Washington radio station repeatedly broadcast Weinberger's office phone number so that listeners could call up to complain. After reading about the lab in his morning newspaper, Weinberger, who owns a male collie named Kilty, issued a terse one-line statement banning all Department of Defense dog shootings. Next a presumably weary Weinberger ordered a broad review of the Pentagon's use of animals in medical research and directed that no animals could be used for wound research until the study was completed...
First they start phasing out the classic Army Jeep in favor of a zippier modern vehicle. Now, if the Soldiers' Data Tag Task Force at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis has its way, the G.I.'s stamped metal dog tag will be replaced by a plastic wafer that only a computer can read and only an engineer could love...
...prototype, developed by Datakey Inc., located near Minneapolis, is about the same size as an old-fashioned dog tag. Saw-toothed on the edges and made of chocolate-colored plastic, it contains an embedded magnetic bit on which information about a soldier can be electronically recorded and, as needed, scanned by means of a portable microcomputer. Carrying the scanning device into the field, a medic could review a wounded soldier's complete medical history before administering drugs; a platoon leader might check out a soldier's pay or disciplinary record...
...Reagan's staff and was used to coach the Republican challenger. Journalists, who might well have disregarded the discovery as of scant consequence during the period when the new President was taking office, perceived high drama when the story surfaced in June. Washington was nearing the dog days of summer, and another campaign was beginning...
Most titillating are the stories recounted by Haile Selassie's personal aides, like the keeper of the dog Lulu, which regularly irrigated the shoes of officials who danced attendance on the Emperor. Recalled the keeper: "I had to walk among the dignitaries and wipe the urine from their shoes with a satin cloth. This was my job for ten years." The function of another aide was to act as the monarch's animated timepiece, bowing several times as "a signal to His Perspicacious Majesty that one hour was ending and that the time had come to start another...