Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night fell, we camped on high ground where we would be less vulnerable to attack than down in the valley. The usual tumult of rattling pots, squealing animals, shouting men and billowing fires began. I threw down my pack, my carbine, my helmet damp with cold sweat, and slumped to the ground. I felt drained. The lark was over. The exhilaration of a cocky 25-year-old American had evaporated in a single burst of gunfire. Somebody got killed today. Somebody was liable to get killed tomorrow, and the day after. This was not war movies on a Saturday afternoon...
...Army hopes to "digitize the battlefield" by linking every soldier and weapons system electronically. A research team led by Motorola and the Army R.-and-D. lab in Natick, Massachusetts, plans to unveil next year a prototype of the equipment that the "21st century land warrior" will have. His helmet will be fitted with microphones and earphones for communications, night-vision goggles and thermal-imaging sensors to see in the dark, along with a heads-up display in front of his eyes to show him where he is on the ground and give him constant intelligence updates...
After almost 60 years on the sidelines, in Lopez the court announced its willingness to get back into the business of drawing boundaries between federal and state authority. Brady Law restrictions on handgun sales, motorcycle-helmet requirements, the "motor-voter" program that requires states to let people register to vote when applying for a driver's license--after Lopez, all those could now be accused of resting on a thinly stretched interpretation of how the activity in question affects the national economy. But the ruling is no clear gift to Republicans. Federal crime-control measures that forbid everything from domestic...
Tacking on a series of provisions to a $13 billion highway-construction bill, the Senate voted to scrap the national 55-m.p.h. and 65-m.p.h. speed limits for passenger cars but decided to retain the limits for heavy trucks and buses. Senators agreed to leave motorcycle-helmet rules up to the states but insisted that "zero-tolerance" alcohol policies be adopted by all states for drivers under 21 and that federal seat-belt rules be retained. The bill now goes to the House...
...Halifax, Canada, for an economics summit, Chirac claimed that the rapid-reaction force would "have a serious and effective military capability" to come to the aid of Blue Helmet contingents in trouble. That sounded like a threat to both the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian government, but it was immediately undermined by the declarations made by peacekeeping officials on the ground in Bosnia. The senior U.N. representative, Yasushi Akashi, announced that the new force will operate under the same rules that have applied in the past and thus will undertake no actions without the consent of the Bosnian Serbs...