Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diplomatic phalanx went into furious motion last week as Washington stewed over martial means and ends. Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose Gulf War success carries great weight, spoke up on Kosovo after weeks of silence. A foreign policy imbroglio that requires military force needs clear, precise goals if that force is to be used wisely, advised the retired Army general. "You have to have pretty solid political objectives, and then apply decisive force to them," he said. "Nothing in the Powell doctrine says no casualties." He pointedly noted that the Gulf War planners...
...valleys the Apaches would follow into Kosovo, just waiting for the gunships to cross the frontier. "The Apaches are MANPADs magnets," an Army officer says, referring to the acronym for Man-Portable Air Defense System, used for the small-missile launchers. "We keep asking the Army," a Joint Staff officer says, "how many Apaches they think are going to come back." That's why the helicopters--initially heralded as saviors--still sit at their Albanian base, twiddling their rotor blades...
...first we moved discreetly, quietly addressing a petition to the Joint Committee on Appointments, whose members are drawn from Harvard's governing boards and whose job is to approve the president's affirmative tenure recommendations. (Legal investiture of tenure technically comes from the governing boards.) My petition was summarily dismissed, not by the Joint Committee, but by Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor, who said she had investigated my complaint and found it to be without merit, and who, yes, represents the president whose decision I am appealing. Apparently, callousness to conflict of interest pervades the process...
...this point, the secretary of the University, and then the provost, and later the general counsel, each independently, suggested to us that instead of the Joint Committee on Appointments we should go through the grievance procedure administered by Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Initially, we reacted with incredulity. How, we asked, could the dean of a particular Faculty review a decision taken by the University's president? How could we expect fairness in a process run by the very dean's office that assembled the ad hoc committee whose flaws I was contesting...
...package of potential targets next headed down the Potomac from the CIA to the Pentagon basement, home to the Joint Staff's directorate for targets and from there to the U.S. European Command in Germany and to NATO. All were charged with making sure that any bombs that went astray would do scant harm. No one raised an alarm...