Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pentagon officials deny that the military is exploiting blacks and insist that the disproportionate numbers are the random result of America's decision in 1973 to replace the draft with an all-volunteer force. They also point to the example of Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, whose rise to the top ranks of the U.S. military stands as a striking illustration of the career opportunities that have long attracted African Americans into the armed forces. Nor is Powell alone at the top: 26 of the Army's 407 generals are black...
...Pentagon officials insist that the pools are intended to help reporters gain access and to avoid the nightmare of more than 700 journalists all trying to reach the front lines at once. "Having reporters running around would overwhelm the battlefield," says Colonel Bill Mulvey, director of the military's Joint Information Bureau in Dhahran...
...march in Moscow and a stream of warnings from abroad, the Kremlin has not backed down. Its armed forces continue to rumble through the tiny republics' streets, seizing buildings and striking threatening attitudes. The Interior and Defense ministries have announced that the national police and the army will begin joint patrols next month in all major cities, apparently including the Baltic capitals. They claimed the move was intended to fight the increase in violent crime, but the heavily armed patrols will obviously be available for any tasks Moscow assigns them...
...seemed intended to make a political rather than a military statement. As sitzkrieg turned to blitzkrieg, however, the 28-country alliance proved to be more than international window dressing. Within 24 hours the combined effort made a public believer out of General Colin Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It seems to me," he said, "the coalition is holding together rather well...
...allies are attempting to minimize casualties; Saddam will try to make the war supremely bloody. To exactly that end, however, he will try to drag out the fighting as long as possible. Right now he is "hunkering down" -- in the words of General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- putting up only minimal resistance to the air campaign and saving all possible resources to fight what the Iraqi leader keeps calling "the mother of all battles" on the ground...