Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least some Pentagon officials apparently felt the same way when they issued a subsequent report suggesting that Army and Air Force preparedness had indeed decreased during the Reagan term. But Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John W. Vessey, who joined the Weinberger attack on the Congressional document, publicly disputed those internal reports, and the official military line is to second Weinberger's outrage...
...joint appearance with the head of the ticket for a picnic and press conference Friday in Mondale's home town of Elmore, Minn. (pop. 882), Ferraro got a mixed reception from a curious crowd. As anti-abortion pickets stood on the fringes of the group, Ferraro stated courageously, if more than a bit redundantly, "The choice has to be the choice of the woman facing the choice." That drew applause. But she went on to assert that "the President walks around calling himself a good Christian, but I don't for one minute believe it because the policies...
Presiding amiably over the chaos are three transplants-St. Louisans Ed Moose and his wife Mary Etta and New Yorker Sam Dietsch-who shared a goal of "opening a joint, a bar with some food," in Dietsch's words. The food is Italian mezzo frillissimo. Though much convention business will doubtless be conducted around the Square's white-clothed tables, Dietsch declines to use the term power lunch. Says he: "Power lunches are for those who have enough power not to go back to work." The house softball squad, Les Lapins Sauvages, plans to come out of semiperpetual...
...appendix that made possible the creation of the Regional Military Training Center. The government of President Roberto Suazo Córdova has also been discreetly pressuring some 10,000 Honduran-based contras to move into Nicaragua. After playing host to as many as 5,000 U.S. servicemen and conducting joint military exercises with the U.S. almost continuously over the past 18 months, Honduras now houses fewer than 700 U.S. troops and has asked that the exercises be scaled down...
...troops and materiel northward in the event of an attack by Nicaragua. They were nonetheless willing to accept the offer until Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle injudiciously announced that hundreds of military personnel would be responsible for the project and that their presence "would be the first such joint exercises in Costa Rica." With a menacing Nicaragua urging it to remain on the side lines, Costa Rica began backing away from the road project, then canceled it. Two months ago, 30,000 Costa Ricans flocked into the streets to reaffirm their country's neutrality...