Word: jointness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Operation Horseshoe was a military plan designed and run under the auspices of Belgrade's general staff--as if the Joint Chiefs of Staff had planned and executed an operation to cleanse some ethnic population out of Texas. The job of actually bending the horseshoe fell to a special coordinating team that drew on both the MUP special police and Serbian paramilitaries. Many of these killers were visible in parts of Kosovo last week--sometimes stripped to the waist, heads shaved, making threatening gestures to anyone who challenged them...
...Pentagon has stumbled painfully into clan warfare in Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia. In such conflicts, $2 billion B-2 bombers may be able to punish from the air but it takes G.I. boots on the ground to secure the peace. And according to the doctrine of the former Joint Chiefs Chairman, General Colin Powell, America should always go into these conflicts as the biggest, baddest force on the block. Go in to win, Powell said, and know how you're going to get out. These new conflicts--with their delicate ethnic nuances--make that harder. The Marines' mission in Kosovo...
...squad is just beginning its 3:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. shift. Sergeant Pete Fenton tells them about a fresh homicide and about a tree that will be planted in Marc's honor out front. A chalkboard advisory warns against dining at a certain fast-food joint because a cook with a grudge, just out of jail, is bound to add special ingredients to any cop's dinner...
...having lunch with Tim McGraw, the country-music superstar, at a family-style Southern-food joint in Nashville. Your observations and reflections: 1) McGraw is one of those guys who actually belong in a cowboy hat. He looks cool in a cowboy hat. If you've ever seen, say, a presidential candidate in a cowboy hat, you know this is not always an easy trick to pull off. 2) Right now McGraw is wearing a hat that his wife, the country-music superstar Faith Hill, gave him--a baseball cap with COVER GIRL written above the brim. Several fellow diners...
...Maggie, 10 months, strive to keep family first. The McGraws live right outside Nashville but are on the road three months of the year. The kids travel with Hill, but both Mom and Dad constantly stop in at each other's shows to steal quality time together. A joint tour may soon be in the offing. Hill, who recently inked an endorsement deal with Cover Girl cosmetics, describes herself as "very independent," but nonetheless, offstage she prefers to go by her husband's name. Says Hill: "I really think of myself as Mrs. McGraw...