Word: lieut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recruiting Soviet spies was rising. In the fall of 1980 the FBI and CIA had launched Operation Courtship in the hope of penetrating the big KGB station in Washington. While Ames was in Mexico dining and cultivating KGB officers, the FBI netted two important Washington-based KGB spies: Lieut. Colonel Valeri Martynov, a scientific specialist who masqueraded as an embassy cultural- affairs officer; and Major Sergei Motorin, a political-affairs specialist. Their secret would not be safe...
...ascended, Maier waved to a small detachment of Rangers led by First Lieut. Tom DiTomasso, 26, that had just fought its way from the original target near the Olympic Hotel. Surveying the scene, one of DiTomasso's younger infantrymen, Sergeant Anton Berendsen, 19, thought to himself, "For sure we are going...
...then the Rangers could hear radio reports that a relief force led by Lieut. Colonel Danny McKnight, 42, was trying to smash its way through to them. They listened anxiously as a column of humvees and lightly armored trucks came within several blocks of their position -- and was forced to turn back because of repeated ambushes and heavy casualties...
...Sarajevo marketplace three weeks ago, it shook the rest of the world as well. After 22 months of hand wringing and empty threats, NATO finally responded with an ultimatum. While the Serbs were finding it politic to negotiate a deal with the new U.N. ground commander, British Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose, the prospect of NATO action moved an anxious Russia -- caught between loyalty to fellow Orthodox Slavs and its interests in cooperating with the West -- to intervene. Air strikes would have forced Boris Yeltsin to risk the wrath of Russian nationalists or to condemn the attacks and alienate international...
...prisons still incapacitate, incarcerate and punish, they no longer -- if they ever did -- deter crime. Indeed, in many inner-city neighborhoods, young men regard prison time as more a rite of passage than a deterrent. "Their father's been in prison, their brother's been in prison," says Lieut. Robert Losack, 30, who has served as a Texas prison guard for nine years. "It's socially acceptable; it's part of growing up." Once back on the street, these youths enjoy an enhanced status. They also pose a greater threat. "Prison culture becomes the model for street society," warns Jerome...