Word: nash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moving swiftly to establish authority, Major General William Nash, commander of the American forces in Bosnia, gathered leaders of the region's three warring factions to talk peace. The general met with a Bosnian Serb, a Bosnian Croat and a Bosnian army leader, of whom he said, "All of them focused on peace and pledged their determination to succeed with respect to the peace accord." Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo, meanwhile, were rebuffed by Admiral Leighton Smith, overall commander of the nato-led force, when they sought to delay the reunification of the Bosnian capital; the peace treaty demands that areas...
...trust them, and they're right. These are people who kill women and children and attack their neighbors. They're offended by me? Hell, I'm offended that I had to come here because of all their fighting." Though the Pentagon remained tightlipped about Fontenot's comments, General William Nash, commander of American forces in Bosnia, said on Thursday that he was "disappointed" by what he had read, and was "looking into it." TIME's senior Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson believes the incident raises serious questions about a commander's ability to motivate his troops. "He apparently made the remarks...
...gets stirred up by a big story, so her nickname is Mad Nash," says deputy International editor Charles Alexander. "But I like to call her Mad Dash because she'll drop everything instantly and go anywhere in the world to report...
...communicate her sense of excitement, Nash uses bold metaphorical leaps and descriptive passages that can bring to life a half-billion-year-old fossil ("plump Aysheaia," she writes, "prancing on caterpillar-like legs"). These gifts, says senior editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, make Nash "a national treasure--one of the few who can see the cutting edge of science, report it deeply, and then write about it with grace and style...
...Nash began her Time career 25 years ago as a "clip girl" in the Nation section and quickly moved up to correspondent, covering a variety of beats before devoting herself to science and writing and reporting a dozen or more memorable cover stories--so many, in fact, that she's lost track of the number. Like any great reporter, she works the beat around the clock. Her husband Thomas Nash is a particle physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory...