Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third largest contingent assigned to the U.N. force. But the operation in which they lost three soldiers was reportedly not authorized by, not even known to, the U.N. commander in Somalia. And when the Italian commander subsequently received an order from his ostensible U.N. superior, he refused to obey. He would take his instructions from Rome, he said. The U.N. demanded that the Italian commander be relieved. Italy refused and threatened to pull out altogether...
...chemical and biological weapons but at least 18 countries stockpile either or both. An agreement among major supplying countries, most of them Western, limits the sale of ballistic missile systems. There are no enforcement provisions and North Korea pays no attention to it, while China promised Washington to obey the rules but continues to break them...
...consider myself neither morally nor legally bound to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented...
...labor strikes led by white unions. If the main parties persist in forming a transitional government, warned Groenewald, that could force whites to secede from South Africa. He refused to rule out leading an insurrection. It is an open question, he added, whether white-led government security forces would obey orders to suppress a white rebellion. That prospect worries many. Last week De Klerk acknowledged that he was only informed after the fact when the police cracked down on the militant Pan Africanist Congress and arrested 73 of its leaders. This move nearly threw negotiations off course again...
Only forty years ago, a president fired a five-star general because he did not obey executive orders in a reasonable amount of time. Yes, MacArthur was involved with actual troop movements, but years for closing bases and months for integrating gays are certainly unreasonable amounts of time. Clinton doesn't have to sack the Joint Chiefs, but he shouldn't have to put up with gridlock in a branch of government he controls...