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So far U.S. officials in Iraq are steering clear of the M word, referring instead to a platoon's refusal to take part in a supply convoy as "a temporary breakdown in discipline." Some of the 19 reservists who declined to obey orders to transport fuel through frequently ambushed territory on Wednesday phoned their parents and begged them to tell members of Congress that this was a "suicide mission" because of the miserable condition of their unarmored vehicles. "Mom, I need you to raise pure hell," Specialist Amber McClenny said in a message on her family's answering machine...
...northern stronghold of Shebarghan. Dostum's idea of campaigning is to sit on a thronelike chair in his rose garden and scowl at a line of deferential tribal elders, officials and militia commanders who will be expected to deliver votes from among the Uzbeks. Those who don't obey suffer--such as one Uzbek man whose wife was kidnapped when he refused to rejoin Dostum's forces...
...Follow me, ” the middle aged man says, and I obey. Although he’s a stranger, I have no choice; I’m stumbling through a Bavarian suburb after 10 p.m. in search of my budget pension, and I’m thoroughly lost. Finally though, someone is helping me. The man, sporting a full Bavarian moustache-and-mullet deal, must be my pension (that’s European for cheap hotel) owner, coming out to look for me. His ’do symbolizes relief...
...also be able to rely on unexpected allies in the army, where he is No. 2 to Jiang. Last month Gen. Chi Haotian, a retired Defense Minister long considered supportive of Jiang, wrote in Seeking Truth, a Party magazine, that the army must "at all times obey the Party" and "cannot concentrate power in a few individuals." Chi then praised Deng for his quick resignation as head of the military in 1989: "He just said 'bye-bye,' picked up his briefcase and left." This, wrote Chi, showed that Deng was a "truly selfless man, a man who considered the overall...
...call that will exhaust our arms and propel us over rapids and submerged rocks. "Go left!" and "Go right!" involve two paddlers throwing themselves across the raft - and usually onto their fellow paddlers with varying degrees of injury - while I will become the first of the trip to obey the "Dive!' command, flinging myself flat to avoid being impaled on a black branch rearing out of the water. We spend the first night, as we will every night, on air mattresses under the glittering sky, in the deep sleep of the very weary. We have about...