Word: odom
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...There's been five or six years of deterioration, virtually no training, massive draft resistance," says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General William Odom, a former director of the National Security Agency. "They have physically unhardened soldiers commanded by officers who have had to sell off most of their equipment just to keep the troops fed." A senior Pentagon official who visited Russia recently saw "missile units foraging in the countryside for food like it was the 1890s, not the 1990s...
...there are some experts who think the CIA is beyond repair. "The CIA should be shut down because its banner has too many cold war stains," says William Odom, a retired three-star Army general who ran the National Security Agency, the government's electronic eavesdropping arm, during the Reagan Administration. The Pentagon and State Department could perform most of its tasks, he says, and a new, truly secret unit could handle spy missions...
...which the late Richard Nixon was a master -- is by now a drearily familiar problem with Clinton's foreign policy, which often seems improvised day to day. "It's just a series of ad hoc responses trying to get past the press questions of the day," says William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's electronic-snooping arm. And the reason is simple: the President will not devote the time and attention necessary to map out a steady and consistent foreign policy. Stung by such criticism, aides have taken to tallying a list of "substantive presidential...
...family for no reason she cares to articulate. Her husband (Albert Finney) mopes and eats mayonnaise-and-potato-chip sandwiches. Their younger daughter drops out of high school. An older daughter drops back in on their South Carolina home, married, pregnant and edgy. The domestic disorders of the Odom family are shown quite realistically in RICH IN LOVE. But they are not comically or dramatically painted by writer Alfred Uhry and director Bruce Beresford (the Driving Miss Daisy team) as the movie drifts to a predictably sweet conclusion. Its heart is surely in the right place, but it desperately needs...
Straight Out of Brooklyn with George Odom and Ann Sander...