Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doyle described the forewarned colonists' resistance to Major Pitcairn's British Regulars ("General Parker will steady his men and exhort them to courage..."), and General Thaddeus Parker's famous order, "Don't fire until fired upon, but if they will have war, let it begin here...
Shattuck's March 31 report calls on the next President to "signal a shift in policy" by issuing an executive order within its first 100 days loosening the classification and export control strictures. The 41 st President's agenda should be premised on "principles that justify the revision of the existing system of controls," the report says...
...condescending for Matthew H. Joseph ("Questioning Jesse's Credentials," 4/16) to ask, regarding Mr. Jackson, "Why does he think he deserves to be President?", and to assume that Mr. Jackson should have held some major elected office in order to be a serious contender for the Presidency...
...houses 22,600 inmates. Gates' combined antigang task forces have arrested more than 1,100 gang members in the past five weeks, an impressive performance that is marred by the fact that the county sheriff was forced to give early release to 1,200 prisoners in order to make room for the newcomers. "We have $500 million in jail construction in progress," says James Painter, who, as chief of the Los Angeles sheriff's custody division, oversees a jail system that is larger than the prison facilities in any of 46 states. "But our projections show that by the time...
...envoys at Geneva sign this week, it will bring to an end Moscow's major military involvement of the past 20 years. Soviet troops invaded in December 1979 in order to replace one Communist leader, Hafizullah Amin, with Babrak Karmal, another Communist but one more amenable to Soviet thinking on many issues. Soviet troops quickly became enmeshed in fighting with the budding resistance movement. Moscow has tried to defeat the rebels with everything from carpet bombing to lightning commando attacks, all to no avail. Soviet offers of bribes, cease-fires and amnesties have also failed to quell the mujahedin...