Word: refashioned
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From their headquarters in a former brassiere factory in Port-au-Prince, the Green Berets have fanned out to more than 500 villages. Upon arriving, they have often been forced to refashion local government after the soldiers and strongmen who terrorized the area faded away like zombies in the night, leaving behind a brutalized population. In Mirebalais, the prodemocracy deputy mayor was beheaded and his body thrown into a nearby river. At the prison in Les Cayes, inmates were treated so abominably that one man's spine was visible through the lesions on his back...
...Sung got his chance to refashion himself when he fled Manchuria for the Soviet Union in 1939 or 1940, as the Japanese Imperial Army was trouncing the Chinese guerrillas. He was assigned to the Khabarovsk Infantry Officers School and given a captain's commission along with command of the Soviet-led ethnic Korean battalion. In Khabarovsk he married Kim Chong Suk, who had joined Kim Il Sung's guerrillas in 1935 and had followed him into exile. After the Soviets entered the war in 1945 and occupied Japan's northeast Asian territories, Kim and 66 fellow officers were sent...
...their admirers, but neither property could be sold as is to the U.S. mass audience. Some expert renovation was in order. Cunning Hollywood script doctors had to approach the European originals not as finished portraits but as sketches in need of coherence, heart, pizazz. It's what rewriters do: refashion a boutique item so it will jump off the shelves at the mall...
...Democratic victory may also render moot the 10-month-long effort by the student-faculty committee on ROTC to refashion Harvard's ties with ROTC, which bars gays and lesbians from its ranks. Clinton has promised to strike down by executive order the Pentagon's exclusionary practices...
...triumph came not a minute too soon. The crucial NATO gathering demanded more from the U.S. than Bush's hypercautious hedging, ready or not. Ever since Gorbachev promised last December to slash Soviet forces in Europe, he had been bombarding an awed Europe with proposal after proposal to refashion the Continent's military balance, his way, while the U.S. stood idly by. And for the past two months, the U.S. and Britain had brawled with West Germany over whether and when to modernize NATO's few remaining short-range nuclear missiles in West Germany or trade them away. More broadly...