Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soldier, Ike had few illusions about the doomsday plans. A "secret" White House memo dated 1956 records his rebuke when a Cabinet Secretary noted that 450 people were evacuated "rather smoothly" during an exercise. Eisenhower "reminded the Cabinet that in a real situation, these will not be normal people -- they will be scared, will be hysterical, will be 'absolutely nuts.' We are going to have to be prepared to operate with people who are 'nuts...
...director of a Yugoslav bank that was later convicted of money laundering. Eagleburger has not been linked directly to any illegal or improper activities. But rather than endure the messy publicity that confirmation hearings would generate in the midst of the election season, Bush will probably ask Eagleburger to soldier on as Acting Secretary...
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER asks us to believe that the government learned to chemically reanimate dead Vietnam vets and turn them into immortal, radically improved fighting machines. It further posits a squad of these supertroopers running around the U.S. as a rogue police force. It's a whopper, all right. But Jean- Claude Van Damme is appealing as a "UniSol" whose memories of a previous life recur and lead him into rebellion. Roland Emmerich's film may be nothing more than lowbrow, high-cal entertainment, but with the action genre now encrusted with dubious aspirations (Alien 3, Batman Returns), it's good...
...test case of its ability to cope with the ethnic wars that increasingly loom as the greatest threat to world peace. So far, however, public opinion in the U.S. and Western Europe has not seen any strategic or humanitarian interests at sufficient risk to justify the sacrifice of one soldier's life. Even a carefully planned intervention that matches adequate force to clear and achievable political aims may not change that opinion. A slapdash expedition for unclear ends would have no chance...
Fans hoping to see more exciting athletic battles in the fall should walk across the street from Soldier's Field to Ohiri Field, where the women's field hockey team reigns supreme...