Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their first U.S. project was Universal Soldier, a hearty exercise in RoboCop sadomachismo that starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Then, in 1994 Emmerich and Devlin did Stargate, about a secret government agency detecting signs of extraterrestrial life and discovering that the pyramids were made by aliens. With Kurt Russell as the director's standard rogue grunt, the film was a surprise...
...Communists might capture a few cabinet-level positions. "There is a general release of tension, and a feeling of hope after an unusually tense campaign season," says Quinn-Judge. The tension has not vanished from Yeltsin's own camp, however. Alexander Lebed, recruited by Yeltsin after the former soldier finished a strong third in the election's first round, is alienating some of Yeltsin's camp with his bold demands. "Lebed is ruffling feathers by saying he feels he is the savior of the country," says Quinn-Judge. "Lebed recently announced that in addition to the sweeping powers he already...
Lebed, a professional soldier all his life, has an image as a rough-hewn nationalist and patriot. As an airborne commander in Afghanistan, Tbilisi and the former Soviet republic of Moldova, he was famous for using force first and asking questions later, if at all. His troops wielded shovels to crack civilian skulls in rebellious Georgia and let fly with heavy artillery to protect Russian separatists from ethnic Moldovans. He was also fairly insubordinate. "He smashed the Russian army tradition of servility to superiors," says Colonel Victor Baranets, a staff officer at the Defense Ministry. "He calls a spade...
...ornery iconoclast (the man will sometimes disagree for the sake of disagreeing), not that he hates being bridled (just try to get him to follow a schedule), not that he's ambivalent about Bill Clinton (and a lot of other things), but that he's a good soldier...
...After this last and most anguishing loss, Labor is likely to turn to a younger generation to carry the cause of peace in opposition. A leading contender is Ehud Barak, 54, the articulate, highly educated outgoing Foreign Minister and former military Chief of Staff. As Israel's most decorated soldier, he is the logical claimant to Rabin's tough-guy peacemaker mantle; ironically his elegant eulogy for Netanyahu's fallen-hero brother Jonathan is reprinted in Hebrew textbooks. Another possible standard bearer is Haim Ramon, 46, the outgoing Minister of Interior who proved his vote-winning talents in 1994 when...