Word: specialist
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Although Rudenstine is the newest candidate in the public spotlight, he is by no means an unknown at Harvard. After leaving the University in 1968, the Renaissance literature specialist went on to climb the academic and administrative ladder at Princeton University, his alma mater...
...American battle dead of the war (a number of flyers have been listed as missing in action). An AC-130 gunship with a crew of 14 was shot down over Kuwait, and a male and a female soldier on a "transport mission" near Khafji were missing. The woman, Army Specialist Melissa Rathbun-Nealy, might be the first female American soldier ever to become a POW (though some nurses have been captured in previous wars...
...troops are aware of predictions that perhaps as many as 20,000 of them could be wounded or killed. They are particularly nervous about the threat of Iraqi chemical or biological warfare, and officers have no trouble enforcing regulations that protective gear be carried at all times. Says Specialist Robert Kraus, 20, of Jefferson Station, N.Y.: "There's fear to an extent. I am not saying the Army brainwashes you. But we train so much that we are used to what is going to happen...
...hastened the end of the cold war. But if the military spending splurge is not sharply curtailed, it could endanger the U.S. economy as well. "We have an unusually large number of new programs that are hitting a decision on full-scale procurement," explains Gordon Adams, a private defense specialist. "This fiscal bow wave is hitting just as the money is running...
Last week the Communist Youth organ Komsomolskaya Pravda baldly confirmed that the military had shifted thousands of tanks and artillery pieces across the Urals into Soviet Asia to spare them from the destruction required under the pact. Economist V. Litov, an international-affairs specialist, wrote in the conservative daily Sovietskaya Rossiya that the moves were needed to "correct the errors" of Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Litov called on legislators to reject the conventional-arms treaty. But Soviet diplomats were aghast. Said the liberal paper Moscow News: "The situation has given rise to understandable fears in the West about...