Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most remarkable aspect of Brack's assignment has been the Pentagon's request for his measurements. Reason: the Defense Department wants to make sure it has a safety suit in his size in case Iraq uses chemical weapons. "You can't keep worrying about it, but the possibility of a gas attack is always in the back of your mind," says Brack, who took this week's cover picture. The subject, however, rarely comes up in Brack's conversations with the soldiers; instead, the troops keep asking him what the people back home think about the crisis...
...federal agents believe his behavior is an act designed to avoid prosecution. Recalls John Pritchard, a former FBI supervisor: "Once in 1985 I saw Gigante walk outdoors in a bathrobe. He climbed into a car, and several blocks later the robe came off and he was wearing a suit...
...know -- Tom Hayden." The forces arrayed against Big Green say their funding comes from California agricultural, chemical and business sources. But the proposal's supporters charge that pesticide companies are trying to mask their contributions behind ambiguously named front groups. Last week Los Angeles city attorney James Hahn filed suit against one anti-Big Green group, alleging that it violated a new law requiring disclosure of funding sources in political...
...tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic. "This is not Panama or Grenada," says a man who has served both Reagan and Bush. "This is a deal with no known end," and the long haul is not America's strong suit. "The risk that is we won't be patient and determined enough to undertake the pressures of long-term commitment," says House Speaker Tom Foley...
...that has infected the 4.5 million- strong Soviet armed forces. It has spread beyond nationalist resentment into the very nature and role of the army itself. Estonia and Lithuania have passed legislation allowing draft-age boys to opt out of military service, and Georgia and Russia may soon follow suit. In this year's spring call-up, the number of outright draft dodgers has grown to an estimated 20,000. In Armenia a mere 7% of draftable boys bothered to answer their induction notices...