Word: trained
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...have been widely accused of committing atrocities against civilians. The facts are difficult to know; in a brutish guerrilla war, it is sometimes hard to distinguish between civilians and combatants. Although the U.S. military is currently barred from advising the contras, the Administration plans to send U.S. advisers to train them in their Honduran camps as soon as Congress passes an aid package. By instilling better discipline, U.S. advisers have been able to improve the behavior of Salvadoran troops; it is hoped that they would do the same for the contras...
...people were killed and 28 others were wounded in the blast, which virtually guaranteed that the first task facing Chirac will be the fight against terrorism. At week's end a rash of bomb hoaxes swept Paris, causing thousands of people to be evacuated from buildings and a train while police searched for explosives...
Concern is greatest, of course, in industries where mistakes can cost lives. Since 1975, about 50 train accidents have been attributed to drug- or alcohol- impaired workers. In those mishaps, 37 people were killed, 80 were injured, and more than $34 million worth of property was destroyed. In 1979, for instance, a Conrail employee was high on marijuana at the controls of a locomotive when he missed a stop signal and crashed into the rear of another train at Royersford, Pa. The accident killed two people and caused damages amounting...
...alcoholism, and have since been expanded to include drug abusers. The motivation behind the EAPs has been economic as well as humanitarian. Says Drug Consultant Ingebritson: "It's much easier to help a person who has been on the job for nine years than it is to hire and train someone to replace...
...commission's findings with some hedged language. "Wherever the commission's recommendations point the way to greater executive effectiveness, I will implement them," Reagan stated, "even if they run counter to the will of entrenched bureaucracies and special interests." Allowed one White House aide: "The Packard commission is a train we either jump on or get run over...