Word: unite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became involved in an unauthorized plan for a 1981 raid into Laos to find Americans thought to be missing in action since the Viet Nam War. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was so incensed that he ordered the Army's secret intelligence unit disbanded, but it survived to collect information on terrorists in Lebanon, among other activities...
...Congress was not told that $20 million of that sum went to set up a supersecret intelligence unit, the ISA, under the command of Colonel Jerry , King. (The role of regular Army intelligence is to collect tactical military information, not to lay the ground for covert operations.) ISA initially was to act as a pathfinder for secret missions, but its functions quickly expanded. When General William Odom became assistant chief of staff for intelligence in late 1981, he argued persuasively that ISA was needed to fill gaps in the CIA's activities. Its personnel grew from about...
...girl, who suffered burns over a fourth of her body, was in critical condition at the intensive care unit of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor...
...sexes. The cinemas, which are often jammed, feature both postrevolutionary Iranian fare and heavily censored foreign films. One recent hit was Barabbas, a 1962 picture starring Anthony Quinn. Another was the Iranian film The Call of the Forest, which dealt with the popular resistance to the Cossacks, a cavalry unit at one time led by the late Shah's father Reza Shah, who ruled Iran from...
Such feisty competitiveness is a sign that the computer slump is history. From 1984 through 1986, worldwide unit sales of personal computers stayed virtually flat. But this year sales are expected to rise nearly 13%, as customers plunk down $35 billion to buy about 17 million machines, according to estimates from Dataquest. Slugging it out for many of those dollars are personal computing's Front Four: IBM (which had a 26% slice of last year's market), Apple (which had 8%), Tandy (5%) and Compaq (3%). The remaining 58% of the world market has been carved up by about...