Word: unite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principal instrument of civilian control over the Soviet armed forces has always been the Communist Party. Officers were party members; political commissars were placed in every unit to ensure loyalty. With the collapse of the party, Soviet reformers must move quickly to put new mechanisms in place, including a civilian Defense Minister and means of legislative oversight, particularly of military spending...
...weakest unit on defense is the linebacker position, where Cozza will try to replace Jerry Joyce, who led the team in tackles last year, and captain Chris Gaughan...
...weakest unit on defense is the linebacker position, where Cozza will try to replace Jerry Joyce, who led the team in tackles last year, and captain Chris Gaughan...
...wake of the murders, Lithuanians staged a three-day demonstration, pitching tents in a field next to the Vilnius OMON base and demanding that the unit either disband or leave the republic. Dressed in fatigues and cradling automatic weapons, the Black Berets mocked the protesters. One of their own signs near the barbed wire separating the demonstration site from the OMON base read, THE SOVIET ARMY AND OMON: THE LAST DEFENDERS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IN LITHUANIA...
...Endara's nascent antidrug force is starting to score some seizures, thanks to an infusion of U.S. aid, but it remains badly outmanned and outgunned by the narco-traficantes. Says a senior official of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration: "The Endara government has had to create a viable antinarcotic unit from nothing. In our view it has done an excellent...