Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next week several hundred blue-helmeted United Nations troops are due to arrive in Yugoslavia. They are the vanguard of 14,000 soldiers from 30 countries, the first U.N. peacekeeping force ever deployed in Europe. Their mandate is to disarm the warring militias, monitor the withdrawal of the Serbian-dominated federal army from Croatia and protect the Serb minority in the breakaway republic...
...heroes of business are bosses and workers who view themselves as partners. So writes Charles Garfield in Second to None (Business One Irwin; 454 pages; $22.95), an account of such teamwork-based firms as Michigan's Steelcase and Maryland's Preston trucking. Garfield views these companies as the vanguard of a revolution that will turn top-down corporations into democratic workplaces...
...late spring and summer of 1942 would be a black time for the Soviet Union. An attempt to retake the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea failed. In May three Russian armies, the vanguard of a planned counteroffensive in Ukraine, were routed by German mechanized units in Kharkov. The Germans claimed to have captured 200,000 prisoners...
...vanguard is Kevorkian, a retired Michigan pathologist who appeared on every television talk show and news program in the country last year in the 24 hours after he helped Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins commit suicide. He hooked her up to a homemade contraption that allowed her to push a button and send lethal potassium chloride into her veins. A Michigan judge chose not to prosecute Kevorkian for murder, since the state has no laws against assisted suicide, but forbade him to use the machine again. By last week, Dr. Death had found a way around that injunction...
Ronald H. Brown, national Democratic Party chair, closed the forum by praising Kennedy for being "a vanguard on the cutting edge for constructive change in America...