Word: veterans
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...Castro moved on Ochoa to send a message to the military, he could not have picked a better target. Enormously popular among the troops, Ochoa is a veteran of Castro's revolution who has commanded troops in Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua. In 1984 he received the Hero of the Cuban Republic medal, the military's highest honor. Last week Ochoa was removed as a full member of the Communist Party Central Committee and an elected delegate to the National Assembly. The move against Ochoa may have been personal as well as symbolic. His popularity may have threatened Defense Minister Raul...
...owner Karen Shaffer, 43, who bears a striking resemblance to Carol Burnett: "We talk about boobs a lot." Jazzercise is also an hour of dancing, something that women seem to like a good deal more than men do. Says writer and editor Phyllis Kluger, 51, a six-year Jazzercise veteran: "I enjoy dancing, and, if I come here, I don't have to think, 'Oh, my husband never takes me out dancing...
...might help me make the transition from Dallas to the East more smoothly. But, despite my anticipated (and realistic) longings for the creature comforts of home, a look back at first year convinces me that both my parents and old Polonius knew what they were talking about. As a veteran of roommate wars over the surreptitiously borrowed and later stained white shirt or formal dress, I will be the first to say that borrowing and lending can have their disadvantages...
...industry to announce last week the creation of a $250 million plan to prevent and clean up future spills. In the wake of Washington's defense-procurement scandals, Boeing beefed up its ethics committee. "It's a no-nonsense program," says committee head Malcolm Stamper, an aerospace veteran. "There's no winking. If we find out that a program official is obtaining marketing information improperly...
Burn an American flag? The patriotic mind recoils. Reverence for the flag is ingrained in every schoolchild who has quailed at the thought of letting it touch the ground, in every citizen moved by pictures of it being raised at Iwo Jima or planted on the moon, in every veteran who has ever heard taps played at the end of a Memorial Day parade, in every gold-star mother who treasures a neatly folded emblem of her family's supreme sacrifice...