Word: command
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late last week -- almost a dozen times as much as the Exxon Valdez leaked into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. And this time any cleanup could be a deadly mission in itself. The spill is "in enemy territory," says Marine Major General Robert Johnston, the U.S. Central Command's chief of staff. "We can't just go in and shut...
Under a 1981 Executive Order, the U.S. government is forbidden to participate in assassination. But the rules of battle arguably supercede that prohibition. In wartime, international law recognizes military commanders as legitimate targets; as commander in chief of Iraqi forces, Saddam thus qualifies. (Of course, so does President Bush.) Washington's denials notwithstanding, Saddam has been pursued by allied bombers. His presidential palace has been hit; his command-and-contro l centers have been hit; most of the places allied intelligence thought Saddam might be have been...
That was just one day after the withdrawing Soviet tanks turned around and rolled back into Budapest. Soviet commanders claimed they were doing so at the request of Kadar, who was actually hiding in a Soviet command post outside the city. Nagy took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy but was later lured out, seized and hanged. After about a month of sporadic fighting, the Hungarian revolt was liquidated...
...carriers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. Eventually, about 2,000 planes of the U.S. and six allied nations -- Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Saudi Arabia and the Kuwaiti government-in- exile -- hit targets throughout Iraq and Kuwait (though the French, - independent even when submitting to American command in war, would bomb only Iraqi airfields and forces in Kuwait...
...worked. After the first raids, U.S. and allied planes pounded targets throughout Kuwait and Iraq around the clock, not so much in waves as in a steady stream. Drawing targets from a 600-page daily computerized assignment book, they were concentrating at week's end on missile sites, command and control units, troop complexes and artillery sites. They also hit Baghdad again before dawn Saturday, knocking out the city's electricity and water and destroying the central telecommunications facility. By Sunday they had flown more than 4,000 sorties (one plane flying one mission). About 80% were said to have...