Word: commandeering
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...Even in the Marines things get messy. At the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, known to servicemen as Gitmo, a private is dead -- the result of harassment by two members of his platoon. The victim was a screw-up who compounded his sins by stepping outside the chain of command to report a rules infraction and seek a transfer. A "Code Red" -- informal disciplinary action by his barracksmates -- is suspected. But are the offenders wholly culpable? Or did they act under orders (or tacit encouragement) from superior officers...
...oblige. Some 1.5 million Somalis may starve to death, he said, because armed gangs have been stealing relief supplies, and "only the U.S. has the global reach" to cope with the crisis. Washington had earlier made the U.N. an offer it could not refuse: the U.S. would organize and command a U.N. force and supply most of the troops...
...relationship became the first item of debate. Washington has consistently refused to entrust its soldiers to U.N. command, but this time Bush conceded a supervisory role to both Boutros-Ghali and the Security Council, not least because the President expects the U.N. to pick up where he leaves off. The Bush Administration would not have undertaken any deployment of its forces without firm assurances that blue helmets would replace the Americans in short order...
...admit it. I'm Jewish. I don't go to Hillel; I eat my share of shrimp; and I listen to Wagner. And my last name is as goyishe as it gets. But I'm Jewish. I live in Manhattan; I can quote Woody on command; and I observe (Jews never "celebrate") in varying degrees of intensity the high points of the Jewish ritual calendar...
When Yeltsin decapitated the old command system without putting something new in its place, Russia became a battlefield on which the concepts of free enterprise and state control went...