Word: commandeers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harrisville, N.H., the Elm Research Institute has funded a project headed by Dr. Eugene Smalley of the University of Wisconsin to come up with a hardier elm. The tree is called the American Liberty Elm (after a famed Massachusetts tree under which George Washington purportedly took command of the Continental Army in 1775). The American Liberty has a smaller cell structure that prevents Dutch elm disease from spreading through the tree's vascular system. So far, Elm Research has distributed 75,000 of the new trees for prices ranging from $ $2 to $5 each, a good start on its target...
...worth remembering: good motives do not always make good movies. Too often Hollywood finds in the Holocaust a familiar, convenient parable of sanctified martyrdom and slavering sadism. Thorny issues are begged, compelling stories avoided. The dark psychology of the death-camp administrator, himself captive in a twisted chain of command, is rarely investigated. Neither is the prisoner's natural impulse to survive at any cost, which gave rise to "the Jewish members of the GPU, the Capos, the thieves, speculators, informers," as Singer describes them in Enemies, a Love Story. Instead, characters are as reductive as in any old-time...
Responsibility for that failure lies with the military -- particularly the Defense Department's Southern Command -- not with Komarow or his seven colleagues in the pool. From the time the hastily summoned reporters arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on the night of the invasion until they returned from Panama four days later, the Army kept them under such tight control that journalistic initiative was all but impossible...
...Komarow says, "it was pretty much by accident." He notes, for example, that the pool did witness looting in Panama City, but only when their military driver lost his way. Exposure to actual combat was also a matter of chance, as when Noriega forces attacked the Southern Command's headquarters, about 400 yards from the press center...
...East Germany, Czechoslovakia -- a disbelieving but increasingly hopeful world watched and waited for a crackdown that never came. In every case, the disintegration of the communist system was hastened by economic crises. Marx was right: politics is driven by economics. But his 20th century followers were spectacularly wrong. A command economy can grow only by exploiting farmers and workers; eventually there is no incentive for the workers to work or the farmers to farm in a society in which they have no say in the allocation of resources. Giving them a say means giving them a voice -- a concept best...