Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Individual results may be impressive, but foreign policy by franchise loses the force and coherence of a guiding intelligence. "Every once in a while someone wanders into the engine room and pulls the throttle," says Scowcroft, "but it's hard to see that anyone is in charge of the train." The result is that "officials from other countries I talk to say we're fundamentally unreliable, which is the worst thing you can say about U.S. foreign policy...
...says task force commander Colonel James McDonough, "we're going in first. Just give us the word." The troops are ready to fight, but they have also been mastering crowd control, learning the skills of dealing with civilian authorities, soothing ruffled residents. "My guys want to do what we train for," says Sergeant-Major Gerald Parks, his face painted green and black. "If people are dying in Bosnia and we can help...
...radars. Once in place, the I-FOR troops, unlike the hapless U.N. peacekeepers, will go where they please and have "the unimpeded right to observe, monitor and inspect'' whatever they like. All sides, moreover, are committed to working out military parity. To accomplish this, the U.S. will equip and train the weaker Bosnian army while the Serbs, in turn, will be required to trim back their forces...
...After the last two decades of the fantastic growth of corruption...people just feel you might as well get on the gravy train," said Larry Diamond, a Nigerian specialist and senior research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute...
...early this morning in Riyadh, killing six people, five of them American workers. U.S. Ambassador Ray Mabus confirmed that an explosive device had been found. The blast wounded at least 60 people, including 34 Americans. The attack targeted a building where retired and active U.S. military personnel advise and train the Saudi National Guard, an organization whose chief purposes are to protect the Saudi monarchy and maintain domestic order. Two groups have claimed responsibility. One, a previously unknown organization calling itself the Tigers of the Gulf, said it wants to drive Americans out of Saudi Arabia. There are other possible...