General Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid () ( December 15, 1934 – August 1, 1996 ) was a controversial Somali military leader, often described as a warlord.

He recalls in his book, In the Company of Heroes, that he believed that he may have seen General Aidid behind the cameraman as he was being filmed briefly by film reporters during his captivity.

Hussein Mohamed Farrah, son of General Aidid, immigrated to the United States when he was 17 years old.

William F. Garrison is a retired Major General of the United States Army who was the commander of Operation Gothic Serpent, the military operation launched in 1993 to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

Garrison retired from the Army at the rank of Major General on 3 August 1996, the day after Mohammed Farrah Aidid died.

This did not work as General Aidid who was member of USC refused the outcome of the USC conference and called for armed war against the new government lead by Ali Mahdi with the support of his immediate tribe the Habargidir.

To many this was a hopeful sign for peace but unfortunately it was not satisfactory to General Aidid who in less than a couple of months started what is known as the four months war which is the bloodiest war Somalia has ever seen ... This particular war also led to the mass starvation of hundred of thousand in the Bay and Bakol regions which were under the control of Aidid and his militia.

The warring between these two leaders continued on through the 1992 – 95 UN missions to Somalia ( UNOSOM I, UNOSOM II, and UNITAF ). As the international community came to save the starving Somalis from the brutality of General Aidid.

Unfortunately once again General Aidid saw this a threat to his power ambitions and started attacking the US forces which led to the eventual collapse of the mission.

General intelligence was not hindered, and it was concluded that declining performance was related to how long the patient had been suffering from the disease.

Further south General Colloredo's Austrian I Corps was hindered by General Lecourbe's Armée du Jura that was largely made up of National Guardsmen and other reserves.

Under Director General John Birt, Perkins also felt " hamstrung by the inevitable bureaucracy ," which not only hindered programme-making, but saw Perkins spending " more time on budgets " than more creative pursuits.

Hitler's personal intervention also greatly hindered the effective working of the General Staff, notably by confirming Gerd von Rundstedt's order to halt short of Dunkirk in 1940.

In other words, the Secretary General is to be a nonpartisan, international servant, not a political, national one.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

In the United Nations General Assembly's 1947 resolution to partition Palestine, Bethlehem was included in the special international enclave of Jerusalem to be administered by the United Nations.

With such business implications in mind, David Liddle ( General Manager, Xerox Office Systems ) and Metcalfe ( 3Com ) strongly supported a proposal of Fritz Röscheisen ( Siemens Private Networks ) for an alliance in the emerging office communication market, including Siemens ' support for the international standardization of Ethernet ( April 10, 1981 ).

General Khan faced an international reaction against Pakistan, and therefore, General Tikka was removed as Commander of Eastern front.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is a multilateral agreement regulating international trade.

Though established independently of the United Nations through its own international treaty, the IAEA Statute, the IAEA reports to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

In 1953, the President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, proposed the creation of an international body to both regulate and promote the peaceful use of atomic power ( nuclear power ), in his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly.

In September 1954, the United States proposed to the General Assembly the creation of an international agency to take control of fissile material, which could be used either for nuclear power or for nuclear weapons.

A true International English might supplant both current American and British English as a variety of English for international communication, leaving these as local dialects, or would rise from a merger of General American and standard British English with admixture of other varieties of English and would generally replace all these varieties of English.

They can be classified into two categories: declarations, adopted by bodies such as the United Nations General Assembly, which are not legally binding although they may be politically so as soft law ; and conventions, which are legally binding instruments concluded under international law.

Its use is recommended by the General Conference on Weights and Measures and other international organizations.

The borders of Albania again became the cause of international conflict when Italian General Enrico Tellini and four of his assistants were ambushed and killed on 24 August 1923 while marking out the newly decided border between Greece and Albania.

In 1988, she became the first First Lady invited to address the United Nations General Assembly, where she spoke on international drug interdiction and trafficking laws.

* 1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.

On May 20, 1875, 17 of 20 countries signed a document known as the Metric Convention or the Treaty of the Meter which established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures under the control of an international committee elected by the General Conference on Weights and Measures.

General: Symbols for quantities should be chosen according to the international recommendations from ISO 80000, the IUPAP red book and the IUPAC green book.

Membership in international organizations includes the United Nations, Organization of African Unity, African Development Bank, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), Economic Commission for Central African States, Central African Customs and Economic Union, International Coffee Organization, Union of Central African States, INTELSAT, International Criminal Police Organization-Interpol, Non-Aligned Movement, and Group of 77.

In July 2003 the Governor General of Solomon Islands issued an official request for international help, which was subsequently endorsed by a unanimous vote of the parliament.

But it was mostly his international critical renown which enabled Eisenstein to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).

On 14 December, 1960, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 ( XV ) under titled Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples provided for the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples in providing an inevitable legal linkage between self-determination and its goal of decolonisation, and a postulated new international law-based right of freedom also in economic self-determination.

In 1971, the Republic of China was expelled by the United Nations in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 and lost its memberships in all the international organizations related to UN.

The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

General John P. Jumper, U. S. Air Forces in Europe commander, escorts President William Jefferson Clinton upon his arrival to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, May 5, 1999.

Theodore went on to successfully represent presidential candidate George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore, and subsequently served as U. S. Solicitor General in the Bush administration.

Fort Leavenworth / Washington: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College.

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the U. S. to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

#** Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( 1851 – 1921 ), U. S. Attorney General married Ellen Channing Day

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

He said: " I wanted to call my company General, but there's so many Generals in the U. S .: General Electric, General Motors.

This led to alliances between Japanese calculator manufacturers and U. S. semiconductor companies: Canon Inc. with Texas Instruments, Hayakawa Electric ( later known as Sharp Corporation ) with North-American Rockwell Microelectronics, Busicom with Mostek and Intel, and General Instrument with Sanyo.