Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voted overwhelmingly to request the Security Council to reconsider North and South Viet Nam's applications for U.N. membership-vetoed last summer by the U.S., which has opposed admitting Saigon and Hanoi unless South Korea is also admitted. On the agenda are also the status of the U.N. Command in South Korea and the Cyprus issue -potentially controversial items. But the main focus of the session will be the proper relationship-and responsibilities-of the rich and poor nations, and there an apparently constructive dialogue has already begun...
...tranquil fog blanketed soldier's Field yesterday and an eery quietude engulfed Joe Restic's last-season practice. But through the fog, the clouded question of who would command Restic's troops in their opening-game battle with Holy Cross was finally resolved...
...These three broke our back," McCurdy said last night. "Northeastern didn't really assume command until the last mile, but that triple really hurt...
...downtown Washington. The White House informed the Church committee, which this week will hold public hearings on the matter. Church hopes to discover whether the toxins were ever used in CIA assassination plots. He is even more concerned with the fact that the agency violated Nixon's command. The episode, he said, points up a "looseness of command and control within the CIA." According to a source close to Church's panel, some low-ranking CIA official unknown to the agency's chiefs had made the decision to retain small quantities of the toxins...
Wind of the incident wafted back to his superiors in Norfolk, and Stevenson was relieved of his command "for cause." His kiss on Cat's cheek, said the Navy brass, "tended to demean the position" he held. Stevenson had even, huffed the Navy, taken up a collection for the dancer from the crew, and "that was in bad taste...