Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army command in West Germany, with almost 200,000 troops, is the largest non-German force left in the country. With East and West talking détente, the Army has little to do but keep house. Recently, however, it has been engaged in another activity: spying on civilians...
...early morning in Houston when the first hint of trouble came. Watching his instrument console, an engineer on duty in Mission Control noticed an unusual temperature drop in the fuel system of one of the clusters of little steering rockets on the Apollo command and service modules (CSM) that had carried the second Skylab crew to their orbital home on July 28 and is needed to ferry them back to earth. About fifteen minutes later, the astronauts themselves became aware of the problem when an alarm went off aboard the space station, jolting them out of their sleep. Later...
Then came confirmation: "Amsterdam Control, we are in full command of Flight 404. I am El Kassar. From now on, the following call sign should be used: Mount Carmel. We are the occupying forces of the Palestinian Liberation Movement. We are fighting for our sons and brothers in the prisons of the fascist state of Israel. Is that clear to you, Amsterdam Control?" Replied De Haas very calmly: "Roger, Mount Carmel, Roger...
...cabled Sadat saying that he had resigned as of July 11 as chairman of Libya's ruling Revolutionary Command Council-in effect disclaiming all responsibility for the marchers. His action did not necessarily mean Gaddafi was out as Libya's ruler, since he has offered his resignation several times in the past, but the council has refused to let him quit...
...launch itself will require unusual precision. If the astronauts are to rendezvous in their Apollo command ship with the 230-nautical-mile-high laboratory within the prescribed five revolutions of the earth, their lift-off cannot be delayed more than ten minutes. Otherwise, the blast-off will have to be postponed until the next day. But by then the launch "window" will, have shrunk to a mere two minutes, and it will take the astronauts two more revolutions to reach the laboratory...