Word: command
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Nixon is still, after all, the world's top statesman, in command of the most powerful military machine (which the Soviets still respect) and the most productive economic apparatus (which they want to duplicate). And Nixon last week was in his special arena. He is awfully good at summitry. He was across the table from another tough leader who has knocked his way to the top and knows the destructibility of politicians and their dreams. The press and the public were far enough away not to bother, and Nixon could spar with Brezhnev even while signaling that...
Those who heard Dean last week in the private sessions were impressed by his command of specifics and his candor. Testing him, Senator Baker asked pointed questions about three incidents in which Baker had dealt with the White House-and found Dean's version of the events precise and accurate. Whether he stands up equally well under the long ordeal of his televised testimony this week remains a question of profound significance to the whole course of the Watergate investigation-and to the political future of Richard Nixon...
...Rhodesian army has set up scores of its barbed-wire-encrusted bunkers to protect vulnerable airstrips and command posts, and light planes scour the rough terrain to search for suspicious activity. To make their search easier, the government is evicting 15,000 resident blacks and creating a ten-mile-wide cordon sanitaire along Rhodesia's 800-mile frontier with the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, the springboard for most of the guerrilla activity...
Saigon statisticians claimed that at least 821 enemy troops had been killed in action in the few days since Cease-Fire II had been signed, while ARVN losses totaled 218. By the Saigon command's own admission, however, most contacts in recent days have amounted only to mortar and rocket exchanges. What fighting has occurred has been limited to the Chuong Thien province in the Mekong Delta and Kontum in the Central Highlands. In the northerly I Corps area, virtually no combat has been reported. Said a Western diplomat: "The combat statistics show that incidents are only a fifth...
...Pronounced "Eye Corps." The U.S. military command divided South Viet Nam into four military regions, which were designated by Roman numerals. In G.I. jargon, the I came to be pronounced as the ninth letter of the alphabet...