Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regular Thursday tabulation, the U.S. command in Saigon announced last week that American casualties-five killed in action and four wounded-were at the lowest combined count since early in 1965. For months American losses in Viet Nam have been declining in an almost steady curve...
Throughout the fearful day, New Jersey officials and inmates alike gradually abandoned hard-line demands in favor of safety and compromise. Shortly after the rebellion started, New Jersey Governor William Cahill appeared, to direct negotiations from a nearby command post. The prisoners were not as well organized as the Attica inmates; they were also less militant and inflexible in their demands. Both sides, it seems, remembered Attica...
...four-state manhunt was immediately launched. FBI agents, along with more than 30 officers of the Clark and Cowlitz county sheriff's departments, set up a command post and fanned out through a thickly timbered corridor 15 miles long and ten miles wide near the towns of Longview and Ariel in southwest Washington. The area is densely forested enough to present a serious hazard to the jumper if he did not make the clearing. Said Undersheriff Tom McDowell: "We're either looking for a parachute or a hole in the ground...
...like beginning a burglary by deliberately knocking over the garbage cans. As a formidable force of South Vietnamese Rangers, armored, infantry and artillery units assembled at a base in Tay Ninh province northwest of Saigon, Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh's command post issued almost daily bulletins about what targets the ARVN force would hit across the border in Cambodia. Communist staging areas near the town of Snuol were mentioned, as were the Mimot plantation near Krek, the vast Chup plantation, the town of Suong and the enemy-infested banks of the Chhlong River...
Glamour stocks usually command premium, prices-and Playboy Enterprises could be described as bulging with glamour. Apparently it is not quite the right kind of allure for Wall Street. Since 1.1 million shares in the magazine and key-club empire were offered to the public earlier this month, the price has dropped from $23.50 to $15.63. Playboy Panjandrum Hugh Hefner's shares, worth $158 million at the offering price, have fallen about $53 million in value in a little more than two weeks...