Word: command
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Humphrey seems poised to announce some time around the first of the year. Muskie remains overall the dominating force in the race, quietly commanding the party's center. Richard Nixon, from the comfortable vantage of incumbency, can watch the Democratic fighting with a certain equanimity. There is no White House consensus, however, on the potential opposition. Some in Nixon's high command think that Muskie would be the toushest man for the President to beat, believing that Muskie would unite most elements of the nation's majority party with the smallest flake-off at either end. Muskie could bring...
Specifically, members of the Democratic Black Caucus repeatedly heard that black troops: 1) receive a disproportionately low number of honorable discharges and are more widely subject to pretrial confinement; 2) suffer harassment and intimidation for wearing Afro hair styles or Black Power symbols; 3) fail to win key command positions over less qualified whites; 4) get the most dangerous combat jobs in Viet Nam if they show signs of black militancy; and 5) often receive indifferent medical attention there while in the field...
Butting up against the heel of the Appalachian Mountains near Anniston, Ala., Fort McClellan appears to be the most placid of military bases. It is pastorally appointed with sweeping greensward, tall stands of shortleaf pine and pleasing arrangements of whitewashed command buildings fronted by old-fashioned verandas. It is a small post, with slightly more than 5,000 people. But McClellan is unique in that 2,000 of those are WACs; it is the largest WAC base in the world. What is more, 20% of the WACs are black. More than any other single factor, that probably accounts...
...have concluded that the arbitrary preference established in favor of males by the Idaho code cannot stand in the face of the Fourteenth Amendment's command that no state can deny thee equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction," Chief Justice Warren Burger said yesterday. He also said that legislatures may treat women differently only when the purpose of such treatment is reasonable...
...literary logistics involved are, to put it mildly, colossal. Winds begins in the Washington of 1939, in the mind of Commander "Pug" Henry, an upright WASP of the old school who is about to be posted to Berlin as the new U.S. naval attaché. The book ends a few days after Pearl Harbor. By that time Henry has served Franklin Roosevelt as a special observer in Germany, Britain and Russia, acquired a pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law who is still trying to escape from Nazi Europe, refused to give his foolish, flighty wife a divorce, and seen his first...