Word: command
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...accepted the need to change, Connally was ready. At the fateful Camp David meeting in mid-August, he was the only man present to have a full series of proposals, contained in position papers that had been worked out by his staff. Second only to Nixon, Connally was in command at Camp David. The intellectual backdrop for the new program had been supplied by Burns; the operational details of the freeze came from Connally...
That spectacle points up a growing Soviet threat to the northern flank of NATO, which extends from Norway's North Cape to West Germany's Baltic coast (see map). NATO's northern command is outnumbered by the Soviets four-to-one on the ground, seven-to-one in aircraft and six-to-one in ships in the north. "The Russians are very busy displaying raw military power on the northern flank," reports TIME Correspondent John Mulliken, who recently toured the region. "It is a significant example of how the Soviets intend to use the pressure of their...
...than 65 of them nuclear-powered (but not counting sizable forces in the Baltic, plus the East German and Polish navies). By contrast, the entire U.S. Atlantic Fleet has 358 ships, of which 40 to 50 are assigned to the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Since 1968, the U.S. command has been cut back 25% in ships and 19% in men, and it is scheduled to lose another ten ships by next summer. Says Norway's Rear Admiral Magne Braadland: "The threat to the U.S. is not coming from Viet Nam and not from Central Europe either...
...resigned indifference? Spokesmen for the militantly anti-Thieu, antiwar An Quang Buddhists charged that Thieu had "killed democracy and given birth to dictatorship." Supporters of Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky urged the Vietnamese "not to recognize the faked results." But never before had Thieu seemed more firmly in command. Before the election, when Ky's people were raising ominous visions of post-election catastrophe, the CIA estimated that there was a 40% chance of a post-election coup attempt; now the estimate is closer to zero...
...realize that football and soccer command most of the sports page space during the fall. But I would hope that a competent and interested reporter might be found to cover the activities of the sailing teams. Sincerely, Michael S. Horn Coach, Harvard-Radcliffe Sailing...