Word: command
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Columbia brought an Ivy mark of 0-4 into its match against the Crimson but the Lions were in command until victories by Rich Starr (177 pounds), Dave Scanlon(190 pounds), and heavyweight Tom Tripp wiped out the possibility of an upset. The Crimson's three bout rally at the finish of the match was a duplicate of the heroic performances pulled off by the trio in Harvard's 17-15 upset of Springfield last week...
...command not only slapped an embargo on news of Dewey Canyon, it also imposed an embargo on reporting the fact that an embargo had been imposed. In Washington only a handful of top policymakers knew what was up anyway. This time, there was none of the hour-by-hour agonizing at Camp David that contributed to the tense atmosphere in Washington during the Cambodian foray. Nixon, in fact, left for a long weekend at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands...
...response was remarkably temperate. About the angriest reaction came from Democratic Presidential Hopeful George McGovern, who blasted the Administration for imposing "the longest news blackout of the war."* Added he: "What a way to run a war! What a way to manage a free society!" The U.S. command in Saigon defended the embargo as essential to keeping the enemy guessing about allied intentions...
Abrams works in the huge headquarters building of MACV (Military Assistance Command, Viet Nam), next to Saigon's airport. He is at work at 7:30 a.m. seven days a week. In his map-lined office he dips regularly into one of the cigar humidors that, surround him. He confers three or four times a week with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, three times with General Cao Van Vien, the South Vietnamese chief of staff, and even more often with his intelligence officer. Whenever he can, he choppers to the field and once a month flies to Bangkok to visit...
...headlights must be dimmed or even doused for much of the trip because of marauding aircraft. At the end of his run, a driver unloads his cargo at a transfer point and heads back for more. Each section, called a binh tram (logistical support) system, is under a separate command. "The man who runs a binh tram system is Mr. Greyhound," says a U.S. Air Force officer. "He says 'Send them down' or 'Hold them.' " Shipping time for any one load: about two months...