Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newsmen, who were dressed in Army uniforms, Tojo immediately told his wife to flee out the back door. After exhaling another Hai, she did. Then Tojo, perhaps to save his honor, tried to commit suicide with a revolver but he only managed to wound himself. Mrs. Tojo, disobeying the command of her husband for the first time in her life, crept back to the house to watch as American MPs came to carry her bleeding husband away...
Three-Sided Strategy. A Communist document, captured several months ago but released only last week by the U.S. command in Saigon, indicates that the enemy plans to scale down its battlefield activities and place "particular importance" on low-budget guerrilla warfare. According to Mao's classic terms, the Vietnamese Communists are at least partially reverting from Stage 2 (main-force military combat) to Stage 1 (grassroots organization). The 26-page document, known as COSVN (Central Office for South Viet Nam) Resolution 14, reflects Giap's thinking. Henceforth, says the resolution, Communist cadres are to organize and prepare...
...process, the Communists have gained access to large supplies of rice, fish and cattle, and last week's attacks on Kompong Thom and Skoun, two strategic cities north of Phnom-Penh, showed that they are intent on securing continued control of these new havens. They also now command a riverine supply route on the Mekong that stretches all the way through Laos and Cambodia to the South Vietnamese border...
...huge skyscrapers was finished because they are so costly. But Sears executives expect to gain profit as well as prestige from their building. About two-fifths of its 4,400,000 sq. ft. of office space will be rented out to other tenants. Extremely high floors command premium prices, and Sears plans to charge rents of $8.50 to $12 per sq. ft. The new building will cost more than $100 million, but even in these times of tight money the company can afford it, Sears intends to finance the entire cost out of its accumulated earnings...
Both, for instance, make a point of the Navy's decision to classify the intelligence-gathering cruise as a "minimal risk" operation. But Armbrister traces the planning process through the chain of command in Hawaii and Washington. At the Honolulu headquarters, it was a young ensign in the intelligence section who passed on the low-risk appraisal; an experienced specialist in North Korean affairs had been shunted aside for opaque reasons. In Washington, representatives of the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, White House and National Security Agency approved Pueblo's excursion. One ranking NSA official warned that the North...