Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem-solving ability will be sorely needed. The change of command comes just as the Joint Chiefs enter a time of trial for themselves and their services. The J.C.S. are a natural focus for the present unpopularity of the U.S. military establishment and, like the services they represent, are somewhat demoralized and defensive at the moment. They are also on the cutting edge of the military's financial problems. The defense budget for fiscal 1971 has already been slashed by $7 billion; the budget for fiscal '72 is expected to be cut by at least $2 billion more...
Last week, to take command, Arthur Goldberg came over the horizon blowing a trumpet muted with the first note that he ventured. The owlish, dignified former Supreme Court Justice, hoping that he could summon broad Democratic support to challenge Nelson Rockefeller, began his crusade instead with only a narrow primary victory. He defeated Howard Samuels, an attractive upstate plastics millionaire who has been a frequent office seeker, by 45,000 votes in an election for which only 26% of the state's enrolled Democrats roused themselves to vote. Samuels campaigned strenuously in person and spent lavishly on television. After...
...exodus, under the command of Lieut. General Michael S. Davison, was proceeding in textbook style. The remaining 12,000 U.S. fighting men in Cambodia were exiting in about equal numbers by helicopter, armored vehicle and foot. They were under strict orders to evacuate all their equipment in order to prevent the Communists from using any of it if and when they try to reoccupy the gutted sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. Davison ordered the emplacement of numerous fire-support bases just inside South Viet Nam to shield the last men coming out with an umbrella of artillery shells...
...treasury's $265 million deficit into a $250 million surplus. Mobutu's one-man rule has worked so well, in fact, that many foreign diplomats, mindful that he suffered a mild heart attack earlier this year, worry about what would happen if he were no longer in command. They know full well that the Congo's new-found tranquillity could disappear quickly in a moment of national crisis. Only three weeks ago, a small band of Simba rebels seized the town of Kalemin, formerly Albertville, on Lake Tanganyika. The Simbas held the town for 24 hours before...
...Velasco's nephew, the generals refused to accept the President's resignation. Instead, they urged him to accept the backing of the barracks and rule with dictatorial powers. Velasco was agreeable. Three days later, he spoke to the country on the radio: "I assume command of the republic...