Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employees and assorted Greater Boston radicals was in the process of voting for a strike at the University. As the meeting- held in Sanders Theatre. Memorial Hall, and Lowell Lec, and linked by a halting PA system- wound on its way, couriers scurried back to the Harvard Administration's command post in Grays Hall with reports, dismal ones. SDS (or NAC) was planning (had already begun) a march to burn down Shannon Hall (or the Center for International Affairs.) The command post, and most of the university braced itself for a return to April...
...could permit a speedup in U.S. withdrawal plans; instead of pulling out 150,000 troops by next spring, as President Nixon announced in April, the U.S. might bring home as many as 195,000. But the fact is that Vietnamization is six months behind in some respects. A high-command reorganization that was supposed to root out the remaining corrupt, incompetent or lazy generals has been delayed indefinitely. ARVN's lack of helicopters and pilots has slowed development of truly independent ARVN strike forces. And even at 950,000 men, ARVN is 150,000 men below strength, according...
...standing 5 ft. 4 in., Tri cuts a figure that is every bit as dashing as his style of command. In addition to his trademark camouflage jungle suit, Tri's combat regalia usually include a black three-starred baseball cap, a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson .38 in a shoulder holster, a leather-covered briar pipe, and a swagger stick carried under the arm. "I use it to spank the Viet Cong," Tri says with a wide grin...
...bright officer whose unusual nerve has produced some extraordinary exploits both on and off the field. The grandson of a Vietnamese mandarin and son of a wealthy landowner, Tri joined the French army in 1947 and received part of his cadet training in Hanoi. Since he won his first command as a young airborne officer, he has survived three assassination attempts, resulting in his conviction that he is a baraka-a French barracks term for one who enjoys immunity from death on the battlefield...
Cambodia and related events are on everyone's mind tonight-including those men who are hidden away somewhere in an elusive secret-command headquarters that, search though we may, we haven't been able to find. Yes, somewhere in the jungle labyrinth of Manhattan Island there is a secret nerve center where, every Sunday afternoon, an enormously powerful group of men gather to decide what the "Eastern Establishment Media" line for the coming week will be. A week or so ago, it was "Desperate Gamble," then last week it was "Crisis of Leadership." [This is] "Isolation...