Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important. To reduce the risk of misunderstanding between tower and cockpit, a controller is forbidden to tell a pilot to "hold for takeoff." The mere mention of "takeoff" could trigger a response in the mind of the pilot and cause him to throw the throttles open prematurely. The correct command: "Taxi into position and hold...
Despite the clear signals of the bloody incident at Muzaffarnagar, the government ignored the possibility that the program was in trouble. When one citizen of the city complained to D.K. Barooah, president of the Congress Party, Barooah told him to talk to the "high command." As instructed, the citizen of Muzaffarnagar telephoned Mrs. Gandhi's office and reached her private secretary, R.K. Dhawan. Informed that the call was coming from Muzaffarnagar, he hung...
...effort to free the hostages was in the hands of the FBI and local police, under the command of Police Chief Maurice Cullinane. Attorney General Griffin Bell and FBI Director Clarence Kelley were kept briefed, but the night-and-day negotiations were conducted by seven men: Cullinane; Deputy Police Chief Robert Rabe; Nick Stames, chief of the FBI's Washington field office; FBI Agent Pat Mullany, the bureau's most skilled hostage negotiator; plus three diplomats whose admirable intervention may well have brought about the salvation of the hostages. It was, at first glance, an unlikely trio...
Ambassador Ghorbal was the first to volunteer help. Learning that Egyptians were among the hostages at the Islamic Center, he called the State Department and when asked, agreed to talk to Khaalis on the phone from the police command center. Ghorbal then called Yaqub-Khan, who joined him, and left a message for Zahedi, who at the moment was on a Concorde returning to Washington from Paris...
...thought keeps nagging that this command decision is based on aesthetic rather than scientific, moral or political considerations. It may be that the agent charitably wishes to spare the world more banal dialogue. Or it may be that he wishes to spare his colleagues on the train any further embarrassment. Surely he, like the viewer, must wonder why Richard Harris, as the only doctor aboard, has been encouraged to dye his hair white-blond. And why Sophia Loren, as Harris' estranged wife, is working in a gray make up that makes her look plagued even before the dis ease breaks...