Word: command
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breaking the Tet truce. Within 24 hours they hit 36 of 44 provincial capitals and overran almost all of the former colonial capital of Hue. Communist shock troops penetrated the heart of Saigon to attack the U.S. embassy and presidential palace. They drove General William Westmoreland into a windowless command bunker. "What the hell is going on?" Walter Cronkite wondered aloud as he prepared the evening's newscast. "I thought we were winning this...
...weeks after being surrounded at Khe Sanh, a redoubt in the chilly, wet South Vietnamese highlands. The heroism under heavy fire reminded many of the French troops who surrendered in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. But the Marines did not surrender. In March, Westmoreland was replaced as U.S. commander in South Viet Nam by General Creighton Abrams. President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. In the same month, whispers spread of a horrifying massacre of civilians carried out by U.S. troops at a hamlet called My Lai. In May, North Vietnamese representatives landed in Paris to start...
...least 17 people were killed, said Lt. Col. George Peck, a spokesman at Strategic Air Command Headquarters at Omaha...
...aircraft accident is bad, but the fact that there are as many fatalities makes [this crash] a particularly terrible one," said Maj. Dennis Pierson at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha...
...power. "Who do I give this to?" he asked quietly. He held up his authentication card for the launching of nuclear missiles, the card that must be inserted into the "football" toted with tender care by an ever present military assistant to certify the command to strike at an enemy. Reagan had dutifully carried the card for eight years. Its unimportance at his parting was perhaps the most powerful statement of this singular leader's legacy. The world moves toward peace, and the paraphernalia of nuclear command, which once held the world in its thrall, is almost an afterthought...