Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spanish Premier Carlos Arias Navarro huddled with his Cabinet three times last week. After Friday's session, the government announced a shake-up of the army command, naming a tough new head of the Guardia Civil and new commanders for four military regions, including Madrid. The next day, the government released eleven Basques being held for terrorist acts. Four Basques remain in jail, awaiting sentences for cop-killing; under a law enacted last August, a mandatory death sentence faces anyone convicted of killing a policeman...
...effort to get the Emperor to join the fight against the commercial slaughter of whales.) As the plane drew nearer, the anxious Secret Service was told by air controllers that the pilot was carefully sticking to a legal route down nearby K Street. Even so, agents radioed the command to have the pilot veer...
...steelmen "s.o.b.s," and in fact it was he who leaked the story. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, an evacuation plan was devised for key people in Washington. It meant that if the crisis grew, the select group would be taken by helicopter to the special command post under a Virginia mountain. Kennedy pondered a short while, then confided to some of his closest aides that if a nuclear attack came, he was not about to leave the White House or his family. He might go up in the fireball, but his pride would be intact; and the nation...
Deputy Chief of Detectives William J. Averill, 62, arrives at 9:30 to command the operation and deploys hundreds of officers, many of them volunteers, who are gathering from all over the city after hearing the news. Sergeant Reddy, who ran the precinct's neighborhood police team, was popular in the tough, polyglot area of Puerto Ricans, blacks, whites and Chinese. The police get cooperation. By 4 a.m., when Averill returns to his office, he has concluded that he is looking for two Hispanic males in their 20s. One, not the killer, is called Frankie, last name unknown...
...those who like the blues, but still relish an etheral atmosphere, Saturday the Orpheum offers James Montgomery and the Gentle Giant. Gentle Giant, a group from England cut in the King Crimson mold, seems to command your attention for about twenty minutes; problem is, they tend to become so predictable that you know where the band's going before they...