Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protecting the headquarters from townspeople who were pelting the building with cobblestones. Angered by onesided reporting in the Communist-controlled press, demonstrators in Rio Maior destroyed a truckload of newspapers and strung a banner across a building in the town's main square proclaiming PEOPLE OF RIO MAIOR COMMAND THE END OF FALSE INFORMATION...
...sought a small farm to work on near the new capital because his doctors believed he was endangering his life by lack of exercise. He had no available cash, but offered in exchange 3,000 of his western acres. The exchange was not considered adequate. At Washington's command, his need was never made known to anyone in authority. Nor was it ever satisfied. Nixon, according to the General Accounting Office, spruced up his homes at Key Biscayne and San Clemente with $1.3 million in tax money...
...goods at commissaries, where prices are often lower than in the U.S. Fresh oysters and other Stateside delicacies are flown into the area's genteel clubs and restaurants. It is a world of Southern comfort, and Southern mores. The chief beneficiary of all this is the U.S. Southern Command headquartered in the zone. The Command is ostensibly for defense of the entire Latin American region, but one of its specific tasks is defending the canal itself. Panamanians, including General Torrijos, see it more as a huge occupying army...
VANCE D. BRAND, 44, the blond, boyish-looking command-module pilot, is the quiet man of the American crew. A former Marine Corps and civilian test pilot with a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado, he joined the astronaut corps in 1966, and was a back-up crewman for several moon flights and Skylab. One of the pluses of being involved in the joint flight, says Brand, is "having an opportunity to see how another culture operates." Among ins discoveries: spacemen are far better known in Russia than in the U.S. Not much interested in publicity inmself...
...inflation?and risk recession?by curtailing spending and restricting the growth of money supply. Many economists indeed blame all post-World War II recessions on overly zealous anti-inflationary policy. But that criticism obscures a vital point. In a society that operates by private decision-making rather than central command, governments must make difficult judgments on the exact mix of tax, spending and money-supply policies needed to nudge businessmen and consumers into the "right" decisions on how much to buy, build and borrow. Inevitably, the fallible humans who run treasury ministries and central banks will make some wrong judgments?...