Word: commandant
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...coup. Cambodia has a one-party Senate, National Assembly and Cabinet; the Premier is Long Boret. Although partially paralyzed from a 1971 stroke, Lon Nol wields nearly absolute power as head of the government. The 80,000 combat and 145,000 support troops under Phnom-Penh's command control approximately 25% of the country's land, about 60% of its 7.6 million inhabitants and all but two of its major cities and towns...
...referring to the latest outbreak of fighting in South Viet Nam, which the U.S. Defense Department, at least at first, did not seem to regard as particularly serious. The South Vietnamese military, understandably, took a grimmer view. For the first time in a year, the ARVN high command revived (at 3:30 p.m.) the once-famed "5 o'clock follies"-the daily military briefing for the 60-odd foreign newsmen presently in Saigon...
...sighted, as inventive, as amusing, as self-interested, as generous, and, above all, as capable of defining themselves in terms of or against a social system over which they have no direct control, as any other human beings. There are lives of inspiration here as well as biographies which command less respect. Large numbers of women went into foreign mission work, because it was socially acceptable. Women were among the first critics of the U.S. government's American Indian policy. They were Socialists. They were Zionists. And they were capable of deceit and hypocrisy, as in the 1890 s when...
...vast flow of "White House photographs," selected to show a thoughtful and very human President in firm command of the nation's problems, floods the media. At the same time, access to the man is blocked by the White House Press Office...
Died. Otto Winzer, 72, former East German Foreign Minister; of heart disease; in East Berlin. A Communist from his youth, Winzer was a close aide of the late East German leader Walter Ulbricht. When Winzer took command of the foreign ministry in 1965, only the Communist bloc and a few Third World countries recognized East Germany as a sovereign state. Winzer shepherded his country into the international arena, and in 1973 East Germany (along with her neighbor to the west) was admitted to the United Nations. Poor health forced Winzer's resignation in January...