Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur arrived soon after at Ge'ula Street to take command. Meanwhile, the Arab commandos chose Kochava Levi, who had picked up Arabic in the streets, to translate to Israeli officials their demand for a plane to take the hostages and ten Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to Damascus or Paris. Bandaging the wounded with ripped sheets and shouting the guerrillas' terms down from a fourth-floor window, Kochava emerged as the unexpected heroine of the drama...
...Harvard"--a problem that did not trouble the People's Fourth Choice, Richardson. Still soggy from his bold and anguished desertion of the sinking ship of the Nixon administration, Richardson scarcely alluded to his political prospects or career: the modest former secretary of defense omitted mention even of his command over the last year of the American bombing of Cambodia. Instead, the ex. Poonster discussed his admiration for Doonesbury as class arator Daniel A. Swanson '74 berated "the men who planned this friminal war," and informed his listeners that "a lack of imagination causes cruelty." Largely ignoring a small...
...critical problem that would not be solved by the receipt of more military-aid funds from the U.S. Cambodian forces around the capital are already spread dangerously thin, the result of the nearly total destruction of a division in that area during this year's fighting. The high command feels it should not risk taking any soldiers away from Phnom-Penh; yet the river must be reopened to convoys, or the capital will eventually be lost anyway...
...middle-class family. He joined the Bolshevik Party a few months before the 1917 revolution and advanced quickly in a succession of jobs: member of the secret police, no-nonsense manager of a key Soviet electrical-equipment factory and mayor of Moscow. Although he had no battlefield command experience, Bulganin became a general during World War II. Actually, he was a political commissar, charged with the task of keeping Red Army officers loyal to the Kremlin's leaders. In 1947 Stalin promoted Bulganin to Marshal of the Soviet Union and also named him Deputy Premier-a post he held...
...faking worldliness like a high school girl boasting about lost virginity. In fact, MacLaine's life far exceeds the fantasies that the fictional Isadora plays out hi Fear of Flying. At 40, MacLaine is an enviable example of the liberated quadraphonic life: a film star who could command $800,000 a movie, a wife and mother who appears to operate a successful open marriage, and a citizen who served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and one of George McGovern's most energetic campaigners...