Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rested (not to mention 10 lbs. lighter), Brezhnev discussed European security, trade and the Middle East with Wilson. Although his voice seemed a bit more slurred than usual, he made a 20-rninute speech before Soviet television cameras, giving the impression of a man who was fit and in command-at least as far as anyone could...
...some political observers, the real surprise was not that Heath went down to defeat but that he had stayed in command of the party as long as he had. His general-election record was poor (one win and three losses to Harold Wilson's Labor!tes). He also had a largely well-deserved reputation for refusing to take anyone's counsel but his own, as well as an unendearing public image as a prickly, self-righteous schoolmaster. Paradoxically, some of the handicaps that led to his downfall had helped keep him in power. After ten years of Heath...
...refusing to be intimidated, twenty years later. Vito returns to draw an ugly line down the old man's belly with a stiletto. He has succumbed to the revenge ethic. The final five minutes of the film show three of Michael's closest associates dying by his command--his brother, his greatest rival partner and his oldest family retainer. But Vito's revenge was satisfying and to an extent just: Michael's leaves him empty and alone in his chateau on Lake Tahoe, not much more than a pawn in a long cycle of violence, that he will have...
...struggles for power that followed it. There had been no Chief of Staff since 1971 and no political commissar since 1973. Now, with Teng and Chang taking up army responsibilities-joining Yeh Chien-ying, who was named Defense Minister at the National People's Congress last month-the command structure of China's 2.5 million-man army is virtually complete...
...salaries as well as the number of judges. But recession-laden legislators are likely to turn a deaf ear. It may be that the judges' only recourse is a semi-serious ploy proposed by one of them during last week's meeting. Citing the Constitution's command that a judge's pay "shall not be diminished," he suggested suing, arguing that failure to give cost-of-living increases amounted to such a cut. One problem with the suit, of course, would be finding a federal judge whose interest in the case would not force...