Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second largest group in the P.L.O. after Fatah, withdrew from the P.L.O. executive council after bitterly attacking the moderate leadership of Yasser Arafat (see box). Another fedayeen group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O. central council, which functions as a kind of parliamentary committee, was alarmed enough to convene an emergency meeting in Damascus last week; it formed a committee to try to persuade P.F.L.P. Leader George Habash to reconsider...
...last line of Something Happened is in a way very interesting: "Everyone seems pleased with the way I've taken command." And that's very interesting because it seems--if you know the character--he never feels secure in any situation. He has taken command, he's gotten promoted, he's doing very well. But his use of the word "seems" rather than "is pleased"" is an indication that he's insecure, he's not sure just how pleased everyone...
Further, the defense should have been permitted to call such higher-ups as then Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to bolster the argument that undue command influence had affected the trial. And the defense should have been given access to a confidential House Armed Services Committee report on My Lai. Judge Elliott cited Watergate and ruled that "the Supreme Court in deciding the Nixon [tapes] case also decided the Calley case...
...worrisome future. Dominated for a quarter of a century by the ideas and personality of one man, China has yet to go through the experience, always wrenching in a one-party state, of a transferal of supreme state power. But Mao Tse-tung is now 81; although apparently in command of his party, he is physically very feeble. His much heralded meetings with foreign dignitaries, held usually in his book-lined study, are always spur-of-the-moment affairs, apparently because his doctors never know when he will be strong enough to take the strain of a visit. Last week...
...more than one "medium." In the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review] University of Wisconsin Communication Professor George Bailey deplores the persistent and growing tendency to use the word with singular incorrectness. Echoing a TIME Essay (June 7, 1971), he attributes that offense to something more ominous than doubtful command of the mother tongue. "People who write or say 'The media is against Nixon' or 'The media exploits children' actually conceptualize the media as a singular, unitary entity - a force, often sinister...