Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach has not worked. Partly because of the uncertainty over how long FEA will live (Congress authorized it for only two years), Sawhill has not been able to hire a second-in-command. Thus, he has been forced to play both Mr. Inside, running FEA, and Mr. Outside, testifying on Capitol Hill, and the agency has suffered from the division of his attention. On one occasion, the FEA created a loophole in pricing regulations that permitted oil companies to make bigger price increases than Sawhill intended to permit-and did not close it until more than two months after staffers...
...crusty, limited man who loved destruction and hated to take prisoners led to some predictions that he would stumble after the war. But he served with distinction in the Pentagon, Europe and Korea, and displayed sensitivity and tact in 1962 and 1963 when President Kennedy called on him to command federal troops during tense racial confrontations at Oxford, Miss., and Tuscaloosa and Birmingham...
Slowly but surely, Turkey, which already has about 40% of Cyprus, seems determined to nibble away at the remaining 60%. With no real opposition from the outgunned Greek Cypriot National Guard, Turkish forces last week advanced their lines another twelve miles to the southwest, taking command of Morphou Bay, the main exit point for the island's copper production...
...grievously ill? That recurrent question began circulating again in Rome after a visiting diplomat came away from a meeting with the Pope, worrying that his "sunken eyes presaged death within weeks." However, another recent visitor described the Pontiff, who turns 77 on Sept. 26, as "energetic and in full command." That assessment seemed to be bolstered by the Pope's appearance at last month's feast of the Assumption; he surefootedly negotiated the cobblestone streets near his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo to say Mass at a parish church. Rumors about Paul's health vary widely. Some...
...They were members of Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (E.L.I.M.), a dissident group that has been warring openly with the conservative hierarchy of the 2.8 million-member denomination. Tietjen's lament for the church underlined the fact that the Missouri Synod's conservative leadership is now firmly in command...