Word: commandant
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...activity was calculated to project an image of a Chief Executive who was firmly in command and to diminish whatever doubts might still linger over the transition from Richard Nixon to a new and untested President. Much as Lyndon Johnson did in the weeks after John F. Kennedy's assassination, Ford was reaching out for a national consensus, a show of bipartisan support-and he was doing it with a sure touch. Declared Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Ford's first days as President: "It's been excellent. I don't think he's missed...
While NATO will certainly survive the departure of Greece, one of the weakest powers in the alliance, it will be hurt tactically-more so even than when Charles de Gaulle withdrew France from the integrated command in 1966. Unlike France, Greece is part of NATO's front line, bordering directly on Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Greece also controls, along with Turkey, the strategically important Aegean Sea, which is the Soviet navy's sole access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. "No question that Greece has been considered a key part of the common southern defense system," says...
Lost to NATO now are: the 120,000-man Greek army, equipped with modern American weapons; the 160 jet fighters of the Greek air force that were to provide more than 15% of the combat planes available to NATO'S southern command (Greece, Turkey, Italy and the U.S.); and the Greek navy's seven submarines and 13 destroyers and destroyer escorts that helped the U.S. Sixth Fleet in maintaining a balance in the eastern Mediterranean with the increasing Soviet naval presence. No longer will the movement of Greek troops be coordinated by NATO, nor will they participate...
...deputy commander of Würzburg and of various support units in an area covering nearly one-third of southern West Germany, Hopfenspirger is one of a growing number of women to step into important command assignments. Colonel Frances Weir, 47, issues orders to a mostly male outfit at the support battalion in Fort Jackson, S.C. Colonel Georgia Hill, 49, is head of the sprawling supply depot at Cameron Station...
Until a year ago, female officers could command only other members of the Women's Army Corps (the WAC). The Army, however, is now reassigning women permanently to previously all-male branches. Brigadier General Mildred C. Bailey, chief of the WAC, last month finished turning over all its personnel files to the women's new units. At the same time, the Army has reclassified 136,000 jobs, opening them to women. Thus there have recently been a myriad of female firsts on various bases: the first female parachute rigger, the first turbine-engine maintenance woman, the first female...