Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overthrow of Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios were bad enough for NATO, as it watched the deterioration of relations between two of its members, Greece and Turkey. But the alliance received a shock with Greece's withdrawal last week of its military forces from NATO'S integrated command. Greece's departure left a hole in NATO's southeast defenses against the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact...
...East Room of the White House, placed his hand upon his eldest son's Bible, and repeated the presidential oath "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." By the time the 37th President of the U.S. arrived at the Pacific, the 38th President had taken command of a new Administration...
...second-in-command, Nixon often served as Ike's emissary at home and abroad, tending to G.O.P. matters and visiting nearly threescore foreign countries; on one such trip, Nixon was in real danger when a Communist-led mob in Caracas besieged his car, smashed its windows and covered him with spittle. When Ike was felled by a heart attack...
...never admired him more. How he can take all of this I don't know, but you can be with him and never know anything is wrong. He's like a general who has lost the war but still stands at the command post, directing the troops...
Only three were acquitted by the court-martial, which consisted of seven air force officers. The sentences will be reviewed by the chief of the air force combat command, General José Berdichewsky, and finally by Pinochet; either man could reduce them...