Word: commandant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first time in his life, Kissinger descended into a 90-ft. silo and gazed at a 75,000-lb. Minuteman III, the newest and largest American ICBM (range: 7,000 miles). After watching a simulated firing in an underground command center, Kissinger emerged and remarked that the world of payloads, throw weight and delivery systems had been largely an "abstraction" to him up until now. Coming face to face with the real thing had clearly been a sobering experience for the onetime Harvard professor who made his reputation with a book entitled Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy...
...company of Portuguese troops led by their field commander has deserted to join Frelimo. The troops, based at Macossa, about 80 km from Vila de Gouveia, Central Mozambique, have drawn up a manifesto which has been sent to the Portuguese High Command in Nampula. The Manifesto tells High Command that the company has joined Frelimo as "the only valid party in this country...
...provided $5,400 to student antigovernment agitators. Actually, his prosecution probably stemmed as much from his barbed poetry as from his relatively innocuous actions against Park. A typical portion of his Five Bandits describes ministers and vice ministers: "They waddle from obesity, and sediment seeps from every pore/ ... They command the national defense/ with their golf club in their left hand/ While fondling the breasts of their mistresses with their right...
...line. Even liberal economists are generally reluctant to go back to comprehensive wage-price controls. But in a highly inflationary climate, the Government must try to counter the temptation for unions and companies to push for the biggest increases that their raw economic power would temporarily command. Indeed, many economists fear that high wage demands are about to replace shortages as the prime inflationary force in the economy-and the Government cannot persuade labor leaders to moderate them unless it makes a conscientious effort to restrain business too. The President, as wielder of the nation's largest jawbone, should...
Thomas' proposal is more difficult than it sounds, for Myxotricha is so complex that he believes that no matter how much information was amassed, any fair-minded computer would request more data before it obeyed the command to shoot...