Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intrigued by "God's chain of command" as assumed by the Rev. William William Gothard [May 20]. God to husband to wife to child. Interesting,but why would She do a thing like that...
...major elements that constitute power in Syria: the army, the Baath Party Organization, Parliament and the Council of Ministers. Routine matters are handled by the Cabinet and the 186-man Parliament, while all issues affecting Syria's security are referred to the 21-member Baath Party High Command, acting as a court of appeal. But it is the army that wields the final sanction, and during the disengagement discussions with Israel, Assad made sure that his Defense Minister, Major General Mustafa Tlas, and other senior military officers were intimately involved...
...many non-union printers are either workers who lack enough skill to qualify for a union, or workers who have so much skill that they can command better wages in the open market than the union can negotiate. So, it seems difficult to compare wages for printers of fairly uniform skill levels to wages of non-union printers whose wages and skill levels range from one extreme to the other...
Died. Donald Crisp, 93, Hollywood character actor for more than half a century; in Van Nuys, Calif. Crisp made his movie debut in 1906 doing muta-scopes (still pictures flipped before the viewer's eye). Second in command to Director D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation (1915), Crisp directed the film's battle scenes and played the part of General Grant. In 1941 he earned an Oscar for portraying Mr. Morgan in How Green Was My Valley, his 135th film, then went on to make some 300 more movies. He appeared as Elizabeth Taylor...