Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which has been sky-rocketing throughout the last four years, will get worse, not better, and the point has now been reached where the standard of living is falling in Britain. Given that the Tories could not resort to their pre-election handout budget, the only way they could command support was to make the election into a battle about authority, the safety of Britain, and the survival of democracy...
...decorated with antiques from the fabled San Simeon mansion of Patricia's grandfather William Randolph Hearst, were filled with agonized friends and family. Among them were Patricia's four sisters and her fiance Stephen Weed, 26, who had been badly beaten by the kidnapers. FBI agents set up a command center in the library, which was crammed with six telephones on the chance that Patty's captors might call. Throughout the week Randolph and Catherine Hearst?putting up a remarkably courageous front despite their fears?stepped before TV cameras to provide bits of news...
Behind Cornell, Penn and Princeton each have ten points, but the Quakers are 5-5, while the Tigers are 5-6. Yale is now 3-6 in the league, and Brown is in command of the cellar with a 2-8 slate...
...them-Ali Murtopo and Sudjono Humardani-were members of the hated Aspri, the influential kitchen cabinet. One non-Aspri was General Sutomo Yuwono, head of the internal intelligence agency. The other was General Sumitro, boss of the security force Kopkamtib. Suharto stripped him of the Kopkamtib command and took personal charge of the secret police...
...slight, mustachioed Grivas was more god than man. He was already a legend during World War II, when he led a feared band of right-wing guerrillas that fought against the German occupation of Greece and, more actively, against Greek Communist partisans. Then in the 1950s his skillful command of EOKA, the Greek Cypriot guerrilla army, ended British control of the island and gained for Grivas a place in the Greek pantheon of heroes...