Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state, President Georges Pompidou. A graduate of France's prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Jobert was a gifted civil servant who joined forces with Pompidou ten years ago as one of his top aides. Short and slight, he has a mordant wit, and his intellectual powers command the respect of Cabinet colleagues...
When he moved to the State Department, there was speculation that Kissinger would institutionalize his policies. Instead, he has become the institution. In foreign affairs, Nixon is still commander in chief, but Kissinger has asserted himself as both strategist and tactician with such sweeping command that there is no one in the White House to challenge his power. The State Department, so often derogated by the President and his aides, has been relatively untainted by Watergate. Kissinger is known to believe that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to conduct foreign policy from the White House in the present...
...been removed. Now he can face more basic considerations: how to maintain American prestige and economic power in the world. Kissinger's biggest problem is his lack of economic expertise and an economic team; he has been late in building one. He has also moved late to take command in the field of international oil and energy. Kissinger remains a stern, demanding taskmaster with Teutonic thoroughness. He uses the department more than when he was only a presidential adviser, but the operation is still based on a small personal team. His demands for perfection have not altered: his NATO...
Firmly Opposed. Sadat reshuffled his army's command. He replaced his Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Saadeddin Shazli, who had been praised only two months ago for his troops' daring canal crossing. The new Chief of Staff is Major General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el Gamasi, the soft-spoken officer-diplomat who represented the Egyptians at the Kilometer 101 negotiations. This change, as well as the appointment of new commanders for the Second and Third Armies, was interpreted in Cairo as a strong indication of Egypt's desire for a peaceful settlement...
...Alexander V. Gorbatov, 81, the Soviet army general who was arrested during the Stalin purge of 1938, sentenced to 15 years in the icy Kolyma concentration camp but later "rehabilitated" to fight the Nazis; in Moscow. Gorbatov joined the army and fought successfully in the civil war, rising to command a cavalry regiment. Following his arrest for "liberalism," along with many other army leaders, he refused to sign a false confession even after being tortured. Reinstated in 1941, he eventually commanded the Third Army in its march on Berlin...