Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end armed troops continued to man checkpoints on the city's streets, and there were reports of isolated skirmishes in the countryside involving government troops and diehard Allende supporters. Nonetheless, the junta appeared to be in firm command of the country. Apparently convinced that it was in office to stay, at least 16 nations-including France, Spain, Switzerland and neighboring Argentina-recognized the new government. (The Soviet Union and East Germany, in contrast, broke relations with their onetime close ally.) Even though the Nixon Administration was unmistakably delighted at Allende's downfall, the U.S. took...
After the war, Honecker was put in charge of East Germany's Communist Youth Movement, which he turned into a paramilitary organization. By 1950 he was recognized as one of Walter Ulbricht's chosen few. A few years later he took command of the secret police, and in 1961 he was given the responsibility of building the Berlin Wall...
Heavy Losses. The I.R.A. has now all but lost its command structure. Two weeks ago, the Proves' chief of staff, Seamus Twomey, 54, was picked up by the Irish Republic garda as he slept in a farmhouse across the border. Now only one veteran I.R.A. leader remains outside of jail: David O'Connell, 35, a former schoolteacher and senior political strategist. Because of the heavy losses, the Proves' cumbersome old-style military organization has been abandoned for five-and six-man cells or "active service units," which operate independently and take their orders directly from what remains...
...decision will have an adverse effect on recruitment and morale of the self-defense forces. The decision also creates a problem for the government involving recently reacquired Okinawa, where 4,840 men have been stationed in anticipation of approval by the Diet of a bill authorizing a new defense command on the island. But the Sapporo ruling, has put a new obstacle in the path of this legislation. Now Premier Kakuei Tanaka cannot withdraw the men without violating the obligations undertaken in the U.S.-Japan reversion agreement. And he cannot keep them there without arousing howls of protest from...
Volvo President Pehr Gyllenhammar, the jaunty 38-year-old lawyer who took over command of Sweden's biggest industrial concern (annual sales: $1.5 billion) from his father-in-law in January 1973, insisted that his company had been considering the U.S. plant for many months and had not been influenced by the current world monetary disarray. However, Volvo may well profit from the money tangle. As the value of many currencies (including Sweden's krona) has continued to rise against the dollar−and as foreign labor costs have continued to mount−the once huge gap between...