Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chain of Command...
...find it appalling that L. Patrick Gray III considers the FBI just "part of the chain of command" or that he cooperates in every way possible with the Chief Executive, who should be above suspicion. What is appalling is that our Chief Executive is not above suspicion but smack in the middle...
...While I am in sympathy with the general tone of your article, advocating impartial law enforcement and non-politicization of the FBI, I must take exception to your criticism of Gray's remarks that he was just "part of the chain of command" that leads to the White House. Surely he must be responsible to somebody. What would be the alternative? Perhaps another branch of the Government, giving us the legislative, judicial, executive and investigative...
When it finally arrived, the day that the G.I.s called X-plus-60 was hot and mildly anticlimactic. On the withdrawal deadline two months after the Paris truce signing, the U.S. military command in Viet Nam was closed down in a simple midday ceremony in a parking lot near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase. No U.S. military band was available for the occasion. Loudspeakers blared out a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner, and a color guard rolled up the blue flag of the command under which 2,500,000 American G.I.s had served since 1962. Ellsworth Bunker...
...Joseph Yablonski and his wife and daughter, Special Prosecutor Richard Sprague has suspected that "the person who set this chain of events in motion" was former U.M.W. President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. After convicting the actual killers, Sprague has been trying to nail men higher and higher in the union command. Last week it was the turn of William J. Prater, a former U.M.W. organizer, who transferred $20,000 in funds allegedly used to hire the assassins. Prater's lawyer noted that four of the five already convicted had turned state's evidence; "they decided there was only...