Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly the Worst. With the investigation over, officers who had served with him made their first critical statements since the case began. Major General Barnes said that he had given Herbert a command position despite advice against the assignment. Said Barnes; "Fifty-eight days later, I had had Herbert up to here. I have commanded 20 battalion commanders in my time, and Herbert was clearly the worst. He also is the only one I ever relieved...
There were trial blackouts in the East Pakistan capital of Dacca too, but they are taken much more seriously there; after all, civil war between Bengali rebels and the Pakistani army is already a bloody reality. The Pakistan military command urged East Pakistanis to begin digging trenches in the compounds of all buildings "to face any eventuality...
...given to the Bar-Lev Line of Israeli fortifications along the Suez Canal, will leave the army at the end of the year in line with an Israeli tradition of generals retiring before they are 50. Bar-Lev's successor: his oldest friend and current second-in-command as chief of operations, Major General David ("Dado") Elazar...
...surface a simple hand-over of command, the move injects a new and complicating element into Israel's already tangled politics. Barring another war, Bar-Lev will step into the Cabinet, probably in April, to take up the key economic portfolio of Minister of Commerce and Industry. He will also step into an increasingly bitter campaign for the succession to Premier Golda Meir...
...played all right. Considered juju (good luck) by the Biafrans, he rode around in a white Mercedes with a death's-head pennant fluttering from its hood. Though a capable military commander, Steiner was regarded by observers as something between a borderline psychopath and a gleeful good Samaritan. To command attention from his troops, he would fire submachine-gun bursts into the ground at their feet...