Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bell's command, the machine can re-create the exact movements of the stars for an entire day in just 30 seconds and rearrange the sky in under a minute. It can perfectly duplicate the heavens visible from any hemisphere, taking the audience from New York to the South Pole and back up to the other side of the North Pole-all without stopping for lunch and in about 40 seconds. Bell is almost giddy as he lets the machine tumble time back to the reign of Herod and thence to the Adoration of Christ...
Tough, abrasive, resilient, Teng, 74, has made more political comebacks than Richard Nixon. Twice, at Mao's behest, he was purged by his radical enemies, and his last rehabilitation was only 17 months ago. Teng commands a broad power base among the senior officers of the People's Liberation Army as well as wide support among China's bureaucrats, technocrats and the intelligentsia. The last two were precisely those elements of Chinese society that, like Teng, were the chief victims of the Cultural Revolution. Besides his constituency, Teng has extraordinary energy and executive skills. As a party member for more...
...second half, the J.V. came out strong, scoring a quick seven points to the Classics' two and closing the game to within three. But the Classics could not forget their earlier 73-67 loss and two quick baskets put them back in command...
...West's airpower is AW ACS (Airborne Warning and Control System). NATO's purchase of 18 of these $128.5 million Boeing 707s cleared a major hurdle two weeks ago when it was okayed by a key committee of West Germany's Bundestag. Designed as an airborne command post, AWACS can detect enemy planes from as far away as 400 miles and then coordinate attacks against them. Says General John W. Pauly, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe: "With AWACS, our air defense becomes about 500% more effective...
Safer supplies. U.S. ammunition depots and even aircraft used to sit out in the open in West Germany, vulnerable to attack. Now all U.S. warplanes are tucked safely inside $550,000 concrete and steel hangars. These are capable of withstanding a direct hit from a 500-lb. bomb. Many command posts, ammunition dumps and fuel depots have been similarly hardened. Tougher training. U.S. forces in Europe train more frequently and in more realistic circumstances than in the past. Surprise alerts sound at any moment of the day or night, sending troops racing to their posts. During the exercises, communications...