Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most outspoken of the opposition parties is the National Progressive Unionist Party, a grouping of Marxists and socialists led by Khaled Mohieddin, who was known as the "Red Major" when he was a member of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. Among the leftist charges: much of the $10 billion given to Egypt by Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Arab states since 1973 has never reached the people; a bribe of $1.5 million was paid to a government official to get a hotel project started near the Pyramids; the army sold a plane, a gift from another...
Despite some initial failures, the U.N. units seem to be coming to terms with the Palestinians. After a fight in which one of his men was wounded by a band of irregulars, the Norwegian commander, Major Tor Løset, went to see the local Palestinian leaders. "I told them we regretted using our weapons," he said later. "They told me they regretted the incident too. They said that none of their regular forces participated. I told them we should have a telephone line direct to their headquarters so we could communicate if there were future attempts to infiltrate...
Miller has moved into Washington with much command and in some two months he has brought to the board a new flexibility and crispness. Says one staffer: "We can't keep up with him. He's an electric mosquito." The former Textron Inc. chairman roams the Fed's cold marble halls at a slow jogger's pace, thrusting out his hand to someone he does not know and saying, "Hi, I'm Bill Miller." He signs memos "Bill," calls almost everyone at the Federal Reserve by his first name, and works in shirtsleeves...
...less inane on principle) but rather by the idea that they are being told what to do. The Faculty should have more confidence than it apparently does in the innate intellectual curiosity of most of its students. For as they well know, no bee will produce much honey on command (true, Mozart could write operas in this fashion but he was something of an exception), but if left to its own devices, the bee can produce quite remarkable results. --David H. Peipers...
...command center for that role is Charles' desk in his suite at Buckingham Palace. There are suites for the Prince at Windsor, Balmoral, Sandringham and other castle-homes, and the new digs at Chevening House in Kent, still under renovation. Charles has both his lodgings and office in his third-floor palace apartment overlooking St. James's Park. A few years back, Designer David Hicks redecorated the suite, but Charles has added his own touches and a good bit of clutter. The bathroom is hung with favorite cartoons, the sitting room crammed with memorabilia from his journeys. There are books...