Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early anti-malarial drug. A boy down the hall from me in Weld had escaped with his mother from the Warsaw ghetto. That fall the indoor gym for a while was filled with cots to acommodate the sudden influx of returning soldiers--occupation troops from Europe or MacArthur's command...
...particularly by older Israelis, as the daring, one-eyed hero of the wars of 1956 and 1967. Outside Israel, Dayan is probably better known than any other Israeli except former Premier Golda Meir, 79. "Whenever he walks into the State Department in Washington," says one Dayan supporter, "he will command respect...
...that scarcely took the sting out of his criticism. Carter and Defense Secretary Harold Brown were furious. The President immediately summoned Singlaub to Washington for a face-to-face meeting in the Oval Office last weekend. Afterward, Secretary Brown announced that General Singlaub had been relieved of his Korean command because his public statements "inconsistent with announced national security policy have made it difficult for him to carry out" his Korean duties...
...straight for the waters between Cyprus and Iskenderun. Without breaking radio silence, it made a rendezvous at night with an Israeli ship that carried a special winch. As two Israeli gunboats hovered near the freighters, the barrels of uranium were transferred in total darkness. Except for an occasional Hebrew command, no one spoke. The uranium, TIME'S sources believe, went to the Israeli port of Haifa, approximately 110 nautical miles from the rendezvous, and the Scheersberg A headed northeast to Iskenderun...
...time is long ago and far, far away. The beautiful Princess Leia, a leader of the rebellion against the evil Galactic Empire, has just been captured by an imperial starship. She is now aboard the Empire's mobile command station, the impregnable Death Star, able to destroy whole planets with a single energy burst, and at this very moment she is being interrogated by Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and the Grand Moff Tarkin-probably the nastiest pair of villains in the thousand worlds. What, they want to know, has she done with the stolen secret plans...