Word: commandant
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...quit as France's Premier last summer with the complaint that he was never granted sufficient power, ambitious and driving Jacques ("Bulldozer") Chirac, 44, has been gunning for President Valèry Giscard d'Estaing. At a massive, brilliantly orchestrated political rally last month, Chirac took personal command of the Gaullist party with the clear aim of replacing Giscard as leader of the government's parliamentary majority (TIME, Dec. 20). For a while Giscard loftily dismissed the ruckus as mere subaltern political maneuvering. But last week Chirac flung down a challenge to the President's authority...
...avoid that, General Saiyud Kherdpol, director of the anti-guerrilla Internal Security Operations Command, has sketched a strategy for winning popular support. In a strikingly frank book, Thailand's Future, published last month, Saiyud concedes that military planners "always look at those who suffer and struggle for justice as Communists." He argues that the government must side with demands for reform in political, economic and administrative structures. Only by doing that, Saiyud feels, can the military undercut the insurgents' appeals and "keep the people from the influence of the enemy...
Tutoring, Joyce Grant says, provides the most direct service to students but is only one part of the total Roxbury/Harvard effort. Six or seven other programs are underway, and the two which Grant says command the most energy are the reading and career development programs...
...uproar provoked by the attempted elimination of 4-year housing is completely justified and must command the support of all progressive forces within the University. Fox's hallucination however, is merely a symptom of the cancer that is hounding and crippling this community. The real issue is the reckless manner in which the University has been able to run the lives of the very individuals it is supposed to serve as a source of inspiration and livelihood: its students and workers. Put as succinctly as possible: democracy has become little more than a provocative abstraction, or an esoteric topic...
From his new command center at the New York Post, which he now refers to as his U.S. flagship publication, Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch spent last week consolidating his control of his latest acquisitions, New York magazine, the Village Voice and New West. That meant a lot of changes-new faces, new plans. After committing $45 million for two corporations that both lost money last year (TIME cover Jan. 17), Murdoch needs to steer them into a quick turnaround...