Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making the appointment, Watson noted, "We are most fortunate to have such an outstanding person and teacher as Corey to place in command of the women's program." Wynn was extremely popular with the racquetwomen last spring and his easy-going style shouldn't breed the kind of problems that the team experienced with McCarthy last season...
...Belenko approached Japanese airspace near Sapporo, the site of the 1972 Winter Olympics, his pursuers suddenly turned back, probably recalled to their base by radio command. Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces, spotting the intruder on radar, warned him (in Russian) by radio that he would soon violate Japanese airspace. When Belenko neither responded nor changed course, the Japanese scrambled two Phantoms to intercept the plane. But find him they could not. Belenko managed for 24 minutes to elude the Phantoms, probably by the simple expedient of flying again at low altitudes, below the sweep of the Air Self-Defense Forces...
...sales manager for Schenley. "He kept his hand in his pocket all the time, as if he had a gun." One of the skyjackers was a young woman who claimed she was an American and was married to another member of the group. The terrorists were polite once in command, distributing to all the passengers leaflets explaining their organization, "Fighters for Free Croatia," and their aims. But they ordered the plane to turn north toward Montreal, where it landed at Mirabel International Airport and was refueled...
...Little Red Book amply demonstrates, Mao was the most readable of Marxist theoreticians. But in other speeches, poems and letters, Mao displayed even more strikingly than in the book a command of pungent metaphor, as well as occasional flights of lyricism. A sampler...
Dubious Charges. The captured Buscayno will go on trial this week before a military tribunal-along with his second in command in the N.P.A., Victor Corpuz, and Benigno Aquino Jr., the former Liberal Party leader and presidential candidate, who has been confined for the past four years on dubious charges that he was an N.P.A. leader.* They will almost surely be convicted, but they stand a good chance of a presidential pardon if they make confessions and come over to the government side...