Word: commandant
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Mellon Professor of the Humanities Zeph Stewart will take at least a one-year leave of absence from the Classics Department to "plan and coordinate the center's activities," he said yesterday. A member of the faculty since 1953, Stewart will assume command this summer...
Diplomatic observers believe that Rifaat negotiated his return during a secret visit to Damascus in October and in talks with presidential envoys subsequently sent to Europe. Among his intentions is to regain command of Syria's elite Defense Companies, a position he lost earlier this year, in part because of his rash use of the unit during a three-way power struggle. Hafez Assad, 54, was then recuperating from a heart attack. By all appearances in recent months, the President's recovery has been complete...
...against any damaging spillover from the war. After a three-day meeting in Kuwait's palatial conference hall, built especially for this summit, the leaders announced plans for the creation of an estimated 2,000-to 3,000-man rapid deployment force, which could operate under a unified command based in Saudi Arabia...
...wins were especially sweet for Hulbert and Kaye, who were coming off disappointing defeats at Trinity. Kaye was in command of her match all the way, defeating Brown's Sue Cutler by scores...
RONALD REAGAN picked Bush in 1980 to balance his grass-roots Western conservatism with some Eastern Establishment moderatism. Selecting a vice president a vice president to balance the ticket is hardly new: the party nominee almost always chooses the potential second-in-command more for ideological or geographical appeal than for talent or expertise. This year's prematurely gleeful Democrats all too readily dissected their female candidate into the politically relevant pieces: woman, mother of three, Roman Catholic, Italian, liberal Democrat, and New Yorker...