Word: commandant
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...coat in the trunk of her automobile is just one sign of Feinstein's highly involved, hands-on governing style. She also has a police call number (1-M-600) and keeps a navy blue, civil defense jumpsuit in her car in case she ever needs to assume command after a major earthquake. In the day-to-day affairs of San Francisco, which she has run with increasing sureness for the past five years, virtually no detail is too minor to claim her attention. For her efforts, she can point to some impressive results: San Francisco ended its past...
...audience, Isabel and Alfonsín exchanged effusive compliments, then met for 35 minutes behind closed doors. When they emerged, Alfonsín remarked, "We don't have important differences. All we have to discuss is tactics." Said Isabel: "You know, Mr. President, I'm at your command." Replied Alfonsín: "It's mutual...
DIED. Semyon F. Romanov, 63, colonel general in the Soviet armed forces who was chief of staff of the air defense forces last September when a fighter plane under his overall command shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with a loss of 269 lives, and who defended the Soviet action four days later in Pravda; "in the line of duty," the customary phrase for a military officer; in East Germany, where he had just been assigned as a representative of the Soviet marshal commanding the Warsaw Pact forces, an apparent demotion that fueled speculation about a possible purge...
Another unit of 225 Rangers under Lieut. Colonel James Rudder was dispatched to Pointe du Hoc, a 100-foot-high promontory four miles west of Omaha and ten miles east of Utah. Their assignment: to knock out six heavily defended German 155-mm guns that could command both beaches. They fired rocket-propelled grappling hooks up to the top of the cliff and then began the fearful climb up ropes and ladders. The Germans splattered the oncoming Rangers with machine-gun fire, grenades, even boulders, and they managed to cut several of the ropes on which the Rangers were inching...
...afternoon of June 25,1876, with guns blazing and sandy hair shining, Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, along with some 220 of the troopers under his command, was massacred near Montana's Little Bighorn River. The secrets of his last stand against more than 2,500 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors were buried with him. There were no white survivors to tell the tale, but plenty of folks back East were ready to propel Custer directly into legend as a straight-shooting hero. The years have only served to embellish the myths and mysteries...