Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) confirmed that the main body of the Soviet Cosmos 1402, estimated to weight about 8000 pounds, fell into the atmosphere...
...late last month it became clear to the North American Aerospace Defense Command, whose cameras, radars and computers keep track of the more than 5,000 objects now in orbit, that Cosmos 1402 was not following this scenario. When it broke into three pieces on Dec. 28, all languished in the same orbit, perhaps because of a booster failure. With each swing around the earth, the nuclear reactor's orbit shrank a little more. Some U.S. officials speculate that the Soviets might be able to destroy the reactor with a remaining explosive charge, or even a burst from...
...slaughter, but a few things are clear. The Israeli military authorized the Phalangists to enter the camps. And some people reacted very slowly to reports of the ongoing disaster. Most Israelis believe their troops had the implicit duty to assure the safety of all civilians, a duty the high command officially assumed when the Israeli Army entered West Beirut the day after President-elect Bashir Gemayel's assassination...
William Taylor Jr., a 15-year-old, was killed by officer Gerald Collins. The patrolman saw Taylor running from the scene of a house burglary. When the boy did not respond to the command "Freeze," Collins hit him in the back of the head with a shotgun blast. Within a week of the killing, hundreds of Blacks hit policemen with stones and attacked squad cars. The Flint police cleared Collins of any wrongdoing...
...preferences of the entire community. As official landmarks in our greatest cities, they supposedly represent the value and attitudes held in common by the society at large. Thus bronze statues may come and go like Prohibition and Victorian morality: Emancipation, though originally made with the best of intention', cannot command public acceptance forever...