Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps more than any other event, a change in command at the Kremlin holds out hope for better relations between Washington and Moscow. It gives the leaders of the nuclear-armed superpowers a fresh slate, free of personal enmity and old misunderstandings. Because a new Soviet leader is, almost by definition, an unknown quantity, he is seen through hopeful Western eyes as a possible friend, or at least something less than an unblinking enemy. And so, now that Yuri Andropov has become only the fourth new Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin died at the height of the cold...
...sleek dark-green Pershing II missile shot up, up and away last Friday in its first successful test firing. "I can tell you there was a sigh of relief back here," said Winant Sidle, a spokesman for manufacturer Martin Marietta. David Harris of the Army Missile Command, who had watched three previous tests go awry, wept as the missile disappeared in a corkscrew of smoke and headed downrange for 66 nautical miles over a desert dotted with sagebrush and yucca. "Congress told us we needed a good firing, and we got one today," he said, his voice choked with emotion...
...turn of the U.S. delegates, Vice President George Bush and Secretary of State George Shultz. The Americans and the Russian looked at each other carefully as Viktor Sukhodrev, who had been Brezhnev's interpreter, translated for Andropov. The new Soviet leader showed no inclination to display his reputed command of English. Knowing they had been invited to talk privately with Andropov in two hours, the Americans then moved on toward a large portrait of Brezhnev, draped in black, that had been set up on a table just beyond the receiving line. Nearly every delegation had stopped to face...
...back-up to junior Monroe Trout, the 225-pounder who filled the middle for Harvard last year. Just recovering from a back strain suffered in a pick-up game earlier this fall. Trout made his first appearance eight minutes and 21 seconds into last night's exhibition. Trout took command right away, grabbing two rebounds and chalking up three points in less than two minutes. Jiangsu's 6-ft., 11-in. Lee Chonshan made no move to challenge Trout, and the shorter American college student taught the Chinese high school senior how to play the low post...
...well as underneath the hoop, and his 97.6 percent success at the line ranked him a among the nation's stop free throw shooters for the 1981 82 campaign Honorable Mention. All Ivy last year and league Rookie of the year in 1981. Carrabino has the potential to take command of the Harvard offence...