Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small Iowa caucus arena but risks coming across to a national audience as a Mondale-style panderer to special interests. "If Gephardt really wanted to look gutsy," says one party critic, "he'd tell the unions where to go." Biden has tried to look tough by taking command of the battle against Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork. But he ends up seeming to cater to liberal groups and surrendering his independent judgment on the biggest issue he faces as Senate Judiciary chairman. Babbitt is more consistent in his willingness to take unpopular stands, as he did last week by proposing...
...troops arrived in the Jaffna area last week, J.N. Dixit, the Indian High Commissioner in Colombo, heightened Sinhalese fears that India might be aiming at more than a temporary stay. When the troop deployment was announced, Colombo promised that the units would be under Sri Lankan command. Sounding a bit like a proconsul, Dixit told a Colombo news conference that the troops would answer to him. The next day Dixit retreated, saying the Indian troops were ultimately under Jayewardene's authority...
...Stripes, prepared to limp out of the Persian Gulf with a 30-ft. by 10-ft. hole in its hull caused by a mine that caught its American protectors unprepared. Jumbo military transports belatedly began ferrying minesweeping helicopters from Norfolk, Va. A Navy helicopter trying to land on the command ship of the task force crashed, with four Americans presumed dead. And the whole region was on edge in the wake of a protest by Iranian pilgrims that turned into a bloodbath in the Saudi Arabian holy city of Mecca. The week's events reminded a twitchy...
...Pentagon said the SH-3G Sea King helicopter crashed into the water at 5:58 p.m. local time, or 10:58 a.m. EDT, as it was flying from a land base to the LaSalle, the command ship of the Mideast Task Force...
...nature as well as by habit, the Soviet system has always run on fear and force. Gorbachev is now telling both rulers and ruled that it runs badly. But to make the system run well, is Gorbachev willing to lead his comrades toward a future in which command and intimidation are replaced by consent and competition? If he tries, will they follow? If they do, will the resulting society still be the Soviet Union? To judge from the resistance that Gorbachev talks about openly, quite a few of his fellow citizens are worried not so much about ideological purity...