Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Habash also refused to commit his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to Khadafy's proposed campaign of violence, the sources added, and Ahmed Jebril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, "showed little enthusiasm...
Last week's negotiations are nothing, however, compared with the coming struggle over taxes. For Gramm-Rudman does not command specific budget cuts; it only commands that the Government stop spending money it doesn't have. So why can't taxes be raised? Mainly because Ronald Reagan is passionately opposed to raising them, and because House Democrats, whom Reagan likes to blame for past increases, will not cooperate unless Reagan asks them to do so. Reagan will have to "take the hard knocks," as Speaker Tip O'Neill put it. Or as one Senate G.O.P. strategist suggested, "We all have...
...third image of Shultz. One by one, his more assertive rivals find themselves relegated to the sidelines while Shultz's views are heard on an increasing number of issues. Few in Washington doubt the description of Shultz's prominence voiced by Donald Regan, an old friend now in command of the White House staff: "The foreign policy that Shultz is enunciating is President Reagan's foreign policy...
Opposition to the recommendation has come from those concerned that students will not have a strong enough command of accounting to survive the production course in their first term at the Business School...
...show, sponsored by the Valiant Air Command, one of several nonprofit organizations in the country whose aim is to restore and maintain historic aircraft, had hoped to re-create the Doolittle raid by getting 16 B-25s off the ground at Titusville. "Folks, we really tried," apologized an announcer, Ted Anderson. "At the moment, there aren't 16 flyable B-25s in America." In the end, they got seven...