Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cairo radio announced last week the death by suicide of Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, the onetime second in command to Gamal Abdel Nasser be fore he fell into disgrace over Egypt's defeat in the Arab-Israeli war. At the same time, the radio announced that Amer, 47, had already been buried in his home village of Astal, 150 miles south of Cairo. Whether Amer jumped or was pushed into eternity, the news of his "suicide" added new tension and suspicion in a country already seething dangerously with plots, resentments and repression...
...Chicken Vendor. The French were just then opening up their first officer class for the newly created Vietnamese army. Thieu enlisted and graduated at 26 with a second lieutenant's commission and orders to take command of an infantry platoon in the Delta. It was Viet Minh country, and the platoon got a hostile reception. For two weeks, the peasants would not even sell it any food. Then one day the Viet Minh mortared Thieu's little camp. After the bombardment, an old man suddenly appeared with eggs and chickens to sell. "I knew why he had come...
Meanwhile, he moved steadily up the army ladder. In 1956, and again in 1960, he was sent to the U.S. for specialized military training. He put in four years as commandant of the National Military Academy at Dalat, a period that to this day continues to provide him with a reservoir of support among many middle-grade officers who look up to him as their teacher. His entree into politics came in December, 1962, when Diem assigned him to the command of the 5th, or Anti-Coup, Division, strategically positioned just north of Saigon. Thieu was put there because Diem...
...power over all laws drafted by the various ministers. In addition, he has created his own mini-Cabinet, which supersedes the work of regular ministries in such diverse fields as press censorship, civil service and sports. He has trimmed the power of his junta associates by relieving Pattakos of command of the politically powerful armored forces training center near Athens and putting his own men in key positions as troop commanders and secret police officials...
Under Geneen, the company developed the Strategic Air Command's control switching network, maintains Washington's "hot line" to MOSCOW, operates the Air Force's Distant Early Warning (DEW) system. It even drew on its overall management know-how to pick up the thankless task of running the federal Job Corps project at Camp Kilmer, which was bound to be controversial if only because residents of surrounding New Jersey communities did not want a conclave of so-called juvenile delinquents in their midst. After a noisy start, the camp has gone out of the headlines, and even...