Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week it was disclosed that the Air Force has suspended low-level testing of the B-1B. The Strategic Air Command has restricted the 72 operational bombers to altitudes of several thousand feet until the crash investigation is complete and safety changes are made on the troubled, and vulnerable, plane...
...notes of a familiar tune by the Spinners come up on the sound system, and then he's off, moonwalking across stage with his shades down and an arrow ready, singing, or seeming to sing, "Cupid, draw back your bow . . ." Lovedart is an agreeable fake, a master of the command nonperformance, an angel, yes, but also a duke- duke-duke of the lip-sync world...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a P.L.O. splinter group based in Damascus, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was an effort "to revive the armed struggle" against the Jewish state. Israeli officials said they have known for several years that the group's leader, Ahmed Jibril, was training hang-glider terrorist squads in Syria. Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Ehud Barak vowed that Jibril's organization "will in due time pay the price" for its murderous mission...
...command performance for the NCAA drug testing committee...
...hard edge returned when Nixon compared Gorbachev with two other Soviet leaders he had dealt with: "Unlike ((Nikita)) Khrushchev, he has no inferiority complex. He is totally confident, in command, and secure . . . Gorbachev is as tough as ((Leonid)) Brezhnev but better educated, more skillful, more subtle . . . Brezhnev used a meat axe in his negotiations. Gorbachev uses a stiletto. But beneath the velvet glove he always wears there is a steel fist...