Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itself out?and burning the whole world up. The Pentagon's Ikle, who made his reputation as a strategist partly on the basis of a book published eleven years ago titled Every War Must End, now admits, "War can be very difficult to stop. There is great stress on command and communication, on the structure of government, and destruction takes place very fast. This is an added deterrent to nuclear...
...national governments involved would probably have to be intact, and would have to have some means of communicating among themselves and with the other side. But one of the issues that have been debated recently is whether in fact the American national Government could survive and whether its command and control system could survive. These doubts are relevant for the Soviet Union well. The conclusion to which comes is that the best way to prevent a holocaust is to prevent any kind of nuclear war in the first place...
...elusive figures, most of them content to remain in the background while others argue their cause in public. For security reasons, they often do not even use their own names. Despite their current unity, they have resorted to murder to settle factional disputes in the past. The five guerrilla commanders who make up the general command of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) are the real powers behind the Salvadoran insurgency. If the guerrillas ever took power, these men would control El Salvador. The quintet...
Sancho admits that the guerrilla high command is Marxist, but "it is a Marxism that is 100% Salvadoran. We know we have to act with great realism and seek a policy of coexistence between our little peoples of Central America...
...gulf states headed by Saudi Arabia has decided to contribute more than $20 billion in interest-free loans and billions more in grants to Iraq. The gulf states are also mapping a regional defense plan. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has decided to create a joint armed forces command and a military strike force designed to intervene if any of the member states is threatened. So far, however, only Jordan has actively participated in the Iran-Iraq war. A 2,000-man Jordanian force has been formed to fight on the Iraqi side, and Jordan's King Hussein...