Word: commander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war," he declared. Teng evidently relishes his new power. Shortly after his rehabilitation, visitors to China said he seemed a bit hesitant and unsure of himself. Now, say more recent visitors, he seems confident and very much in command...
...members of whom some 2,000 are active fighters) and Syrian-backed Saiqa (about 2,000 members, including 1,000 fighters). Opposing them are such "rejection front" groups as George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (estimated membership: 3,500), the P.F.L.P.-General Command, led by former Syrian Army Captain Ahmed Jebreel (150 hard-core guerrillas) and the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front (about 100 members...
...waiting, turned off the runway lights and went home. A furious Roberto was forced to return to Kinshasa. Recently there have been fistfights, stone-throwing and open fighting between soldiers of the two allies. In one Shootout in Huambo two weeks ago, 25 were killed. Although UNITA and F.N.L.A. commanders meet to plan strategy, there is no joint field command, and no soldier from one movement will take an order from an officer of the other...
...British troops in the area is so risky that it has been abandoned: the army either moves about by chopper or does not move at all. Disgruntled British officers claim that their troops are outgunned by I.R.A. forces, which are equipped with Browning heavy machine guns that command a range of 3,000 meters, v. the 1,000 meters covered by the British standard-issue general-purpose machine...
...Juan Perón's petulant widow went through the motions of governing as if in a trance and the nation hung ever more precariously on the precipice of political and economic chaos, many Argentines wondered why the military did not simply end the charade and officially take command...