Word: commander
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...campaign. TIME's Jon Lee Anderson traveled to meet the rebels in the remote Bocay River valley in the department of Jinotega. Ferried to a rendezvous point controlled by the rebels about 50 miles from the border with Honduras, he met with the F.D.N.'s top military commander, Enrique Bermúdez Varela. Anderson reported that the rebel troops appeared "well fed, well armed and confident of eventual victory," despite their apparent loss of U.S. covert support. According to Bermudez, the F.D.N. has the supplies to keep its 10,000 members fighting for at least six more months...
Pity the genre novelist who embarks on a different course. For more than 25 years, Françoise Sagan has published brief, ironic tales of love lost or betrayed. She is a supremely confident writer, both in her resolute economy of style and in her command of the milieu she describes: the frivolous, overwrought bourgeois society where emotion can be both teased and indulged...
Very much in attendance at the preliminaries were members of the so-called Class of'88, the party leaders who hope to win command in the post-Reagan era. A heavy schedule of howdying was blocked out for Vice President George Bush. Congressman Jack Kemp was one of the chief draftsmen of the platform's economic planks, including its stand against a tax increase in the near future. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and Kansas Senator Robert Dole were honing their prime-time speeches, as was Dole's wife Elizabeth, the Secretary of Transportation. "We're trying to coordinate them...
...disqualified for striking a blow after the Yugoslav referee had ordered a break. Never mind that the punch knocked out Barry; never mind that Barry had been fouling Holyfield and was on the verge of disqualification; never mind that Holyfield probably could not have heard the referee's command over the crowd noise. But do bring to mind the moment when Barry gallantly raised Holyfield's arm in acknowledgment of the American's triumph. A U.S. protest was ultimately disallowed, and a disappointed Holyfield had to settle for the bronze. Barry won the silver, leaving Yugoslav Anton...
There was Light Flyweight Paul Gonzales, 20, for example, 106 Ibs. of controlled barrio macho with an elegant command of the ring. Favoring an injured right arm, Gonzales disposed of his Venezuelan opponent in the semifinals by scoring repeatedly with a classic left jab. He won his final in a walkover when his opponent, Salvatore Todisco of Italy, turned out to have broken a thumb in a previous bout. Ten years ago, Gonzales was running with the violent gangs of predominantly Hispanic East Los Angeles. Taken in hand by Sympathetic Cop Al Stankie, Gonzales emerged as a home-town hero...