Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cease fire entered its fourth day with only one violation reported. The Israeli military command said Palestinian guerrillas fired mortars against Israeli troops at Damour, 11 miles south of Beirut, wounding three Israelis...
Molander may be the single most visible (and thoughtful) leader in the nebulous movement, but there is no individual or organization in command. And there are already signs of strain. The day after the Central Park turnout, Moorhead Kennedy, one of the 53 Iranian hostages and now the director of a peace institute at New York City's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, was heckled by anti-nuclear activists as he delivered a lecture on disarmament. He had expressed some wariness of the "extremely seductive" promises that arms control "is an issue for 'the people...
...well as the great older pieces, she danced with the daring thrust and exquisite musicality that make her perhaps the finest ballerina in the country now. Or it could have been a Heather Watts festival, for this sexy, all-grit dancer seemed to be onstage and in command every night...
Many of us in the infantry feel the A-10 is our most important defensive weapon against Soviet armor. Naturally, the Tactical Air Command is not as excited about ground-support aircraft as we in the infantry...
...three-man junta that had been picked to run the country by the junior officers who ousted General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia. In an equally swift maneuver, Rios Montt last week fired the other two members of the junta, and expressing thanks to God for having put him in command, proclaimed himself President of the country...