Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Rubinger was on assignment in Spain. But both hurried back to Israel to join TIME'S Robert Slater, who was covering the political action in Jerusalem. Within hours they were in the battle zone. Rubinger photographed Halevy interviewing Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon at a forward military command post. One reporter found himself in the right place, right from the start. TIME'S Leroy Aarons had been dispatched protectively by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman to Metulla, Israel's northernmost town. On Sunday morning, one of the three main waves of the Israeli invasion force came...
...week's end Israeli tanks and appeared to be poised for a possible across the border. All of Israel's military forces were fully mobilized, and troops throughout the rest of the were on alert. The Ministerial Committee, consisting of the Cabinet and military high command, met in Jerusalem to consider what step Israel might take next. The Middle East peace, thin as an eggshell at the best of times seemed on the verge of shattering...
...Clock High; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Drawn to becoming an Army pilot by a movie he saw while at Yale, he was shot down over France in 1944 leading a bomber mission. His adventures in the air fueled such movies as Above and Beyond (1952) and Strategic Air Command (1955). Criticized for being monothematic, he replied, "I think the ah" is like the sea; it's a vast medium into which the writer can probe for a lifetime...
...government that is engaging in war against Iran. Last week Khomeini said publicly: "I warn the governments of the region to deal with us according to the tenets of Islam. Otherwise, if their behavior should require the enforcement of Koranic injunctions, we shall enforce God's command." Added Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: "We shall stop at nothing in order to gain our legitimate rights, and the fall of Saddam Hussein is our greatest right." In a particularly revealing gesture, 116 Majlis members sent a congratulatory message to Khomeini, noting that it was time to push...
There is nothing like a spot of action to cure the blahs, and luckily the Enterprise, now under Mr. Spock's command, is about to take off with a crew of cadets on a training mission, and Kirk decides to come along. Equally luckily, "the wrath of Khan" has been bottled up out there in the galaxy, steeping in its own malevolence, just waiting for someone to pull the cork. It happens that Khan, played by Ricardo Montalban, who appears delighted to send his dinner jacket to the cleaners and slip into something scruffy, blames Kirk...