Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue uniform. All the victims were over 60; each was attacked by a man in his 20s. Raised in suburban ease, Hinckley had just drifted away, aimless and alone, gorging on fast food in rented rooms and fantasizing a love affair with a teenage movie star. It was to command this dream girl's attention that he shot the President. Awaiting trial early this year, at which his lawyers will plead insanity, Hinckley, alone in a Maryland stockade cell, now has only himself to hurt; twice he has attempted suicide. Agca, after a boyhood of rural Turkish poverty, attended...
...expansion team was conceived by him in 1967 as a surrogate for the Cleveland Browns, the team he founded in 1946 that bears his name. After 17 mostly glorious seasons in Cleveland, Brown lost title in a power struggle with Art Modell, and Paul made sure he kept total command the next time...
...theory, Communism was originally, and supposedly remains today, a social and political doctrine based on economic goals and means. The chief goal is an equitable distribution of the wealth that society produces. The principal means is a command economy, in which the state, rather than private individuals or enterprises, takes responsibility for all production and distribution...
...Colonel Jonathan Alford of London's Institute for Strategic Studies, the intervention would be carried out "with a very great margin of superiority." His estimate is that the Soviets would bring in as many as 35 divisions, with around 500,000 men. But Alford believes the Soviet high command has counseled caution over Poland. One reason: even on so crushing a scale, the military is rarely able to produce a political solution...
...suffered numerous rebuffs. They must sting. Gaddafi has attempted to work out ambitious mergers of Libya with Tunisia, Egypt and Syria. His present link with Syria is largely symbolic and may well collapse, as the others did, in recrimination. In 1973 Gaddafi ordered an Egyptian submarine, temporarily under his command in Libyan waters, to torpedo the Queen Elizabeth II, which was carrying hundreds of Jews from Southampton to Haifa to celebrate Israel's 25th anniversary. Sadat, who was then still on speaking terms with Gaddafi, countermanded the order. Over the past decade, Gaddafi has continually tried to get hold...