Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most predictable trait is bis unpredictability. "It's almost impossible to evaluate the man in rational terms," says a British diplomat. "With the coming of dawn, he may take off on a completely new tack." He is a man of mercury, quick to anger. Once when his second in command, Abdul Salam Jalloud, made a mistake, Gaddafi had Jalloud's hair shaved off. He often carries a side arm; more than once, he has lost patience and pulled out his gun, aiming it at the person who offended...
...Christians-especially Protestants-that there are the vast numbers who could form new majorities, new sentiments. At least for the moment, though the bulk of organized American Christianity supports the very worst political tendencies, confusing, making synonymous, the identities of Americans and Christians. Jerry Falwell and his ilk do command an enormous following, and anyone with a feel for statistics can prove the existence of the overwhelmingly conservative Bible Belt with the results of a single election. Anyone with eyes and ears can prove its existence with a three-day car trip. Even in liberal America, religion is comfortable...
Until four minutes remaining in the half, the lead petered back and forth without either team taking command of the game. But at that time, the Catamounts put together another mini-streak and found themselves with a five point lead...
...mineral resources, said Watt, pledging to undo "50 years or so of bad Government." Said a delighted Reagan: "Sic 'em." And Watt did, promptly becoming the most ideologically controversial member of the Cabinet. As he puts it: "I was brought in to yell down a new chain of command on environmental issues. I yelled, and to my surprise, I was obeyed." He proposed offering for lease 1 billion new acres of offshore tracts for energy exploration, despite ecologists' protests that drilling on many of the sites threatened coastline areas as well as endangered species. He also advocated selling...
...Polish engineer, Kvitsinsky grew up in Siberia. Assigned to East Germany from 1959 to 1965 and to West Germany since 1978, he is one of Moscow's large corps of German experts. It may, indeed, be the reason Kvitsinsky was chosen for the Geneva assignment. With his impressive command of German language, history and culture, he will be well placed to promote the Soviet Union's image as a peace-loving nation to West German missile opponents through the press and television. But Kvitsinsky is no Germanophile. Noted the liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung:"He knows the Germans...