Word: commander
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...Israeli government called a "preventive measure," was the most severe assault against Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon in more than two years. As if to emphasize the significance of the attack, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who is Israel's Acting Defense Minister, spent part of the night at command headquarters for the operation in the border town of Metulla. Coincidentally, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, was directing the defense both in the field and from his headquarters in Beirut. At the end of the raid, Israeli forces withdrew, claiming that they had killed at least...
...narrow trailer, he roll call over rules was under way. Four TV sets, all turned on, were stacked on top of one another in one corner, and he two men sat knee to knee watching closely. Carter Aides Jody Powell and Tim Kraft pushed their way into the rickety command center. Alabama was solid for Carter, but when California passed, Jordan thought he saw a strategy. "Kennedy is holding back the big states to make the others uneasy," he said. When Colorado lost a few Carter delegates, the group moved restlessly, but there was no real concern. Maine took...
...Reagan's first attempt to strengthen America was to divide and dilute the presidency. You can only have one President. It's hard enough for the President to be in command. If anything, the presidency has been weakened too much in recent years. I think we need to strengthen the presidency again, not in terms of an excess of unaccountable power, but you know, it is really a pathetic sight that you leave a President with $1.95 a year to conduct foreign relations. For example, in the case of Nicaragua, where a little help early on might have...
...modifies the doctrine of how the nation plans to respond to a Soviet nuclear strike. Brown is expected to say that in the future, more of the Pentagon's land-based Minuteman ICBMS and B-52 bombers will be targeted at Soviet military installations and political and military command centers, as well as at major cities. Arms experts call this targeting concept "counterforce" because it is designed primarily to destroy the enemy's forces rather than large numbers of civilians. In a note to the NATO allies two weeks ago, outlining the policy, Brown explained...
Casablancas also realized that the young Venuses who vend every imaginable product in print and on TV could command far higher rates than they were getting. The hourly charge for a top model has trebled (up to $300 an hour) in the past three years. Instead of setting fixed fees for a model's time, Casablancas started negotiating each booking with a canny perception of the client's particular needs and the girl's availability. The whole industry has had to follow suit, with the result that many models' incomes and clients' budgets have skyrocketed...