Word: commander
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From Illinois' Scott Air Force Base, the Military Airlift Command dispatched C-141 Starlifters and C-130 Hercules cargo craft to carry ambulances, trucks, tents and even a mobile hospital to the refugee centers. Field kitchens, showers and 27 tons of C rations were flown in. Carter yielded to the plea of Florida Governor Bob Graham and the state's Congressmen and declared a state of emergency in Southern Florida. That will enable local authorities to be repaid from federal funds for their emergency help to the refugees. The President also made $10 million available from a refugee...
...sudden change of command at the State Department has transformed the nature of any Vienna meeting. It is now seen as an appropriate opportunity for the two men to get better acquainted. To prepare for the meeting, Muskie last week pored over a stack of briefing books and huddled with the State Department's top Soviet experts. During testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the confirmation hearings for his new post, he said: "I would expect each side to undertake to lay out its perception of each other's policies." Thus it was anticipated that Gromyko...
...called Carter Doctrine may prove quite dangerous, for it implies a far greater capability than now exists. It also asserts a determination that if once seriously tested would have to be vindicated, as matters now stand, by falling back on the threat of nuclear war. These considerations should command our attention rather than the very few options that remain in dealing with the hostages problem...
...country and picking up precise intelligence on where the hostages were and how they were guarded. Over the months, the militants had decreased their numbers and vigilance. Also, the U.S. had launched two secret military satellites in late November, completing the Air Force's positioning of six command and communications satellites around the world, including one over the Indian Ocean. The system could send almost instantaneous messages between the Pentagon and rescue commanders in the field. It might even have helped covert agents get information out of Tehran...
From the start, the partisans were opposed by the Četniks-Serbian royalists loyal to the exiled King Peter II-who were led by Colonel Dragoljub Mihailović. Tito initially offered to join forces with the Četniks and put his troops under Mihailović's command. More fearful of the Communists than of the Germans, Mihailović demurred and his Četniks were soon engaged in civil war against the partisans. (He was tried after the war and executed...