Word: commander
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...people with more command experience and higher rank...applied for the job at Harvard," said Boston Lt. Detective Richard C. Cox in a 1993 interview. "I happen to be privy to the fact that after Paul's interview at Harvard, they basically stopped looking...
...White House. Tiraspol is the capital of Trans-Dniestr, a region of Moldova, one of the former Soviet republics. The inhabitants of Trans-Dniestr are largely Russian and Ukrainian, and for several years they have sought independence from Moldova. Lebed was sent to the region in 1992 to take command of the Fourteenth Army, and he intervened in the conflict between Moldovans and the Russian-speaking population. He has remained in Tiraspol overseeing a wary peace...
Lebed: Yes, every regional ``prince'' now has his own troops. He pays them, and they are ready to unsheathe their swords. This is totally abnormal. All armed forces must be under one single command. This is the way it used to be. Now everybody thinks he can have his own private army...
Lebed: Positively. It's my ``porcupine'' theory of command. No commander can know everything. He must rely on deputies, competent in the narrow areas assigned them. His responsibility is to make sure none of them tugs the blanket to one side of the bed. A deputy who answers ``Yes, sir'' to every stupid thing his commander says can get his boss into serious trouble. He must have the courage to take a stand and be able to defend...
...government claimed that the offensive successfully reasserted its authority throughout the region. Indeed, in Guadalupe Tepeyac, where the Zapatista leader who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos made his headquarters most of last year, a garrison of 20 soldiers did seem to be in command--but in command of a ghost town. Elsewhere too, Zapatistas were neither fighting nor giving up but melting away into the jungle, sometimes with families in tow. As a car carrying two journalists approached the village of Oventik, 20 men who had been hoeing at the ground ran into their huts, grabbed clothes, firewood and babies...