Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought Charlie was in complete command, and [pitching coach] Gary Blaylock and I agreed it was his game to win or lose," Royals Manager Dick Howser said...
...Services subcommittee would designate him the "principal military adviser" to the President, authorized to make recommendations that any or all of the individual services might oppose. The Chairman also would gain a permanent seat on the National Security Council and supervisory authority over the ten generals and admirals who command forces in the field. (Each leads a unified command--all U.S. land, naval and air forces in the Pacific, for example--or a specified command of one service. They now get their orders directly from the Secretary of Defense or the President...
...member of the Condor people, a fierce warrior tribe to the north. His name is Terter Abhao, which translates into Kesh as Kills. When North Owl is nine, he reappears and spends the autumn and winter. The young girl watches his behavior toward the soldiers under his command. He tells her how to give them an order. She does so, and they instantly obey: "So I first felt the great energy of the power that originates in imbalance...
...even worse. Yet morale appears to be high among the 800 officers and enlisted men in the Santos Lopez counterinsurgency battalion, an elite Nicaraguan army unit stationed on the banks of the northern Bocay River. "I enjoy what I am doing," says Filemon Avilez Alfaro, 36, the battalion's commander. "None of us is obliged to be here. We want to be here." Similarly, despite reports of widespread draft resistance in Nicaragua, the 1,200 reservists of the less glamorous southern command who were recently summoned to the front in Juigalpa, about 150 miles from the Bocay River, appear...
...Secret Service, and up to 3,000 New York City policemen, as well as State Department security agents and all of the U.N.'s 250-plus police force. The legions of security men will be deployed with the help of a new computer system installed at Assistant Chief Kerins' command post, a 44-ft. trailer parked just north of the U.N. "Security-wise," says FBI Spokesman Joseph Valiquette, "the next two months are going to be a nightmare...