Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running events began, one of the meet's three highlights stirred excitement and hope in the Harvard crowd. Harvard's Kathleen Good and Grace deFries took immediate command of the 1500-meter, leaving the rest of the field behind...
...parliament last week voted, 351 to 219, to back the government of Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi in fulfilling the Italian commitment to accept 112 cruise missiles as its share of the NATO nuclear burden. French President Mitterrand, whose country is not in NATO's military command though it is a member of the political alliance, used much of a 90-minute television broadcast last week to put the blame for the missile crisis squarely on the U.S.S.R. He declared that "the leaders of the Kremlin seek to have a regional advantage and hope that they will perhaps succeed...
...Wednesday, Captain Ahmed Jebril of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a small radical P.L.O. group with close ties to Libya and Syria, held a press conference in Baddawi, soon after the camp's capture by the anti-Arafat forces. Declared Jebril: "We stand today in Arafat's headquarters and command post. We have seen how he ran. Arafat is finished, and he has no alternative but to turn himself in to the revolution inside the P.L.O. so he may receive the punishment he deserves...
...French Super Etendard fighter-bombers from the aircraft carrier Clemenceau staged a 35-minute attack on the same region of the Bekaa Valley, leveling barracks and training bases of the Shi'ite extremists. Among the targets was the ancient city of Baalbek's Khawwam Hotel, the command headquarters of the estimated 1,000 Iranian Islamic revolutionary guards who have been operating in the Bekaa Valley for the past 18 months (see box). The next step could be a retaliatory strike by the U.S., though officials in Washington were undecided about whether the U.S. had more to gain...
...serious comparison. Jumblatt has perhaps 30,000 tribesmen under his command. General Giap had half a million. Two decades ago we may have mistaken Hanoi for a fifth-rate power. Now we recognize that its talent for militarizing society, a talent it shares with other Leninist states, enabled it to achieve the status of a regional superpower. (Today it has the fifth largest armed force in the world.) Jumblatt is at most a small counter on a much larger board...