Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of a decade. Stocky, garrulous and indefatigable, Alfonsin, 56, has brought a shudder of excitement to a citizenry long inured to monochromatic military men and ineffectual demagogues steeped in the mythology of Juan Perón. Alfonsin has also projected an image of forcefulness and competence necessary to command his unruly nation...
Officers at District B headquarters, which Johnson will continue to command until he assumes his Harvard position on December 6th, referred queries to Commissioner of Police Joseph Jordan...
Johnson was under attack from community leaders in the areas of Roxbury and Dorchester that were under his command. The Globe reported, because the police were unable to stem the area's large drug trade. The community sources reportedly attributed the failure to Johnson's inability to work well with his subordinates...
...chief denied that he ever had any trouble with subordinates and said he accepted the top position at Harvard because of its merits, not because he felt he had to. "I don't know where that came from," Johnson said, referring to the alleged problems with officers under his command. "I never had any problems with subordinates at all," he added...
...preparing to manufacture a provocation that would justify an invasion. The revitalization of a Central American defense alliance known as CONDECA might serve as the vehicle to launch an American attack. The military chiefs of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala secretly met with the head of the U.S. Southern Command a month ago in Guatemala and agreed that the aims of CONDECA included "the use of force against Marxism." Edgar Chamorro, a leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the largest of the CIA-backed contra groups, predicts that the O.E.C.S.-sponsored invasion of Grenada will serve as a model...