Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Base in North Dakota. It was perilously near the wind-chill factor of 65° F below -the point at which ground crews are excused from outdoor maintenance. Seven BUFFS and three KC-135 tankers were scheduled to roar aloft at 7 a.m., just as 390 other Strategic Air Command planes took the air, in less than ten minutes, from 69 other bases in the continental U.S. and Guam. The mission: a simulated launch in the face of a Soviet missile attack, part of a readiness exercise called Global Shield. It was the biggest mass launch...
...point he prepared briefings that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara presented to the President and the National Security Council. Once the major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam began, Haig decided to heed the old maxim that no Army officer can rise to the top without experience in combat command, which he lacked despite some brief battle experience in Korea. He went to Viet Nam in 1966 and the next year led a battalion to victory in the battle of Ap Gu, one of the major engagements in the biggest American offensive of the time. It was a classic Viet...
...fearsome reputation mainly through its willingness to follow orders. Troopers are never based in their home provinces, in order to prevent the kind of personal involvement that might make them reluctant to use force. The 58,000-man Guardia Civil is part of the army and is under the command of an army general, but its basic function is police work...
...gene splicing may eventually be able to accomplish, the debate has become moot. Chief Justice Warren Burger himself acknowledged this when he declared, in the 1980 patent decision, that no one will be able to "deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides." What both the public and scientists can do is to ensure that this insatiable inquisitiveness is channeled to serve the common good. So far, the proud record of gene splicers seems to bear out the hope that it will...
...directly manipulating the genes?those tiny command posts of heredity that tell living cells whether they will become bacteria, toads or men. Thus a plant or animal might acquire a characteristic from a totally unrelated species and pass this new trait on to future generations...