Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have for decades, much has changed since Douglas W. MacArthur led his class of cadets through the Long Gray Line. No longer can upperclassmen harass plebes throughout meals so they don't get a chance to eat; no longer must plebes be able to spout back on command how many lights there are in Cullen Hall (340); no longer is "silencing" permitted--a form of extreme ostracism and abuse inflicted on those found guilty by their peers of breaking the honor code but absolved by a higher authority...
...Titans' targets are secret, but experts believe that they are aimed at Soviet nuclear missile command centers and perhaps other targets like submarine bases. Explained a defense analyst: "For example, you might know that a Soviet command and control center is in a Soviet mountain, but not exactly where. Titan II's large warhead could be used to dig up the mountain...
...much more parochial and intense. Cleburne County Judge Dan Verser asked at a hearing at Little Rock Air Force Base whether he should worry when warning lights flash and sirens howl at a Titan silo near his farm in Heber Springs, 25 miles east of Damascus. Colonel John Moser, commander of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing at Little Rock, replied that "99 times out of 100" the warnings are caused by equipment failure and "there is no need to evacuate until you're told to evacuate." Moser was quickly overruled by Lieut. General Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr., vice commander...
...year before, Saddam fled to Syria and Egypt. In Cairo he studied law and joined the Baath Party, a revolutionary group of Arab nationalists. He returned to Iraq in 1963, and by the time the Baathists staged their 1968 coup under General Bakr, Saddam had become second in command. He set up his own secret police organization, suppressed all challengers, and soon became the real power in the country...
George Washington took command soon after the initial fighting, and began fortifying the community. The British kept a steady, but ineffectual, fire trained at the colonials as they dug trenches and built walls. The Americans, too short of ammunition to return the fire, instead chased after errant musket balls to recycle them...