Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That may sound like barracks griping, but Klapp, a Viet Nam veteran, was in dead earnest. He charged the Army with false advertising and claimed he had a right to quit. Understandably miffed, the chain of command processed Klapp's papers as slowly as it well knows how. Yet Klapp persevered and won an honorable discharge, a full three years before his hitch...
...handle such challenges. Apparently fed up with the bureau's internal bickering, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton last week fired Commissioner Louis Bruce, Deputy Commissioner John Crow and Harrison Loesch, Assistant Secretary for Public Land Management. As an interim measure, Morton named an assistant, Richard Bodman, to take command...
...however, exploded to score two goals in the space of a minute and nearly got the go-ahead goal, as they put the pressure on the Harvard skaters. McManama capitalized on Harvard's second man-advantage situation with an assist from Dave Hynes, to put the Crimson back in command. B.C. again put the pressure on and tied the game with less than three minutes in the period...
...ambitious mission, as planned, will require two command ships, each carrying a crew of six. If one craft becomes disabled, the other can safely return all of the astronauts to earth. Unlike lunar missions, the journey will not begin directly from earth; that would require boosters too huge to be practical. Instead, the two cylindrical ships will be lofted piecemeal into earth orbit by Saturn-type boosters. There, the separate parts will be latched together. Finally, a space shuttle will bring up the astronauts as well as their fuel and supplies...
...conditions for political talks are unacceptable to the British: a declaration of British intent to quit Northern Ireland, withdrawal of troops to their barracks, and a general amnesty. The British government is no longer interested, and not only out of fear of infuriating the Protestants. The Northern Ireland army command claims that more than 182 I.R.A. officers and men have been arrested since July, a total that could only rise with the prospect ahead of more arrests in the South...