Word: commando
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...still unpublished. But since he returned to the U.S. and finally embraced his father's career as writer and teacher. Charles has broken into print as assistant editor of Fadiman's anthology The American Treasury, and this April Harper's will publish his Lincoln's Commando, a biography on the Union Navy's William B. Gushing, written in collaboration with Ralph H. Roske...
...Cold-shouldered Israeli attempts to commit the U.S., in advance of Tel Aviv's full compliance with U.N. resolutions, to support her demands that in any Mideast settlement Israel be guaranteed free passage through the Suez, protection from further Egyptian commando raids, etc. The State Department, determined that Israel not be rewarded for her attack on Egypt, told the Israeli Foreign Ministry in effect: first things first, i.e., no U.S. commitments until Israel withdraws behind the 1949 armistice lines. On the other side of the ledger, the U.S. Treasury gave no sign of heeding fervent Egyptian requests that...
Developing his concept, Leach suggested that the projected single Armed Force should be divided into strictly mission or functional organizations. In explaining his mission idea, Leach visualized the single Armed Force as being divided into such groups as a long range attack group, an anti-submarine group, a ground-commando group, and a continental defense group. Leach also noted logistical and support units would also be organized...
...Yehudah Nizan and Lt. Col. Israel Meidan of the Israeli army said yesterday that Israel's invasion of Egypt was a self-defensive measure, prompted by Egyptian military buildup and commando activity against Israel...
Above all, the officers said, it is to be hoped that the world will now realize that there was no "peace" in the area. "When economic and commando warfare harrass a nation, that is no peace," stated Lt. Col. Meidan. "We hope," he continued, "the world will now see that Israel desires a true peace, and will fight for it if necessary...