Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strategic and conventional forces." Both to maintain the strength necessary to make detente work and to protect itself, the U.S. cannot wait for that to happen before acting. New weapons take five to ten years to reach production. General George S. Brown, head of the Air Force Systems Command, points out that in research, "momentum...
...accurate missiles and perhaps even bigger ones. Declares Columbia Professor Emile Benoit, an expert on the economics of defense: "We don't know how much we will spend, and we may be even less secure in the end." Indeed, the 1975 budget request includes about $10 million for a Command Data Buffer System that would allow the U.S. to switch a missile to a new target in 20 minutes. The process, which requires programming each missile's computers, now takes up to 36 hours...
...protest-something that the Kremlin fervently wishes to avoid in an era of detente with the West. Instead, the Soviet leaders have evidently been trying to intimidate Solzhenitsyn into leaving Russia voluntarily. They probably calculate that as one more dissident emigre in the West, Solzhenitsyn would soon cease to command world attention...
Assad's socialist Baath regime maintains a no-compromise position toward Israel, which captured chunks of the Golan Heights in 1967 and extended its gains in the October war. But in secret meetings in Damascus last week, hardliners and moderates in the Baath National Command engaged in fierce debates over how Syria should act. The hardliners, headed by Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, insisted that the cease-fire agreement should be Syria's only concession until Israel withdraws from all occupied territory. The moderates, led by Premier Mahmoud Ayoubi, reportedly were agreeable to a phased Israeli withdrawal...
...have not lost command of yourself, and realize clearly what this could lead to, then, Mr. President, you and I should not now pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the harder you and I pull, the tighter this knot will become...