Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crucial Command. The most note worthy transfer was of Li Te-sheng, 61, the army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area...
...implicit in Solzhenitsyn's call for the punishment of the more than 250,000 people that he estimates are guilty of the crimes he details in his book. Responsibility reaches far beyond former concentration-camp guards. By implication, myriad Soviet bureaucrats in the entire present-day chain of command are culpable. Recalling the punishment inflicted on prisoners like himself, Solzhenitsyn writes of those accountable: "We must be generous and not shoot them . . . not grip their skulls in steel bands, not shut them up where they will lie on each other like baggage. No, none of that should be done...
Broadway is a noble word again. Power, beauty, passion and truth command the stage of the Morosco Theater where A Moon for the Misbegotten has been revived in unmitigated triumph. We owe it all to the sensitive direction of Jose Quintero, the matchless performances of Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst and Ed Flanders and the piercing vision of Eugene O'Neill, who could laugh over humanity's impish follies and grieve over the sad agony of man's fate...
...opposition since 1948. Born 60 years ago in Brest Litovsk, Begin (pronounced Bay-ghin) came to Palestine with the Polish Army in 1942 and soon set up an anti-British terrorist organization, the Irgun Zvai Leumi. Among the Irgun's acts of savagery under his command were the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, the hanging of two British sergeants, and the massacre of at least 254 Arab civilians in the village of Dir Yassin in 1948. Today Begin is better known for his expansionist belief that his country should absorb all those parts...
...sighting marks were daubed on a wall across the street so the terrorists would know when to trigger the explosives. There were two assassins. One peered through the window and gave directions through a walkie-talkie; at his command, the other pressed the plunger. The identity of these men has not been announced by the police-and is presumably still unknown...