Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman of a twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council, Gaddafi has given his country his own special brand of nationalist revolution. He quickly ousted the Americans and British from their Libyan airbases, but he has also been consistently anti-Soviet. He expelled not only the 25,000 descendants of Italian colonialists who were still living in Libya but also threatened to ship home 21,000 Italian bodies that had been buried there over the years. He ordered that all signs and documents be written only in Arabic...
Little was left to chance. The much feared security command, KOPKAMTIB, ordered Indonesia's 125 million citizens to refrain from violence or even controversy. As a special precaution against the spreading of untoward ideas, Mission Impossible and The Untouchables were temporarily banned from the nation's air waves. Then the 920 delegates to the People's Consultative Assembly, a military-dominated body whose deliberations take the place of national elections, gathered in Jakarta's high-domed amphitheater to select Indonesia's President for the next five years...
More animals appeared in the commericals Pierce analyzed than blacks. No blacks were shown in a position of command and only once did a black speak in a commercial and "his line did not even consist of a complete sentence...
Except for those two command posts, Gray spent most of his 20-year naval career in highly responsible positions as an aide to a higher officer. While an adviser on tactics and training for the Atlantic submarine fleet, he wrote speeches for the admiral of the fleet. At his retirement in 1960 he was assistant to Air Force General Nathan Twining, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Admiral Arleigh Burke, then Chief of Naval Operations, tried to talk Gray into remaining in the Navy, but, Burke recalls, "he was all steamed up about helping Nixon...
...growers said nothing about a representation election. Last December, the California Supreme Court upheld the farm union's charge that the Teamsters and the growers had conspired to sabotage the U.F.W., opening the way for Chavez to resume his organizing program. But the Teamsters still claim command of 30,000 farm workers, and forcing them out will be tough...