Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition is more sacred and vital to the U.S.-or any democracy -than the supremacy of civilian authority over the military. Limited wars such as Korea and Viet Nam put unusual strain on the bonds of the tradition. In Korea, it cost General Douglas MacArthur his command; in Viet Nam, it led General William Westmoreland to liken his job to fighting with one hand tied behind his back. But until General John Lavelle, Viet Nam had produced no outright defiance of presidential strictures on the conduct...
...August 1971, Lavelle took command of all U.S. Air Force units in the Viet Nam conflict. Nervous, not very personable, he nonetheless was respected for his tenacious concern for the welfare of his men. When he arrived, the North Vietnamese were well along within their borders on the massive buildup for last April's all-out offensive. Lavelle's air reconnaissance crews provided a regular flow of reports and photographs chronicling its progress. A veteran Air Force "tiger" who flew 76 combat missions in World War II, Lavelle, 55, decided he could not sit idly by while Hanoi...
...found Lavelle was indeed exceeding his command authority. Wilson specifically pinpointed 147 sorties into North Viet Nam by Lavelle's planes in violation of the war's Rules of Engagement. The bombings had been reported as protective reaction strikes when, in fact, there had been no enemy firings, and Lavelle was choosing his own targets. There may well have been many more than the 147 the inspector general identified: during the four months in question, Lavelle's planes reported 1,300 protective reaction strikes...
...prologue to the Stravinsky/Craft Retrospectives and Conclusions, with the composer still eating crayfish "at an alarming rate," but this time in Paris. "For some of us," wrote the Times's music critic Donal Henahan, "Robert Craft has dissipated his credibility as historian and biographer, though he may still command our admiration as the Georgette Heyer or Thomas B. Costain of musical history...
...nations: Switzerland, Japan and the U.S. As usual, the Swiss dominate, with export sales of $650 million last year, a total that amounted to nearly four-fifths of world exports. But the Swiss have been losing ground to the Japanese, whose watches generally are of somewhat lower quality and command lower prices than the Swiss. Last year Japanese watchmakers accounted for $106 million in exports, and their sales jumped 10% in Europe and 50% in the U.S. Meanwhile, U.S. manufacturers, led by Timex and Bulova, produced 20 million watches last year, but sold only a fraction of them abroad...