Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy bombing raids. Their main target this time: the port of Haiphong, which had been off limits for U.S. planes since President Lyndon Johnson cut back the bombing of North Viet Nam four years ago. The planes dropped their bomb loads on fuel dumps, warehouses and, as the U.S. command in Saigon put it in an all-embracing phrase, "other activities which are supporting the invasion of South Viet Nam by North Vietnamese forces...
...unreal sense of well-being extended even to a dark, sandbagged burrow on the town's south side where ARVN Major, Tran Ai Quoc, had set up a command post. As his battery of radios crackled in the background, Quoc reported that the situation around the town was quiet. It had better be. His retinue of lieutenants and enlisted men had been drinking Ba Muoi Ba brand beer and De Kuyper crème de menthe. An attack then would have been a disaster...
...family, in New York Mafia usage, is a gang of from 75 to 1,000 men, all of Italian descent, who are bound by a loyalty oath of blood and fire and organized into regimes, or squads, under the command of capos, who in turn take their orders from the underboss and the boss. Family members are often but not necessarily related by blood...
...that Hackman's star status could command a wide range of roles, he plans to keep right on doing character parts. He will play an aging Midwestern dirt racer in Good Luck, Roy Neal, which will start shooting in July. Next he has his eye on a script about a fireman. In another ten years, he maintains, he may quit acting altogether. "I want to relax, paint, read and maybe even write," he says. "I don't see myself as a distinguished old actor." Perhaps not, but if that Marine captain were to turn up again...
Going Public. Once a worker decides to speak up, how should he go about it? Ralph Nader advises him first to "appeal internally" to his superiors, moving up the chain of command until he produces results. If he runs into a dead end, and if the consequences of continued wrong practice "will result in further injury, fraud or other corporate or governmental crime against consumers," a worker should go public-by contacting the press, his Congressman or his Senator. Nader cautions dissident employees to resist resigning from the company if at all possible. "If you go," he asks, "who remains...