Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what the soldiers had done. They denied that any shots had been fired at the troops before the killing began. The militant Provisional wing of the I.R.A., which vowed revenge, inferentially admitted that it had been involved in the later stages of battle. But the I.R.A.'s Derry command issued a statement: "At no time did any of our units open fire on the British army prior to the army's opening fire." The statement added that the Derry command had specifically "ordered all weapons out of the total march area" that Sunday morning in order to avoid...
During the eight hours he held command of the plane, Trapnell demanded that he be allowed to talk to President Nixon, TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast, and his lawyer in Miami; that he be given the precise sum of $306,800, the amount he lost in a lawsuit when the Federal Government took away a marina he owned; that he be flown to Dallas to see a psychiatrist; and that Angela Davis and a Dallas County prisoner named George Padilla, a friend, be released. Padilla told his Dallas jailers, "I'm not going anywhere with him. He's nuts...
...command in Saigon is forever fending off ARVN demands for more complex gear. One U.S. general tells of having to lecture some Vietnamese generals at a recent Saigon dinner. "I told them that in 1968, General Vo Nguyen Giap [the Communist Defense Minister] had a regiment right here in Saigon. He had no helicopters, no F-4s, no MIGs, no B-52s. 'Now,' I said, 'he's Vietnamese too. So how do you suppose General Giap solved his logistics problems?' They said they really didn't know, so I told them that the most...
...bombing attacks, the government of Prime Minister Brian Faulkner has stepped up the internment campaign. So far this year, 250 suspects have been rounded up, as many as had been detained in the previous three months. Among the new prisoners are three key officers of the Belfast I.R.A. command. There are now so many suspects in detention that Britain recently opened up a fourth camp near the Irish Republic border, and British officers are confident that they are gradually winning the war against the gunmen. "The rate of attrition is steadily increasing," says Faulkner. "The I.R.A. is being crippled...
Mauldin continued to lampoon the brass. The top command thought, correctly as it happened, that Willie and Joe were morale boosters, and even Patton could not touch them. Far from being incitements to mutiny, they were escape valves for the frustrations of the ordinary soldier. Mauldin's humor was often biting, but it was never mean...