Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message to the general in beleaguered Dacca. "The game is up. I suggest you give yourself up to me and I'll look after you." The author of that soothing appeal was India's Major General Gandharv Nagra. The recipient was Lieut. General A.A.K. ("Tiger") Niazi, commander of Pakistan's 60,000 troops in East Bengal and a onetime college classmate of Nagra's. Minutes before the expiration of India's cease-fire demand, Niazi last week bowed to the inevitable. By United Nations radio, he informed the Indian command that he was prepared...
...strong defense in battalion-plus strength in three garrison towns where Indian forces reportedly had encircled them. The Indians have yet to capture the major cities of Chittagong and Dinajpur. Neither army permitted newsmen unreserved access to the contested areas, but on several occasions the Indian military command did allow reporters to accompany its forces. The three pronged Indian pincer movement, however, moved much more rapidly than was earlier believed possible. Its success was largely attributed to decisive air and naval support...
...certain death awaits you." He also assured the Pakistanis that if they surrendered they would be treated as prisoners of war according to the Geneva convention. To insure that the Mukti Bahini would also adhere to the Geneva code, India officially put the liberation forces under its military command...
...Northern troops would have to sweep only 30 miles to take Seoul "in a Sinai-style surprise attack." But in Washington, the State Department reacted with polite astonishment. "We have no evidence that an attack is imminent," a spokesman said, and his view was privately seconded by United Nations Command sources in Korea...
...graduated from the University of Maine and has a doctorate in education from Harvard. He first came to the attention of politicians and educators in the early 1960s, when, as superintendent in Englewood, N.J., he successfully cooled the racial tensions that flared over school integration. In 1967 he took command of the school system of the nation's fourth largest city...