Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over routes and calling his wife only from a pay phone near their Bronx home. Agents spotted him in Camden in June, noted that he had been keeping the courthouse under surveillance, and started keeping an eye on him. Their observations also revealed that Grady had set up his command post in the home of Dr. William Anderson, a Camden osteopath who surrendered to the FBI the day after the roundup...
...reduction in Galley's sentence was announced at Fort McPherson outside Atlanta, where Charlie Company's commander, Captain Ernest L. Medina, is in the second week of his long-awaited court-martial. Army prosecutors are attempting to convict Medina of command responsibility for what went on in the ill-fated village. Relaxed and apparently unconcerned as the men who once served under him take the stand to testify for the prosecution, Medina passes his courtroom time drawing doodles of the newsmen covering his trial. As Medina and Calley await the results of the legal proceedings against them...
...Londonderry. When 1,300 British troops attempted to dismantle the recently rebuilt Derry barricades, which since 1969 have symbolized the Catholics' determination to defend themselves, residents responded with rioting and random rifle fire. Two moderate M.P.s, trying to restore order, were arrested for "failing to move on the command of a member of Her Majesty's forces." Next day, 30 leading Londonderry Catholics resigned from civic bodies in a total withdrawal of the city's Catholic community from public life...
Died. Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm List, 91, the Nazi Blitzkriegmeister who for a time was one of Hitler's favorite field commanders; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The stony-faced strategist engineered the fall of Greece and Yugoslavia, earning the title "Balkan Conqueror." Though Hitler personally selected him in 1942 to take command of German forces in the Caucasus, List concluded that the Russian campaign was futile and was sacked. Given a life sentence as a war criminal, he was released after only four years in prison...
...some quarters, there is scant pity for the fallen stars. "My heart doesn't bleed for the guy who was making $100,000 and is reduced to $40,000," says one screenwriter. Few worry that Charlton Heston, who used to command a cool million a picture, now has to make do with $300,000. "There aren't stars any more. We're all up for grabs," says Sally Kellerman, who made her name in MASH, but lives in a "regular-size house with not enough view to be depressing. From here...