Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...currently serving a tour of duty in the Pentagon, has been accused by helicopter pilots and some of those who flew with him of murdering perhaps six Vietnamese in Quang Ngai province late in 1968. The officer in question, a West Point graduate, was an infantry brigade commander at the time; he was supposedly scouting the area in his Huey command helicopter when he did the shooting, taking potshots at Vietnamese peasants on the ground below. He has admitted the killings in private, making a fine distinction between innocent civilians and possible Communists by saying he shot those who "took...
...government and the Left occur against the background of the massive demonstrations in Mexico City preceding the 1968 Olympics and the massacre that ended them. At one time, an estimated half-million persons were in the city's streets demonstrating against the government. On October 2 troops under the command of then Minister of the Interior Echeverria suddenly opened fire on demonstrators, killing more than 500 in what had the appearance of a highly organized ambush. After the "2 de Octubre Massacre" virtually all open Mexican radical activity ceased. From it, Echeverria gained his reputation as a master of political...
...members will be pledged to joint defense and will also have the right to intervene in the affairs of the other states to prevent a coup d'etat. The three nations and their 42 million people are ultimately supposed to have one President, one flag, one military command and, of course, one enemy: Israel...
...woodblock print and a small abstract graphic print. In the woodblock, a female figure inclined upon a table in the foreground gazes backwards towards a checkerboard avenue overhung with intertwined branches of menacing black trees. Entitled "Playroom," it suggests mystery and romance, foreboding and longing. Especially admirable for its command of intent, the print is reminiscent, in the swift and clawing strokes winding around the woman's body, of certain German expressionists in its boldness and control. Heidi Pape's etching, composed of related, textured, angular and soft-cornered forms hovering and melting together, yields an impression of soft, lithe...
...first time in years, a man capable of becoming a great and serious classical actor has appeared on the U.S. stage. Richard Chamberlain has a magnetic presence that holds an audience in thrall. Unlike most U.S. actors, he has an unforced command of the Shakespearean line. His delivery is intelligent, inflectively exact, and he conducts his voice as if it were an orchestra of verse. Chamberlain is inordinately handsome and bears himself with regal authority which makes him seem all the more a potential new Barrymore...