Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only has respect for the legal process been weakened and the critics of the military judicial system been given support for their claims of command influence, the image of Lieutenant Calley, a man convicted of the premeditated murder of at least 22 unarmed and unresisting people, as a national hero has been enhanced...
...after the arduous trek to Aqaba and its swift conquest, the film's Lawrence loses heart in the desert campaign. He sees himself as unfit for military command-not out of military considerations, but because of his failure to live up to his own personal vision. He is part Arab and part English, and only a superman would be able to bridge that cultural gap. Lawrence, with a fear of bloodshed which does not control his erratic sadism, and a masochism which is brought to the surface when he is tortured at the hands of a homosexual Turkish...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced American troops in Indochina now number 296,500, equal to the troop level four-and-a-half years ago. The peak level was 513,000 troops in April 1969. The total is due to drop...
...base-one of them stark naked, snared in the perimeter wire. U.S. casualties? The first thing Schulte noticed was that "there were very few people who could walk." All twelve officers had been killed or wounded, and an enlisted man with the equivalent rank of buck sergeant had assumed command. Only at daybreak did the full extent of the massacre become clear. The official count, which seemed on the low side to some officials, was 33 dead and 76 wounded of 200 Americans. Of the 28 South Vietnamese troops in the base -which was in the process of being Vietnamized...
...Command disclosed yesterday the second "protective reaction" air strike inside North Vietnam in three days, the 22nd this year...