Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret that several officers in the U.S. command's secret information-gathering center in Saigon keep Japanese-made "laughing bags" on their desks. The little battery-operated noise boxes emit an 18-second burst of hysterical laughter at the push of a button. Officers have been known to push the button during working hours-quite possibly in response to the latest batch of statistics to arrive from the battlefields or hamlets of Indochina...
...Laos yesterday, the fighting was limited to a few Marine skirmishes south west of the Laotian border. The U. S. command reported that five more American helicopters were shot down over the weekend, raising the total...
...during a government investigation of his wealth, he attempted suicide. One of the sponsors of the inquiry was Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, then head of the air force. The two men became bitter enemies, and though they often saw each other at official functions after Tri resumed military command in 1967, they never shook hands...
...Problems. China's move to deploy a missile force under the command of its secrecy-shrouded Second Artillery Corps has come much later than outside experts originally expected. The Chinese successfully fired a nuclear-tipped missile with a range of up to 700 miles from their Shuangchengtzu test site in 1966, but after that, all they hit were problems-with guidance systems, with warhead miniaturization and with the Cultural Revolution. The program picked up again as the Cultural Revolution waned and as bloody battles with Soviet border forces began to break out along the Ussuri River in 1969. Last...
...infects him with a fondness for fascism. After the war, under the gullible noses of the family's financial advisers, he transfers huge sums of money to Europe. Then, poof! . . . he disappears, to reappear in Zurich as surgically deformed Heinrich Kroeger, intimate of the German high command, the center of an international backer's dozen of tycoons who are underwriting Hitler. U.S. intelligence, with help from his abandoned wife and widowed mother, pursues Scarlatti through the capitals of the world, encountering murder, madness and megalomania among the high and the mighty. The plot is pure kitsch, but does...