Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last two decades witnessed the transformation of the Soviet Union from a Eurasian power to an intercontinental one. The U.S.S.R. now possesses military capabilities far beyond those at the command of previous Soviet leaders. In earlier periods our strategic superiority gave us a margin of safety. Now, however, the growth of Soviet power could tempt Soviet leaders into bolder challenges. It could lead them to underestimate the risks of certain policies. The existing military balance does not permit us to judge the significance of Soviet actions only by what they say-or even what we believe-are their intentions...
...morning, he summoned Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, 41, his nation's most decorated and best-known soldier, to the presidential palace in Saigon. Then he told Tri that the job was his. The two men briefly discussed precisely how and when Tri would take over command of Lam Son 719 from I Corps commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam. After the talk, Tri boarded his helicopter to see how his troops were faring in their other outcountry incursion, a drive through Communist sanctuaries in southeastern Cambodia. Barely 2½ hours later, the body...
...often rated as ARVN's best fighting general, and his feats of personal bravery became legend. During last May's campaign in Cambodia, Tri frequently swooped down in his chopper to take personal command of a unit in trouble. On one occasion, after the man standing next to him was killed by an enemy shell, the plucky general leaped aboard an armored personnel carrier and urged it toward the source of the gunfire, shouting, "Forward, forward...
Sovere fighting continued yesterday in southern Laos and eight U. S. helicopters flying support for South Vietnamese troops were shot down, the U. S. Command reported. It was the largest loss of helicopters in a single day since the Laotian invasion began on February...
...Command also reported that North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles were directed against American aircraft over South Vietnamese territory for the first time yesterday...