Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serve as chairman since the post was created in 1949 have been Army men, including General Earle Wheeler, who has held the post for the past six years. Only one has been an Air Force man, only one an admiral. Now the Navy is going to be in command again. Upon Wheeler's retirement this week, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Thomas Moorer, 58, will take over as chairman...
...spoken admiral has seen some rough sailing in his career. Patrolling the Pacific in his PBY, he was shot down by the Japanese and wounded in the hip. He reached safety only after surviving another Japanese attack. Decorated for his war service, he rose quickly through the ranks, taking command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in 1962, the Pacific Fleet two years later. In 1965 he was named commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, becoming the only Navyman to have commanded both oceans. In 1967 he was named Chief of Naval Operations...
...declared officially completed in ceremonies next month. The civilians live mainly in Cairo's Zamalek district in a community complete with its own school, social club and outdoor movie. Another 3,000 to 4,000 military advisers are assigned to the armed forces at every level of command from artillery crews at the Suez Canal to naval vessels in the Red Sea. "Today the Soviets are in on every decision." an observer commented recently. President Nasser himself boasted in Khartoum last month that "Soviets are serving with our units everywhere." At least a dozen Russian advisers have died...
...years, the U.S. and the Peruvian nationalist junta led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado have been feuding over Peru's seizure of U.S. properties. After an unfortunate initial delay, the U.S. won warm thanks from the Peruvian generals for its effective aid. From the U.S.'s Southern Command in Panama came a 40-man rescue team three days after the quake, and giant Chinook helicopters from the carrier Guam lifted supplies into remote Andean villages that otherwise were completely cut off from the outside world by landslides. Washington also donated $10 million in relief funds...
...action without exactly pinching pennies: Rubin's book Do It! has already earned him $45,000; Hoffman's Revolution for the Hell of It and Woodstock Nation have raked in a cool $75,000 so far. Like other members of the Chicago Seven, they can command lecture fees of several hundred dollars. But for the rank and file of the movement, survival in the society they are working to destroy -and the financing of the machinery to effect that destruction-depends upon a curious combination of primitive-tribal Communism, good Samaritanism, soak-the-sucker capitalism, live...