Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experts in inventory systems and personnel management, will be needed to help the ARVN move supplies that the U.S. has promised to furnish the Saigon government. ADVISORY PERSONNEL, now numbering nearly 80,000, will be reduced by about half. Most of the cuts will be made at the lower command levels; instead of being assigned to every ARVN battalion, U.S. advisers will no longer operate below the regiment or brigade level. Wherever possible, major generals will be replaced by brigadier generals, brigadiers by colonels. Their staffs will be reduced accordingly. As South Vietnamese commanders become more confident, the advisers...
...beleaguered airstrip at Uli. The refugees were loaded aboard a Superconstellation that took off for a destination that had still not been disclosed a full week later; various reports placed Ojukwu in Lisbon; Libreville, capital of Gabon; and the Ivory Coast. His flight left Effiong in command of a crumbling region, desperately short of food and medicine and totally shorn of the will to continue its doomed rebellion...
...return, are there not sufficient legal and business talents at Harvard's command to negotiate an agreement that could serve both Harvard's and the City's needs without undue risk? I cannot believe that the University is so devoid of competence...
...find a market for their rejected designs. Boeing's chief, William Allen, decided to risk what turned out to be $1 billion in turning the military reject into a commercial success. Pan American's founder, Juan Trippe, who had ordered the first 707s a decade before, was still in command. He backed Allen by placing the first order for 25 of the 747s and taking an option for more...
...Indeed he was. The next day, Lawrence was taken before Colonel Robert M. Cook, inspector-general of the U.S. Military Assistance Command Viet Nam (MACV). After denying him legal counsel, Cook escorted Lawrence to the Orwellian atmosphere of an "interrogation room," complete with blanketed walls, tape recorders and (for purposes unknown) a mattress on the floor. As he resisted persistent questioning, Lawrence said: "I don't believe this is happening...