Word: liaisoning
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Almost immediately, many of the 240 Greek liaison officers stationed at NATO installations throughout Europe packed their bags and started home. Greece's 35,000-man Third Army pulled back from its NATO-assigned position at Greece's Macedonian frontier with Bulgaria (a Warsaw Pact member) and headed eastward to Thrace and the Turkish border...
...entire sensibility-the same cast of imagination that in literature ran from Flaubert's Salammbô to Swinburne and Wilde, heavy with allusions to enigmatic and castrating Fatal Women. Moreau's own work was rich in homosexual overtones, though in fact he kept up a continuous liaison with a woman named Adelaide-Alexandrine Dureux for 25 years...
...control was exercised by Haldeman. He gave his orders to Strachan, his liaison at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, who is currently under indictment for covering up the Watergate burglary. A lot of ordinary and extraordinary campaign decisions were made through a long series of "Political Matter" memos that Haldeman got from Strachan; Haldeman indicated a preferred course of action in specific situations by placing the initial H next to an alternative...
...gaze of Northern Command General Raphael ("Ra-ful") Eitan he shimmied up to the top of the mast while the armor, paratroop and infantry formation stood at attention, fixed the tangled halyard, and then, to the roll of a drum, brought down the Star of David. Murmured an Israeli liaison officer, "Seems we can put up flags faster than we can take them down." During the brief withdrawal ceremony, Eitan addressed the men. "This hill is a symbol both for us and for the Syrians. At this place, the closest we reached to Damascus, we overcame the enemy. We have...
...Windsor, gave up his throne in 1936 to marry American Divorcee Wallis Simpson. For his brother King George VI, Gloucester undertook a spate of ceremonial chores and overseas good-will missions; he also indulged his passion for riding, fox hunting and polo. After serving as a high-ranking liaison officer in World War II, he spent a few years as an unpopular Governor General of Australia. Following the coronation of his niece Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, he continued to make the rounds as official emissary of the House of Windsor...