Word: marshalled
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Eighty-Four seniors met yesterday's 3 p.m. deadline for submitting nominating petitions for next week Class Marshal elections. This total is up five from last year's pool...
Four men and four women will be elected Marshals by their classmates in a two-week voting process that, for the first time, will coincide with elections for the Undergraduate Council. Like the Council elections, the Marshal ballotting will use the Hare Proportional Representation system, in which voters rank candidates in order of preference...
Judging from the way the Soviet press covered the news, it seemed more likely that Ogarkov had been abruptly sacked and left in limbo. The official army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ran a large photograph and biography of the new Chief of Staff, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, 61, on the front page and relegated Ogarkov to a few lines of tiny print. Pravda buried the announcement of his departure on the back page...
...pragmatic professional, Ogarkov joined the army the year before World War II began and rose in the ranks to become his country's highest military officer in 1977. The marshal is known to have clashed on several occasions with the conservative Soviet military establishment, and the consensus among the British government's top Soviet specialists was that he had fallen from grace primarily because of a longstanding dispute over weaponry. Ogarkov, they said, had strongly argued the case for concentrating Soviet efforts on the development of advanced weapons that could match the American arsenal, while the majority...
Some U.S. analysts speculate that the marshal may have got the boot because he was too staunch an advocate of arms-control negotiations with the U.S. Ogarkov served as the Soviet Union's chief military representative to the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks at a time when the Soviet leadership was convinced of the need to check American advances in weaponry at the negotiating table. Ogarkov is thought to have pushed for the start of talks in Vienna this fall on limiting the arms race in space, but he may have run up against opposition from...