Word: command
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...taking out Musawi, Israel's leaders knew that they risked diplomatic opprobrium -- as well as retaliation from Hizballah. So why did they hit him? Before Musawi took command of Hizballah in mid-1991, he was a member of its military command, which Israel holds responsible for such atrocities as the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Still, Israel entertained hopes that he might pursue a more moderate course, since he had close ties to Iran's more pragmatic leaders. But attacks by his militia on Israeli targets only increased. After two previous failed attempts on his life...
...coup makers, the shock was that their move generated so little support. The military high command stood with the government; and the Venezuelan people showed that despite their unhappiness with the economy, they were not ready to give up on democracy. Still, some Venezuelans were concerned that the people did not turn out to demonstrate their support for the government or at least their rejection of military coups. In a straw poll taken after the coup, the opposition paper El Nacional found that most citizens rejected the idea of a dictatorship -- but thought the country's democratic system has lost...
SINCE THE COUNCIL has such little power on campus, its shenanigans should per haps not command much attention. But as Lyndon B. Johnson used to say of his own presidency, it's the only thing we've got. So we offer a few recommendations...
When East German border guard Ingo Heinrich killed a man fleeing toward the freedom of West Berlin in February 1989, Heinrich was just following orders. "Shoot to kill" was the command for dealing with people who tried to escape across the border, and in the eyes of Heinrich's supervisors his actions were not merely legal but commendable. Three years later, Heinrich, 27, lives in the same Berlin, but a different government holds sway and new laws prevail. Now he is, retroactively, a felon. Last week he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison -- specifically...
...denials played through the print media's filter. "Too little control of how it goes over," explained a Clinton aide. "The only way out is through television." With 60 Minutes' post-Super Bowl audience expected to approach 100 million people, the state of the Clintons' union was certain to command a greater viewership than George Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday, a speech sure to be one of the most politically significant of his career...