Word: command
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...surprise Iraqi announcements came in a communique from Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council, which is headed by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The communique came after what Iraqi media had earlier said was an overnight session of the country's ruling five-man council...
Harvard University's presidential search committee may be the only organization in the world with tighter controls on information than the U.S. military command in the Persian Gulf...
...Allied warplanes destroyed what the U.S. called a military command center. Iraq claims it was an underground shelter and reports 500 civilian casualties...
...generals keep straight the tens of thousands of details involved in organizing up to 3,000 missions a day? "We have a lot of computers," says Lieut. General Charles Horner, the allied air commander. The exact number of machines is unknown, but a Texas supply house reports that Central Command gave it a rush order last month for 1,300 desktop computers, 1,300 laser printers, 350 laptops, 10 local-area networks and an assortment of peripheral equipment (including dust covers and cleaning kits) with a delivery date of "no later than...
...disputes which side has more muscle. The deployment of paratroops in Lithuania and black berets in Latvia has shown the range of powers at the command of what former presidential adviser Stanislav Shatalin calls the "black colonels" now surrounding Gorbachev. This is a reference to a conservative clique of officers in the Soviet parliament who opposed Shevardnadze. Their growing influence has been reflected in fiddling with weapons limits in defiance of the Conventional Arms Agreement signed in Paris last year, and in an increasingly obstinate stance on the timetable for Soviet troop withdrawals from Eastern Europe. The major obstacle...