Word: command
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After Saddam's threat, the Israeli military command -- which is all too aware that Iraqi missiles are only five minutes from Tel Aviv -- quickly put its forces on an even higher state of alert. Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We are preparing to forestall the threat, prevent it and if, heaven forbid, he does in fact attack, to retaliate...
...remember coming to see Stalin at the beginning of the war at the High Command Headquarters on Myasnitskaya Street. He was by then a sack of bones in a gray tunic. He asked me, "How's it going...
...Pentagon, the Defense Secretary's next call was to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, advising--but not asking--him of the decision to fire Dugan. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft tried to defuse Dugan's comments by noting that "the general is not in the chain of command," but Iraq did not seem to need mollifying. The general's statement, announced Radio Baghdad, "will neither shake the leaves of Iraqi palm trees nor waken a sleeping girl...
Iraq, however, showed signs of digging in for a prolonged confrontation. It reportedly increased its forces in and around Kuwait to 360,000 men and 2,800 tanks. In addition, Iraq stepped up the stridency of its rhetoric. Though Baghdad officials insisted Iraq would not strike first, the Revolutionary Command Council predicted "the mother of all battles" and denounced the "dwarfs led by Bush and his two servants ((King)) Fahd and Hosni ((Mubarak))." Saddam conceded that the U.S. is "the No. 1 superpower" but added that, nonetheless, "we are confident that we can hurt America" in a war with Iraq...
...fruitful negotiations remains dim: Taylor declared that his "government" was the only legitimate one and that he would "fight any attempt to install another one." The truce should at least afford some breathing space for the five-nation West African contingent, which has suffered from a confused chain of command...