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...controlled vice in Saigon. Blunt, athletic and honest, he was given the sobriquet "Big" by U.S. military advisers because he was unusually large for a Vietnamese-nearly 6 ft. tall and 200 Ibs. Minh impressed Diem and in 1958 was appointed the first boss of a field-operations command that coordinated the mounting war against the Viet Cong guerrillas. While in this post, Minh gradually became critical of Diem's arbitrary ways; he also noted a lack of popular support in the struggle against the Communists...
...Politburo of the ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party. He was born to a peasant family in Ha Dong province in the North, joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and spent about five years in a French prison before escaping to China in 1944. A year later he took command of Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta and in 1946 was made responsible for the political indoctrination of all Viet Minh troops. Dong is considered the man most likely to succeed the ailing Giap, who has been treated for cancer in Moscow...
Whether Spinola planned it or not, I don't know. However, it was he who took command of the operation. And it was he who gave the preliminary orders to the forces that attacked Lisbon. If he were a person with little or no experience in military affairs, I could believe that he was tricked. But Spinola was a soldier of long experience who had taken part in many actions, and it is inconceivable that he would be drawn unwillingly into an action like that...
Most significant for a global fleet, Okean 1975 tested "command and control" communications networks employing satellites and satellite relay. Using a mixture of very high and very low frequencies and linking even submerged submarines, the Russian navy apparently achieved near-instant communications. That would be a considerable asset in Gorshkov's "first salvo" concept, in which scattered Soviet fleets are supposed to undertake simultaneous attacks within a 90-second period...
...Northeastern squad took command in the second half by scoring three unanswered goals before Barb Matson fed one into the net. Matson scored once more before game's end, and was the only Crimson player to score in the second half...