Word: commandant
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...East Room of the White House, placed his hand upon his eldest son's Bible, and repeated the presidential oath "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." By the time the 37th President of the U.S. arrived at the Pacific, the 38th President had taken command of a new Administration...
...first time in his life, Kissinger descended into a 90-ft. silo and gazed at a 75,000-lb. Minuteman III, the newest and largest American ICBM (range: 7,000 miles). After watching a simulated firing in an underground command center, Kissinger emerged and remarked that the world of payloads, throw weight and delivery systems had been largely an "abstraction" to him up until now. Coming face to face with the real thing had clearly been a sobering experience for the onetime Harvard professor who made his reputation with a book entitled Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy...
...never admired him more. How he can take all of this I don't know, but you can be with him and never know anything is wrong. He's like a general who has lost the war but still stands at the command post, directing the troops...
Only three were acquitted by the court-martial, which consisted of seven air force officers. The sentences will be reviewed by the chief of the air force combat command, General José Berdichewsky, and finally by Pinochet; either man could reduce them...
...company of Portuguese troops led by their field commander has deserted to join Frelimo. The troops, based at Macossa, about 80 km from Vila de Gouveia, Central Mozambique, have drawn up a manifesto which has been sent to the Portuguese High Command in Nampula. The Manifesto tells High Command that the company has joined Frelimo as "the only valid party in this country...