Word: commandant
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...magic of the new technology is that it allows the candidate to identify and respond to the demands of the electorate as never before. At the push of a button, he can command a list of the names of voters who support him-and thus require only his limited attention-or a "sway" list of independent and undecided voters, who should get more of his time. Properly programmed, the computer can identify subgroups by occupation, ethnic origin, even hobbies, then dispatch "personal" letters, circulars or telephone messages as needed. Surveys have shown that personal messages, even when identified as coming...
...Signal. Last week, for five straight days, U.S. fighter-bombers, directed from a command center at Udorn airbase in Thailand, braved poor weather and wicked antiaircraft fire to fly hundreds of sorties against missile sites, airfields, supply depots, staging areas, and other targets in North Viet Nam's southern panhandle. It was by far the longest and roughest of the more than 100 strikes, large and small, that American aircraft carried out on the North in 1971. With a tight news embargo temporarily in effect in Washington and Saigon, the few emerging details of the operation came from Hanoi...
...British command announced that children playing with toy guns run the risk of being shot. The reason for the statement was that children in Ulster these days sometimes carry real guns...
...salesman and as an employee of the Gaelic Athletic Association but devoted most of his time to the movement. Although I.R.A. units in the North are responsible for tactical decisions, MacStiofáin as chief of staff is consulted on overall strategy. He neither drinks nor smokes, and his command presence is unmistakable. A fervent nationalist who would impose Gaelic on Ireland as its sole language if he had his way, MacStiofáin is ferociously anti-British. "I have always accepted the inevitability of force," he says in his incongruously flat London accent. "I could never...
...Mexican police had sought to link Hyland with nine alleged members of a revolutionary group known as Command Armado del Pueblo (People's Armed Command) who were seized at about the same time. Hyland said yesterday that one of the nine had died in prison. The remaining eight will face trial in the next few months, he added...