Word: commandant
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Standing on a tower, world at my command...
...late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, the Far East Command directed a bloody but successful campaign against Communist guerrillas in the Malayan jungles. As late as 1965, when Indonesia was waging a new guerrilla war against Malaysia, Britain met the threat by maintaining a force of 70,000 men in the area. "But for the forces of the Far East Command during the years of confrontation," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "it would have been a very different Southeast Asia." The annual cost of $630 million proved too great, however, and in 1966 Harold Wilson...
...final days in Rome last week, some Catholics still clung to the hope that it would somehow prove a dramatic sequel to the Second Vatican Council. Close by the Vatican's new audience hall, where the prelates conferred in splendid isolation, liberals who wanted definitive reforms manned command posts and held daily press briefings. Those who think Pope Paul is not traditional enough pressed for a more conservative line. Members of the right wing's yippie element lobbied in their own way by sloshing paint on the coats of arms of two liberal cardinals...
Celibacy, birth control, marriage laws and other matters of dogma and discipline may be in the forefront, but the real crisis in the church is one of authority-and whether the government of the church can still command it in the minds of many Catholics. "Authority belongs to those who have authentic voices," writes Maryknoll Psychologist Eugene C. Kennedy in a new book, In the Spirit, in the Flesh, "those who speak to the experience and hopes of mankind...
...seems like an experienced physician smoothly examining a naked patient. The effect is a fascination that distracts the mind from predictability of both plot and retribution. The end finds Rabbit and Janice joining up once again with the cold, metallic precision of a lunar landing vehicle docking with its command module after a mission. "O.K.?" is the last word of the novel. It is a taciturn echo of space talk, but it is also a grounded, middle-aged Updike saying, in effect, "What did you expect...