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...thought Charlie was in complete command, and [pitching coach] Gary Blaylock and I agreed it was his game to win or lose," Royals Manager Dick Howser said...
...Services subcommittee would designate him the "principal military adviser" to the President, authorized to make recommendations that any or all of the individual services might oppose. The Chairman also would gain a permanent seat on the National Security Council and supervisory authority over the ten generals and admirals who command forces in the field. (Each leads a unified command--all U.S. land, naval and air forces in the Pacific, for example--or a specified command of one service. They now get their orders directly from the Secretary of Defense or the President...
...consider the most radical reform. A 600-page Senate staff study about to be released recommends abolishing the JCS altogether and replacing the body with a panel of senior military officers, drawn from the ranks of generals and admirals with extensive experience as leaders of the unified command groups. Any reform is likely to be fought by the individual services and some legislators and Administration officials who fear "a Prussian-style general staff." But Admiral Crowe seems ideally suited to overcoming such obstacles. Originally a submariner, he earned a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton, and his posts have been...
...born in Haifa and educated in Damascus; a former airline hijacker himself, Abbas rates high on many Western lists of most-wanted terrorists. In 1977, Abbas helped to found the P.L.F. as a breakaway group from the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--General Command...
...even worse. Yet morale appears to be high among the 800 officers and enlisted men in the Santos Lopez counterinsurgency battalion, an elite Nicaraguan army unit stationed on the banks of the northern Bocay River. "I enjoy what I am doing," says Filemon Avilez Alfaro, 36, the battalion's commander. "None of us is obliged to be here. We want to be here." Similarly, despite reports of widespread draft resistance in Nicaragua, the 1,200 reservists of the less glamorous southern command who were recently summoned to the front in Juigalpa, about 150 miles from the Bocay River, appear...