Word: commandant
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...David Rubinger was on assignment in Spain. But both hurried back to Israel to join TIME'S Robert Slater, who was covering the political action in Jerusalem. Within hours they were in the battle zone. Rubinger photographed Halevy interviewing Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon at a forward military command post. One reporter found himself in the right place, right from the start. TIME'S Leroy Aarons had been dispatched protectively by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman to Metulla, Israel's northernmost town. On Sunday morning, one of the three main waves of the Israeli invasion force came...
Many of us in the infantry feel the A-10 is our most important defensive weapon against Soviet armor. Naturally, the Tactical Air Command is not as excited about ground-support aircraft as we in the infantry...
...three-man junta that had been picked to run the country by the junior officers who ousted General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia. In an equally swift maneuver, Rios Montt last week fired the other two members of the junta, and expressing thanks to God for having put him in command, proclaimed himself President of the country...
...week's end Israeli tanks and appeared to be poised for a possible across the border. All of Israel's military forces were fully mobilized, and troops throughout the rest of the were on alert. The Ministerial Committee, consisting of the Cabinet and military high command, met in Jerusalem to consider what step Israel might take next. The Middle East peace, thin as an eggshell at the best of times seemed on the verge of shattering...
...Clock High; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Drawn to becoming an Army pilot by a movie he saw while at Yale, he was shot down over France in 1944 leading a bomber mission. His adventures in the air fueled such movies as Above and Beyond (1952) and Strategic Air Command (1955). Criticized for being monothematic, he replied, "I think the ah" is like the sea; it's a vast medium into which the writer can probe for a lifetime...