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Steven Miller, assistant director of the Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs and editor of International Security, said one pressing problem in nuclear defense communications is keeping military communications, command, and control (referred to as "c-cubed" by experts) safe from attack...
...urban shootout was the latest escalation in the well-organized Mujahedin's struggle to topple Khomeini. It demonstrated that the guerrillas have retained their command structure, organizational efficiency and firepower despite the purges by the embattled regime. Including the 195 people shot last week, 2,150 opponents of the government have been executed since deposed President Abolhassan Banisadr and Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi escaped to France in July. This kind of bloodbath, Rajavi declared last week, will not deter his guerrillas. Said he: "The Resistance is prepared to pay the heaviest price possible to liberate Iran from the shackles...
...highest echelons of Khomeini's command were further decimated last week when Defense Minister Mousa Namju, acting Staff Chief Valiollah Fallahi and two other ranking commanders were killed in the crash of a C-130 returning from the Iranian-Iraqi front. Although a spokesman for a group of former officers loyal to the Shah claimed to have sabotaged the plane, both the government and Mujahedin leaders believed the crash was most likely an accident. Only days earlier, Iran had claimed its "biggest victory" in the year-long border conflict when its forces broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan...
After his victory, Healey appealed for party unity and vowed to develop policies that "will command majority support of the British people." What was important, he told TIME, was that "we have stopped the rot of the attempted takeover of our party by the Trots, Stalinists and loonies who have really nothing in common with Tony Benn-whom I readily agree is sincere-in whose name they act." Said former Prime Minister James Callaghan: "Now we're in business again as a serious alternative to Mrs. Thatcher's awful Conservative government." Party Leader Michael Foot said the first...
Seventeen months ago, Granville led the lemmings of Wall Street into a 30-point gain in a single day with an order to buy stocks. Then in January he set off a 23.80-point drop in one trading day with the command "sell everything." Even though stocks continued generally up for nearly five months after that before they started their current down phase, Granville insisted that he had the magic formula for Wall Street...