Word: commandant
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Jordan did not particularly want to be chief of staff, but he vowed, "If I do it, it won't be done in a half-assed way." As he took command last week, he seemed determined to carry out that pledge. Said he: "I'll have to change in a number of ways. I'll have to change my approach and my attitude to my work. I know what I do well and what I don't do well. What I do well is, I plan. I am organized in my head...
...took off from the hills above Managua. It hovered over a heavily fortified complex in the heart of the war-torn capital and flicked on its landing lights. For the last time, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle gazed down upon the bunker that had been his combination home and command post for the past 20 months. Then the chopper alighted at Las Mercedes Airport, where Somoza's private jet was standing by. Moments later, the wan and pasty-faced dictator, drooping with fatigue, was on his way into exile...
Thus ended, ingloriously, the 46-year reign of the Somoza dynasty. It was as if a giant weight had been lifted off Nicaragua's back. Late in the week, after the new provisional Government of National Reconstruction had taken command of Managua, the capital awoke to an orchestra of gunfire. It was not a resumption of the civil war that ended in Somoza's humiliating defeat. Instead, guerrillas of the victorious Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) were firing their weapons in jubilation. Men and women cheered and cried tears of joy as a huge equestrian statue...
...formed a committee to raise the equivalent of the $10,000 grand prize for him, and he soon had all the publicity and bookings a young art ist needs. As this release shows, he has all the more fundamental qualities a young artist needs too: exuberant virtuosity, a formidable command of pianistic sonorities and lots of sensitive, poetic feeling. -Christopher Porterfield
...reveries of violence, from lines like haiku ("Aurora borealis/ The icy sky at night/ Paddles cut the water/ In a long and hurried flight") to verbal lasers of lancing irony ("Hard to believe that love is free now/ Welfare mothers make better lovers"). Young is in such thorough command throughout that he can jump a century between lines of a verse, begin a song like Powderfinger as a folk tale ("Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river"), then turn it into an apocalypse. Of all rock's major figures, Young seems...