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Word: commandant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...alone nuclear ambitions. It would also provide an out for those who fear nuclear weapons in Germany's hands. The State Department has been talking a long time about presenting a U.S. plan to the NATO meeting this month, creating a nuclear armed strategic force under NATO command. But the details have not been worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Perils of Postponement | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...underground command post at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha last week, a team of 300 Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps officers worked away in rare interservice harmony -putting together a book. The officers were the members of the Defense Department's new Strategic Target Planning Group, and their book was a bulky, top-secret volume containing data on all important Soviet targets and detailed plans for hitting them in case of all-out nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Best Appointment | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...August as a solution to a nagging dispute between the Air Force and the Navy over control of the Navy's Polaris missile-submarine system. The Air Force, claiming the right to hit strategic targets, wanted to put assignment of Polaris targets under control of the Strategic Air Command. The Navy, claiming the need for seagoing expertise, wanted Polaris targeting left up to Navymen. In another day the fight would have boiled out into angry headlines. But Gates set up the interservice strategic target team, headed by SAC Commander General Thomas S. Power, to keep track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Best Appointment | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...lack of drama, Sir Abubakar is an astute and impressive statesman. His rolling, resonant oratory and superb command of English have won him the nickname "The Golden Voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Black Rock | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...opoldville one long, hot day last week, the simmering conflict between the U.N. Command and Congolese Military Strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu finally reached a showdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: The Embassy Firefight | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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