Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...orders were terse. The new government was "to act immediately to undo hostile planning and restore matters as they should be." "Hostile forces," the King added, had "undermined national unity, shaken the armed forces, dynamited their military spirit and discipline, and created a state of despair." At Majali's command, the Jordanian army was soon moving tanks and artillery into Amman...
...guerrillas accepted the challenge. Yasser Arafat, leader of Al-Fatah, the biggest guerrilla group, and of the overall PLO command, had already summoned ambassadors from other Arab states and told them: "Will you kindly inform your governments that King Hussein, with mature consideration, has drawn up a detailed plan which is bound to end in a blood bath? I possess irrefutable proof that he intends to liquidate the Palestinian resistance." In Amman, Damascus and Baghdad, guerrilla radios suddenly began crackling with curiously coded messages. "The dinner is hot," said one. "Ghazi is marching to Haifa," said another. In plainer language...
...guerrillas can thus survive, but to prosper they may have to change. Like many revolutionary movements, their central command is being devoured by warring ideologies...
Habash's intensely doctrinaire movement has spawned several offshoots. Two splinter groups, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command, are more rabidly Maoist than Habash is; both have seats on Arafat's central committee. They and similar splinters badly disrupt the coordination of the group and sap the effectiveness of the guerrilla movement...
...name, made it obvious that he is, at best, a second banana. Knotts, the Milquetoast deputy sheriff on the old Andy Griffith Show, tried to make a virtue of his inability to sing, dance or string a show together. Opening night, Guest Anthony Newley pushed Knotts around and took command-a running gag that provoked a feeling of sympathy. But can other guests and the same gag make a season...