Word: commanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fedayeen last week left 14 people dead and 69 injured. The guerrillas, meanwhile, were also mending their political fences. In September, there were eleven commando groups in the Palestine Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat. As of last week, six had been absorbed by stronger groups. A new unified command, to be called the Palestine Liberation Front, is evolving under Arafat's direction...
...operation was so politically sensitive that the U. S. Command imposed a news blackout and refused comment on two charges by Hanoi...
...sources said the Pentagon seized on the downing of an unarmed American reconnaissance jet on Nov. 13 as justification for retaliatory raids, although a Pentagon spokesman said that since then other U. S. reconnaissance planes had been fired on but not hit. But the U. S. Command in Saigon had insisted since the Nov. 13 episode that it had no reports of American aircraft being fired...
Nearly 19 years ago, De Gaulle had given Pompidou a sealed envelope to be opened after his death. Its contents proved to be an extraordinary last command. De Gaulle once wrote that "great leaders have always stage-managed their effects." Clearly, he was determined for his own last effect to be one of grandeur in sheer understatement. De Gaulle insisted on an "extremely simple" funeral, "without the slightest public ceremony." The gravestone, he directed, should read only CHARLES DE GAULLE, 1890-____. He was to be buried in the churchyard of Notre Dame de Colombey, next to his daughter Anne...
...death, Nasser met regularly with Sudanese Leader Jaafar Numeiry and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. At last week's meeting, Numeiry, Gaddafi and Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat, produced a communiqué pledging to seek eventual political federation. To this end, they set up a "Tripartite Political Command...