Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle for Southeast Asia, the Laotian showdown could sow important seeds of its own. The President had faced up to the crisis with great coolness and style. He was newly familiar with the face of the enemy on the battle line, and newly familiar with the weapons at his command. In leading an attack on free Asia, Nikita Khrushchev also contributed to the seasoning of the West's cold-war commander in chief...
...airborne 503rd Battle Group, part of General Isaac Davisj White's Pacific Army command, can move out of Okinawa in two hours. These paratroopers know their way around Laos-like terrain: they recently completed maneuvers in the Philippines...
...Fifty-percent increase in the Strategic Air Command's ground-alert program and maintenance of a twelve-plane airborne alert (TIME, March 17). SAC base warning systems will be improved, and various satellite-borne detection programs (e.g., Samos, Midas) and command-post communications networks will get a shot...
...Saudi Arabia, and promised that, before leaving, the U.S. would finish the air terminal it has been building for the Arabians at a cost so far of $5,000,000. In fact, the U.S. is rapidly running out of airbases in the Arab world. After the three Strategic Air Command bomber bases in Morocco close, as agreed, in 1963, the U.S.'s only remaining base in the Arab world will be the $100 million installation at Wheelus Field, Libya...
Soaring back to Ghana this week, Kwame Nkrumah could reflect contentedly on the success of his trip. It had been limelight all the way. First there was his big speech at the U.N., in which he urged an all-African command for the Congo force and insisted that all foreign diplomats get out. Then President John F. Kennedy greeted him warmly at the White House, took him in to meet the family. Finally Ghana's beaming Osagyefo (Redeemer) sat down in London with all the other British Commonwealth leaders to soberly deliberate on South Africa's fate...