Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those in command of American foreign policy, Kissinger has a valuable message: "The West must have much more positive goals than to divine Soviet intent." We must unbend from our defensive diplomatic position, adopt a course aimed at implementing specific aims, especially in Africa and Asia, and not exhaust all our ideas in containment of the Soviets, "As the strongest and most cohesive nation in the free world," Kissinger states, "we have an obligation to lead and not simply depend on the course of events...
...Terrible) or pragmatically (Catherine the Great) have ruled Russia with the knout. One memorable vignette: Secret Police Chief Beria reviling the comatose Stalin as a monster on his deathbed and then dropping to his knees in slobbering sycophancy as the unconscious dictator raises an arm in eerily imperious command. Most striking photographs: the corps de ballet of the Bolshoi company dancing Swan Lake as if in shimmering blue moonlight; a row of Leningrad citizens in bathing suits, queuing up for a bit of winter sunshine...
...their first few months in the Escambray, the anti-Castro rebels did virtually nothing but lie low. As more and more ex-Castro officers appeared, the senior men took command. Today Captain Evelio Duque, a veteran of Castro's Sierra Maestra fight against former Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista, is the rebels' nominal chief. In fact, the Escambray guerrillas are still divided into half a dozen forces with only loose coordination, but since last October they have been getting arms in speedboat forays and airdrops organized by Cuban refugee groups in Miami...
...gentleman in the manhole (Jack Hawkins) turns out to be Lieut. Colonel J.G.N. Hyde, Retd., of the War Office, an impecunious nob who feels that his capacities for command were never adequately recognized in Her Majesty's service. To restore both purse and pride he decides to organize a paramilitary operation of his own. Objective: a bank. A riffle through the army's records discovers seven competent but crooked officers and other ranks (Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore, Terrence Alexander, Norman Bird)-all cashiered out, all out of cash. Guaranteed ?100,000 apiece...
...Should Command? Corpsmen would go in teams of five to ten with a topnotch leader. The GHQ: a small, new Government agency, probably headed by President Kennedy's brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver Jr., 45, a Chicago businessman. The agency would supply cash, corpsmen and coordination for the two main arms of the operation. In the U.S., private groups, such as foundations, universities, or the American Friends Service Committee, would propose projects abroad. In the host country, a binational board would have power to pass on projects and set local corps policy. The estimated cost is roughly...