Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walls and windows were splintered by more than 150 bullets. Out into a search light's glare emerged 17-year-old Bobby J. Hutton, the Panthers' treasurer. Retching from the gas, he was hunched over. The police believed he might be armed and said he disregarded a command to halt. The circle of law officers shot him dead...
...emulates its leadership, ARVN all too often runs roughshod over the people it is defending while in the field. The offenses range from chicken thievery to rape to the indiscriminate use of artillery. Corruption has long been a way of life, with tribute exacted all along the chain of command until the squeeze reaches the peasant at the bottom. Again, only since Tet can Abrams count much progress: 18 province chiefs and two corps commanders have been fired, several dozen officers arrested and tried for corruption...
From the beginning of the North Vietnamese buildup around the Marine base, the U.S. command was convinced that North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, General Vo Nguyen Giap, intended to try to overrun Khe Sanh as he had stormed Dienbienphu 14 years earlier. As he had done against the French garrison, Giap assembled large numbers of his best-trained assault troops around Khe Sanh, together with huge quantities of weaponry...
Looking at the situation, the U.S. decided that the only way to defend Khe Sanh was by a massive application of airpower. At Tan Son Nhut airport outside Saigon, General William W. ("Spike") Momyer set up a special command whose sole mission was to orchestrate an aerial operation around Khe Sanh. Working over a sandbox model of the Khe Sanh area, two of the U.S. Army's most gifted tacticians-General Creighton Abrams and Lieut. General William B. Rosson-figured out the most logical places for Giap to concentrate men and supplies, then designated those areas as prime targets...
...whether we had the right of free speech on the Army Base. Predictably, he went beserk. "I'm not giving any forum to any of you political agitators. We don't want any of your opinions here. Get out of here." I sat quietly as he repeated the command and waddled ominously down to my chair. "Now are you going to get out of here?" he commanded. I smiled sweetly, looked up at him and quietly answered...