Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chilean military−notably the navy−has a reputation for maintaining stern, even brutal discipline. That may not bode too well for the immediate future, since General Pinochet is a tough and energetic commander, as well as a stickler for army regulations. Born in Valparaiso−Allende's home town−Pinochet (pronounced pee-no-chet) entered the army's military academy at the age of 18. He has been to the U.S. Southern Command in the Panama Canal Zone several times, and in 1956 served as military attache to the Chilean embassy in Washington. Although...
...guerrilla issue was clearly the touchiest item on the agenda in Cairo. Hussein apparently expressed a willingness to let small units of the Palestine Liberation Army be based in Jordan under Jordanian command. But he balked at proposals that massive bands of guerrillas be allowed back in the lines under independent fedayeen command. The King's determined stand stalled the conference. When it ended after three days, Egypt announced that it was resuming diplomatic relations with Jordan, and Syria is expected to follow suit soon. But the communiqué made no reference to the fedayeen issue...
Later, at the government command post, Major General Sar Hor, who was in charge of the city's defenses, spelled out the problems. At that point, government troops held less than a third of a square mile; the insurgents controlled 60% of the city and were pressing for more. But Sar Hor, a roly-poly man of 56 who wore several large oval rings on his fingers, was confident. "The situation was once very critical," he said, "but now it is merely critical. We will recapture what has been lost." There was reason for his growing optimism...
Next door to the heavily fortified command bunker is the town hall. A small group of tough Cambodian special-forces troops walked in, exuberantly displaying a .50-cal. machine gun recovered from an enemy position that they had just destroyed. General Sar Hor pulled a wad of riels from his map case and handed the reward to Major Kim Phong, the group's commander. "Special forces, can do!" he shouted. Kim Phong, a tall, strapping Khmer with a stubbly beard, who looks a bit like an Asian Lee Marvin, has been a soldier for 20 years, first...
...fact that the I.R.A. Proves are still functioning at all is something of a triumph for the organization. The British army command claims that it has broken the back of the I.R.A. in Ulster−and that is probably true. In the past five months, more than 300 suspected I.R.A. members in Northern Ireland have been detained. British intelligence experts estimate that there are only 20 full-time Provo activists left in Belfast, down from a peak of 1,100 in 1972. The average young Provisional is either picked up or shot within three months after he joins the I.R.A...