Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...command in Saigon, for example, announced last week that 708,544 enemy troops have been killed in Viet Nam since 1961-more than the total number of Communist troops estimated to be in all of Indochina at present (650,000). "If the figures are not true," says a U.S. embassy source in Saigon, "then we are not hitting them as hard as we think. If the figures are true, then they demonstrate a frightening commitment on the part of the enemy." In Cambodia, similarly, more than 22,500 Communists have been reported killed since the allied invasion began last April...
Helicopter loss figures seem no more reliable. As of last week, reported the U.S. command, 38 helicopters had been lost over Laos in combat and two destroyed in a mid-air collision since Feb. 8. The fact is, about 200 helicopters had been lost over Laos by week's end. The command, it seems, reports only those choppers that are totally destroyed and cannot be retrieved...
...week's end Yahya Khan announced in a radio broadcast that the Constituent Assembly would convene after all on March 25. "As long as I am in command of the armed forces, I will ensure the complete and absolute integrity of Pakistan." Nevertheless, it seemed doubtful that Yahya's decision to convene the assembly would pacify Mujib. Two days earlier, the East Pakistani leader said of the West Pakistanis: "I will break them and bring them to their knees." After such a statement, an outright declaration of independence could be little more than an anticlimax...
Just as the word casbah brings to mind Charles Boyer's sexily sinister invitation to accompany him there, the name Casablanca evokes the gravelly command of Humphrey Bogart: "Play it again, Sam." So it seemed like a good idea to Pan American Airways to advertise its flight to Casablanca with a movie still of the late Bogey and those immortal words. To his widow Lauren Bacall, though, it seemed like a lousy idea. "Is there no limit to what people will do to make a buck?" she snarled. "It's the worst sort of invasion of privacy. Bogart...
...search for comparative facts was often discouraging. They had great difficulty in determining the actual strength of the Tactical Air Command and other tactical air elements. Incredibly, it took from 1961 to 1966 for military and civilian planners to agree on how to take inventory at all.* Even now, the authors complain, the true cost of an infantry division is "not really known anywhere in the system...