Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Command announced yesterday it launched the heaviest aerial bombing attacks on North Vietnam in three months over the weekend. Word of the raids, called "protective reaction strikes," was withheld until Tuesday, a spokesman said, "mostly for security reasons...
...command also reported that fighting had picked up in eastern Cambodia, where they reported having killed 140 Viet Cong troops. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said yesterday South Vietnamese troops may soon be involved in heavy fighting in Cambodia as well as Laos...
Control of the air war involves two aspects: targeting and operations. Operational control has always rested with the Air Force. As former Ambassador William H. Sullivan said in Senate hearings last May, "the Air Force does not second the command of its aircraft... to the control of the Ambassador...
...tall and wildly attractive to young women. "Entering the bottom edge of middle age," Jones writes, "he could relax a little and look back without anger." With his wife Louisa he gives regular Sunday suppers for the American colony (as does Jones), and his apartment becomes a kind of command post from which expatriates uneasily sally forth to see the carnage between the kids and De Gaulle's cops. On Jones' track record one might expect Harry to be hero-protagonist. Instead, the book produces Jonathan James Hartley III, a creaky, equivocal observer-narrator who could easily have...
...high level. The American command in Saigon said that during the first two weeks of the drive into Laos, U. S. helicopters had flown more than 10,000 missions across the border. U. S. tactical combat planes are flying more than 500 combat missions into Laos each day, South Vietnam has approximately ten helicopters involved in the drive...