Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quixotic Policies. Gaddafi's mercurial conduct has caused heated debates among the eleven other army officers of the Revolutionary Command Council. While Moslem practice still permits polygamy, Libya's revolution is supposed to be promoting social liberation. Thus, when Gaddafi fell in love with a young nurse while he was hospitalized for appendicitis and took her as his second wife last July, many government members felt that this was hardly proper revolutionary behavior. His chief rival, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Major Abdul Salam Jalloud, would like to see Gaddafi pay less attention to pan-Arab unity schemes...
Died. Elyesa Bazna, 66, better known as "Cicero," famed World War II spy for Germany, who could have doomed the D-day invasion had the German high command not stubbornly refused to believe his information; of kidney disease; in Munich. An Albanian national, Bazna served as valet to the British ambassador in Ankara, which enabled him to photocopy secret papers, including telegrams between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, and detailed plans for the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Germans paid him more than $1,000,000 for the information-all in counterfeit sterling notes they were circulating in hopes of undermining...
Telford Taylor, a retired brigadier general and presently law professor at Columbia, said Friday night that Westmoreland could be tried by the standards on which the Japanese commander in the Philippines, General Tomayuki Yamashita, was convicted and hanged. As commanding officer, Yamashita was held responsible for not stopping atrocities committed by troops under his command...
...sustained bombing continued, the U.S. command disclosed the loss of another plane taking part in the campaign. It was the 86th aircraft announced lost in Laos by American officials since March...
...army. While conceding that war with Communist invaders from Moscow or Peking was "improbable," Carrero Blanco announced that the nation had no choice but to develop its "maximum military potential." That means that Spain will increase its spending on its armed services and other security forces, which already command an outsized 18.6% of the gross national product...