Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hickel's trouble with Nixon, the issue that led to his firing, had to do with politics, personality and style. Hickel's manner is pure Alaska -up front, assertive, raw. As a Governor, he was used to command, and the role of Nixon's subaltern did not suit him. Whatever his initial political stereotype, Hickel shattered it last May 6 when, in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings and the Cambodian expedition, he wrote to Nixon-having failed to gain a private hearing-to criticize the President for alienating himself from the young...
...White House will control party affairs going into the next election. Bush, for instance, would demand a strong voice for the committee. Dole might be more willing to function simply as Nixon's spokesman. There was talk that John Mitchell might resign as Attorney General to assume overall command of Nixon's campaign above the party chairman, but that would seem illogical now; Mitchell can easily advise the President politically without leaving the Justice Department...
...Gamal Abdel Nasser. But Sadat enjoys vastly less popular support than did Nasser. Therefore Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who hurried to Cairo for Nasser's funeral with his Deputy Defense Minister in tow, ordered a number of Russian moves to shore up Sadat. A new Russian military command was established, and Soviet "advisers" serving with the Egyptian army were directed to develop loyal cadres of Egyptians, who would take over-and report to the Russians-in the event that the Egyptian command structure was punctured by a coup...
...definite opening date for the movie. Cassavetes quickly launched a counterassault. He and his co-stars would sneak out in the early hours of the morning and paste Husbands posters all over Manhattan. He organized his own preview screenings, angrily fired off lengthy letters to the chain of command and in general exhausted the entire executive branch of Columbia Pictures. Wearily, they finally backed...
...NEUA, LAOS-We came to Sam Neua province from Hanoi. The Soviet-made command car proceeded hiccupping over a road struck by bombs and made slippery by the rain. It took almost two full nights to reach here, after much skidding in the mud and many dangerous encounters with trucks on the small mountain road...