Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slaughtered thousands of Spanish revolutionaries in the name of "fighting Fascism?" Who dissolved the Soviets as working popular bodies, and installed Henry Ford's methods of management and "efficiency" as the principles governing Soviet industry and labor, which Landau rightly castigates? Who was responsible for the decimation of the command of the Red Army and the illegal system which tried and executed thousands of revolutionaries for being "Nazi agents" and then a year later signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler...
...across the border was to destroy the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong s??les that ?? just inside Cambodia, from the Gulf of Siam to as far north is the Laotian border. But the aimlessness that characterized the first several days of the American operation suggests strongly that the U.S. command had more clandestine goals in Cambodia than Nixon was willing to acknowledge. It seems likely, in fact, that a primary goal of the invasion was to provide support for the right-wing military junta that seized power in Cambodia two months...
Even as he spoke, U.S. air cavalrymen thrust into Cambodia's Kompong Cham province, located inside a Communist-infested zone called "the Fishhook." Their mission: a strike at the Communist high command hidden in groups of heavy concrete bunkers at several points beyond the border. Farther south, troops of the South Vietnamese army (ARVN), aided by U.S. advisers, helicopters and medical teams, swept into another Communist stronghold known as "the Parrot's Beak," located only 35 miles from Saigon. U.S. planes, meanwhile, began bombing the three other sanctuaries. By week's end the two ground forces reported a combined enemy...
...keeping the peace in New Haven, officials had reason to worry. The Justice Department had reports that shotguns and rifles purchased by Panthers were transported to New Haven. Panthers and members of the ultramilitant white Weathermen brought dynamite into the city, according to police intelligence, and the Panther command ordered each of its chapters to send their most skillful dynamiters, planning to place them under the command of Robert Webb and John Turner, both known as "demolition experts...
There is considerable dissembling on both sides. The Japanese case could probably command greater support among U.S. free-traders if Japan were not itself more protectionist than any other developed nation. It has grown rapidly to economic maturity behind a barricade of restrictions, which once were justifiable as a shield for so-called infant industries. Japanese attitudes have not caught up with the country's important new trading role...