Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...senior officers who would be permanently separated from their respective services. The council would be headed by a Joint Staff Chairman, who would be principal military adviser to the President and the Secretary of Defense. ¶Individual services would maintain their identity but would be subordinate to three separate commands: a Strategic Command, responsible for the strategic missions of all-out nuclear war; a Tactical Command, responsible for all limited war operations; a Defense Command, responsible for all continental defense missions...
...fourth command, responsible for civil defense, would be composed of the National Guard and Reserve units from the separate services...
...fired off a note to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold charging the U.S., Britain and France with supporting a Belgian effort to regain control of the Congo. Then he advised the U.N. haughtily that he had proposed to nine other African nations* the formation of an independent African military command to handle such difficult assignments in the future. Since he had not invited such unsympathetic nations as Nigeria (most populous country in Africa) or those of the French Community (except for Mali), he avoided the risk of a mass rejection; but even most of the countries Nkrumah canvassed would doubtless...
...compels these electors to honor their pledge, the nature of this pledge and of the electoral system as it exists today must force them to vote as they said they would vote last month. The effort of Barnett and that notably playful Louisiana legislature to persuade or command the electors to do otherwise constitutes a grave (though hopefully fruitless) threat to democratic government in this country...
...event of Lumumba's death, many of the African states which have sent aid into the Congo may possibly withdraw from the U.N. Command in the Congo, Omuko indicated, stressing the importance of the Premier's safety...