Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...report's recommendations are as significant as its findings, because they would completely overhaul the command structure. Under the proposed plan, the 27 separate subdivisions that now report directly to the Secretary of Defense would be realigned into three functional groups: one for military operations, one for handling personnel and material resources, and one for managing finances and performing evaluation and testing of weapons systems. Each would be headed by a Deputy Secretary of Defense reporting directly to the Secretary. The Secretary's office staff, now 3,000 persons, would be cut by at least...
...diplomatic status in Phnom-Penh from mission to embassy level. At that time, the embassy will move from its present cramped quarters, which housed the servants of a large villa before the U.S. took it over, to a half-block-long building on Norodom Avenue. The man in command, succeeding Charge d'Affaires Lloyd Rives, will be newly appointed Ambassador Emory ("Cobey") Swank, 48, who was Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson's second in command in Russia as deputy chief of mission and is now one of the State Department's ranking Soviet experts. He also served as Washington...
...problems of the aged are not their concern alone. Since reaching the age of 70 or 80 is becoming the norm rather than the exception, more and more of the middle-aged - even when they retire - have elderly parents and other relatives to care for. For the "command generation" there are two generation gaps, and the decisions to be made about their parents are often more difficult than those concerning their children. Various community agencies sometimes help, and in Manhattan a private referral service is kept busy helping distraught people find the right place for parents who can no longer...
...limitation on anti-ballistic missiles. ABMs would be used only to protect "national command centers." Thus the Soviets' ABMs would remain around Moscow, and the U.S. Safeguard system, instead of being built at 14 sites throughout the nation, would be erected only in the Washington vicinity...
Even the Strategic Air Command must compete with other SACs, from sprayed acoustical ceiling to the Society of the Catholic Apostolate-not to mention SACC (either Supplemental Air Carrier Conference or Supporting Arms Coordination Center) and SAK (a Finnish trade union confederation called Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskuslitto...