Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...serve as chairman since the post was created in 1949 have been Army men, including General Earle Wheeler, who has held the post for the past six years. Only one has been an Air Force man, only one an admiral. Now the Navy is going to be in command again. Upon Wheeler's retirement this week, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Thomas Moorer, 58, will take over as chairman...
...spoken admiral has seen some rough sailing in his career. Patrolling the Pacific in his PBY, he was shot down by the Japanese and wounded in the hip. He reached safety only after surviving another Japanese attack. Decorated for his war service, he rose quickly through the ranks, taking command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in 1962, the Pacific Fleet two years later. In 1965 he was named commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, becoming the only Navyman to have commanded both oceans. In 1967 he was named Chief of Naval Operations...
...problem-solving ability will be sorely needed. The change of command comes just as the Joint Chiefs enter a time of trial for themselves and their services. The J.C.S. are a natural focus for the present unpopularity of the U.S. military establishment and, like the services they represent, are somewhat demoralized and defensive at the moment. They are also on the cutting edge of the military's financial problems. The defense budget for fiscal 1971 has already been slashed by $7 billion; the budget for fiscal '72 is expected to be cut by at least $2 billion more...
Last week, to take command, Arthur Goldberg came over the horizon blowing a trumpet muted with the first note that he ventured. The owlish, dignified former Supreme Court Justice, hoping that he could summon broad Democratic support to challenge Nelson Rockefeller, began his crusade instead with only a narrow primary victory. He defeated Howard Samuels, an attractive upstate plastics millionaire who has been a frequent office seeker, by 45,000 votes in an election for which only 26% of the state's enrolled Democrats roused themselves to vote. Samuels campaigned strenuously in person and spent lavishly on television. After...
...exodus, under the command of Lieut. General Michael S. Davison, was proceeding in textbook style. The remaining 12,000 U.S. fighting men in Cambodia were exiting in about equal numbers by helicopter, armored vehicle and foot. They were under strict orders to evacuate all their equipment in order to prevent the Communists from using any of it if and when they try to reoccupy the gutted sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. Davison ordered the emplacement of numerous fire-support bases just inside South Viet Nam to shield the last men coming out with an umbrella of artillery shells...