Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Americans are searching for an underground, multi-story complex which they believe is the central Vietcong command headquarters and is situated in this area...
...Leonid Ilyich. Throughout the festivities, Leonid I. Brezhnev, 63, General Secretary of the Communist Party, moved with an air of self-assurance and complete command. He had reason to. Unless the evidence that has been accumulating for weeks is completely illusory, Brezhnev is now on his way to gaining control of the Soviet Union's enormous power as no one man has been since the forced retirement of Nikita Khrushchev nearly six years...
Above all, he would have had to reckon with the armed forces. No Soviet leader could gain power today in the face of the army command's express opposition. An elite, well-paid and tradition-conscious group of professionals, the military officer corps is one of the most cohesive elements in Soviet society. Moreover, as the protector of an invasion-wary people, the army commands genuine popular respect, even though its vast appetite for funds is chiefly responsible for persistent shortages of consumer goods. Top political leaders rely heavily on military expertise for advice on policies as diverse...
...DEFENSE COMMAND, also a separate branch, has 500,000 men. It has 3,400 interceptor aircraft, mostly MIG-19s and MIG-21s, and a number of giant TU-114s, which patrol Soviet borders as early-warning radar aircraft. Long-range antiaircraft SA-5 missiles are installed on the Tallinn Line along the Gulf of Finland. Around Moscow the Soviets have deployed the world's first ABM system, consisting of 64 Galosh missiles, which carry a 1-or 2-megaton warhead and have a range of several hundred miles. Because the Soviets halted deployment of the Galoshes three years...
Cornell rushed ahead in the top of the second when Tom Boettcher and first baseman Fred Hoge hit back-to-back doubles, but the Crimson took command? in its turn at bat with two runs...