Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...technology, not one of men. During the last several years, the U. S. military has reversed its policy of massive ground war and has instead employed a sophisticated range of machinery to enforce America's will in Southeast Asia. Veterans of the war would scarcely recognize the American command posts in Vietnam if they returned to them today. Instead of guns and arms and all the familiar furniture of colonial warfare, they would see a maze of "electronic battlefields" programmed with up-to-date communication, spewing forth "enemy" positions in any given area. They would see a complex of computers...
...according to public pronouncements by both Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers, nearly all U.S. troops will be out of combat. North Vietnamese infiltration into the South totaled 50,000 men in the first seven months of 1970, according to the U.S. command in Saigon. Enemy troops are now infiltrating into South Viet...
...Gamal Abdel Nasser. But Sadat enjoys vastly less popular support than did Nasser. Therefore Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who hurried to Cairo for Nasser's funeral with his Deputy Defense Minister in tow, ordered a number of Russian moves to shore up Sadat. A new Russian military command was established, and Soviet "advisers" serving with the Egyptian army were directed to develop loyal cadres of Egyptians, who would take over-and report to the Russians-in the event that the Egyptian command structure was punctured by a coup...
...definite opening date for the movie. Cassavetes quickly launched a counterassault. He and his co-stars would sneak out in the early hours of the morning and paste Husbands posters all over Manhattan. He organized his own preview screenings, angrily fired off lengthy letters to the chain of command and in general exhausted the entire executive branch of Columbia Pictures. Wearily, they finally backed...
Captain Dale Dover, who finished with 17 points and five assists, took command in the opening minutes, driving and twisting for lay-ups and playing tight defense against Dartmouth scoring threat James Brown. Brown scored on only six of 24 field goal attempts...