Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Hickel's trouble with Nixon, the issue that led to his firing, had to do with politics, personality and style. Hickel's manner is pure Alaska -up front, assertive, raw. As a Governor, he was used to command, and the role of Nixon's subaltern did not suit him. Whatever his initial political stereotype, Hickel shattered it last May 6 when, in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings and the Cambodian expedition, he wrote to Nixon-having failed to gain a private hearing-to criticize the President for alienating himself from the young...
...White House will control party affairs going into the next election. Bush, for instance, would demand a strong voice for the committee. Dole might be more willing to function simply as Nixon's spokesman. There was talk that John Mitchell might resign as Attorney General to assume overall command of Nixon's campaign above the party chairman, but that would seem illogical now; Mitchell can easily advise the President politically without leaving the Justice Department...
...NEUA, LAOS-We came to Sam Neua province from Hanoi. The Soviet-made command car proceeded hiccupping over a road struck by bombs and made slippery by the rain. It took almost two full nights to reach here, after much skidding in the mud and many dangerous encounters with trucks on the small mountain road...
...fedayeen last week left 14 people dead and 69 injured. The guerrillas, meanwhile, were also mending their political fences. In September, there were eleven commando groups in the Palestine Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat. As of last week, six had been absorbed by stronger groups. A new unified command, to be called the Palestine Liberation Front, is evolving under Arafat's direction...
...death, Nasser met regularly with Sudanese Leader Jaafar Numeiry and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. At last week's meeting, Numeiry, Gaddafi and Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat, produced a communiqué pledging to seek eventual political federation. To this end, they set up a "Tripartite Political Command...