Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...operation was so politically sensitive that the U. S. Command imposed a news blackout and refused comment on two charges by Hanoi...
...sources said the Pentagon seized on the downing of an unarmed American reconnaissance jet on Nov. 13 as justification for retaliatory raids, although a Pentagon spokesman said that since then other U. S. reconnaissance planes had been fired on but not hit. But the U. S. Command in Saigon had insisted since the Nov. 13 episode that it had no reports of American aircraft being fired...
Nearly 19 years ago, De Gaulle had given Pompidou a sealed envelope to be opened after his death. Its contents proved to be an extraordinary last command. De Gaulle once wrote that "great leaders have always stage-managed their effects." Clearly, he was determined for his own last effect to be one of grandeur in sheer understatement. De Gaulle insisted on an "extremely simple" funeral, "without the slightest public ceremony." The gravestone, he directed, should read only CHARLES DE GAULLE, 1890-____. He was to be buried in the churchyard of Notre Dame de Colombey, next to his daughter Anne...
...Saigon, an official spokesman for the U. S. command said he had no reports of American bombing raids against North Vietnam. He said of Radio Hanoi's report, "If it in fact is true, I have not seen or heard it. Officially, I have nothing...
Most of the 150 war planes from the two carriers joined up to 400 air force aircraft flying from bases in Thailand and South Vietnam in what the U. S. command called a campaign to stem the flow of North Vietnamese war material southward...