Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ARIEL ("ARIK") SHARON, the paratroop general who heads the southern command of Israel's defense forces, is so fond of the Hebrew couplet that he has hung it over the entrance of his Beersheba headquarters. But the exuberant confidence that once made it so fitting has disappeared in Israel. A note of doubt is creeping in. From Mount Hermon down to the Red Sea, Israel dispatched her Arab foes with relative ease in three wars. But now there is a new unknown to cope with in the form of Russia's dramatically increased presence in the Middle East...
...white stranglehold on local communities where whites are in the minority. The population of Greene County was 81% black in 1965, but only 452 blacks - less than 11% of the county's votingage Negroes-were registered. Now there are 4,000 blacks registered, enough to put them in command of the local elections next November. The veteran white sheriff, Bill Lee, is so worried that he has publicly embraced S.C.L.C. President Ralph Abernathy and posed for pictures with S.C.L.C. Leader Hosea Williams, who showed him how to give the "soul power" clenched-fist salute. The sheriff needs, he says...
...terrorists called themselves the "Juan Jose Valle Command," in memory of the Peronist general who led the abortive 1956 coup. But their actual identity and political orientation remained in doubt. Peronist leaders hotly denied involvement, and from his exile in Madrid, 74-year-old Juan Peron warned that the killing of Aramburu could plunge Argentina into civil war, which is exactly what the terrorists seemed to want. Taking advantage of the disorder, 6,000 workers in Cordoba seized eight automobile plants to dramatize their demands for higher wages. In Buenos Aires, Dictator Ongania dramatically reinstated the death penalty -banned since...
...Koppers and Carborundum. Richard, who became head of the family in 1934, later added First Boston Corp. and General Reinsurance Corp. Minority interests gave the Mellons a resonant voice in just about every Pittsburgh-based company except U.S. Steel. The family's policy was to reign rather than command, and its members -who include Mellon's cousins and nephews-stepped in only when management changes seemed necessary, which was seldom. Mellon himself picked many of the top managers, and they knew that he had veto power over their major decisions...
...make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 men or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly ground operations that have sent so many young men back to the United States in wooden boxes. At home, non-Vietnam military spending is already being pared down in what could develop into a new effort...