Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indecent hurry just isn't valid. This isn't too fast." As a ballplayer, Munson was able to spend much more time than most other private pilots in learning to fly. He had logged 516 hr. in the air, 303 of them as pilot in command...
...attacks-using U.S. equipment-on Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon. At week's end, Palestinian sources in Beirut claimed that Israel had launched an armored strike into southern Lebanon in retaliation for a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem that killed two Israelis and wounded 42 others. The Israeli high command denied that it had mounted any such attack. Despite the forced resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, the Israelis fear that Washington is secretly planning to establish informal relations with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (see following story). The U.S.-Israeli tensions exploded at a dinner party given...
...Communist movement for nearly 50 years. He had been the only Premier the People's Republic had had -nearly 22 years-and for nine of those years he had also been Foreign Minister. He was equally at home in philosophy, reminiscence, historical analysis, tactical probes, humorous repartee. His command of facts, in particular his knowledge of American events and, for that matter, of my own background, was stunning. There was little wasted motion either in his words or in his movements. Both reflected the inner tensions of a man concerned, as he stressed, with the endless daily problems...
...inane uproar over the troops in Cuba illuminates the confused state of our foreign policy, which lacks the stability and consistency that command worldwide respect. President Carter has shown prudence in his caution over angering the Soviets by refusing to agree to the linkage of the two issues. But his poor national rating has allowed Congress a free hand in determining America's foreign policy...
...Israeli military command said its jets, including the F-15, America's most sophisticated fighter, were on a reconnaissance mission over Palestinian guerrilla bases...