Mr. Sokolev, who declared himself "commandant" after the January seizing of the regional administration, has stumbled in rallying support for his militant line.
The Commandant of Cadets himself, Brigadier General Theodore Martin, expressed what I perceived to be a sincere desire to see to it that these issues are dealt with quickly and severely.
When President John F. Kennedy nominated General Greene for commandant, the general showed himself to be a space-minded planner.
Born in 1863, d'Annunzio spent outrageously on art, clothing, and furnishings; had an eight-year relationship with Eleonora Duse; and, most notoriously, set up a mini-state in the Adriatic town of Fiume, with himself as commandant.
On Sept. 12. 1919, the Italian nationalist poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, who had mustered a body of men near Trieste, occupied Fiume and proclaimed himself the "commandant" of the "Reggenza Italiana del Carnaro". The Italian government, however, on concluding the Treaty of Rapallo (Nov. 12, 1920) with Yugoslavia, resolved to turn D'Annunzio out of Fiume.
Nevertheless, Jones has taken the time to speak with many people familiar with the accident, including families, aviation experts, Jim Schaefer a Marine who personally witnessed the crash and believes the faulty aircraft was responsible and General James Amos, the Commandant of the Marine Corps himself.
According to policy set by the chief of naval operations, Adm. Gary Roughead, himself a former commandant of midshipmen at the academy, we have a "zero tolerance" policy for drug use.
This episode, when Fremont abruptly removed his explorer's disguise to declare himself, grandiosely, "Military Commandant of the Territory of California," earned him the enmity of the regular Army commander, Brig.
The last serious incident also involved the Vatican's security forces, when in 1998 a Swiss Guard, one of the elite force that protects the pope, killed a commandant and his wife, then killed himself.
