Word: civilianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Announced that he will limit raises for 3.4 million federal civilian workers and military personnel to 5½% this year, v. the 6½% previously budgeted (unless Congress forbids it) and will freeze the salaries of 2,300 political appointees. The President also sent letters to all Governors and many mayors asking them to hold down the pay of state and city employees...
...times have changed. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the persons who entered into this agreement are no longer around. Coups have toppled the civilian leadership in most African countries, and a new generation of academically trained theologians is moving into leadership positions in the churches. Tensions between these two groups of new elites--those from Sandhurst, Saint Cy and West Point, and those from Oxford, Union, Strassbourg, and Tubingen--is a source of serious conflict between Church and State in Africa today...
...their part, the political leaders, be they military or civilian, are in a hurry to enlarge the boundaries of state control. Areas like education and health services, which for a long time have been in the private domain of the churches, are being taken over by governments. A few church leaders welcome this, because it releases already overstretched resources for new forms of Christian witness and service; but very many lament the loss of this primary locus of direct evangelization...
While it was not the Navy's turn to head the joint chiefs, some Pentagon observers saw a message for that service in the retention of the post by the Air Force. "The Administration wants no boat-rockers in the new J.C.S.," said one civilian defense official. "The Administration is telling the Navy that if it wants to play rough, the Administration can play rougher...
...announcement that the 6% pay increase scheduled this fall for 1.4 million federal civilian employees and 2 million military personnel will be trimmed to 5.5%. Not only that, says one Treasury official, but "you can look for him to call on state and local governments to do the same thing." All Carter's advisers agree that the President must scale down the federal pay raise if he is to have any hope of getting unions in the private sector to take his pleas for wage-price restraint seriously; federal workers are widely believed to be overfed and underworked...