Word: civilianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as flags of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and North Viet Nam. Hanoi dispatched a prestigious delegation to take part in the festivities, including Politburo Member Le Due Tho and North Vietnamese President Ton Due Thang. Also making their first appearances in Saigon since the Communist victory were civilian leaders like non-Communist Nguyen Huu Tho, chairman of the P.R.G. Advisory Council...
...shot their animals, and destroyed their crops. Then they were left stranded outside Quang-ngai, perhaps intended to block the advance of the communist troops. Other areas received similar treatment by the South Vietnamese army. The Washington Post reported as early as March that officials in Saigon had ordered civilians in the central highlands to evacuate, so that Saigon could destroy these areas, through air strikes without regard for the civilian population...
Schanberg, 41, learned the extent of the personal risk he had taken on the very first day of the Communist takeover. When he and some other journalists went to observe the grisly conditions at the city's largest civilian hospital, they were stopped by Khmer Rouge troops. "They put guns to our heads and, shouting angrily, threatened us with execution," Schanberg reported. "We thought we were finished." Luckily Dith Pran, a Cambodian employee of the Times, was able to talk the troops into freeing them. Schanberg got back to the Hotel Le Phnom just as it was being invaded...
...pact corresponds with our own ideas in the Socialist Party to effect a change in the country, but with prudence, paying attention to our geographical situation and respecting freedom and pluralism. Foreign observers are deeply concerned about the continuing presence of the military. As I myself have a civilian background,I can understand that. Don't forget that in Portugal we emerged from a fascist regime that lasted half a century, and we have just put an end to colonial wars that lasted 14 years. We cannot pass from that situation to a pure democratic system, British-style. Britain...
...Minister of the Interior and military commander in chief since March, is considerably more conservative than the young officers who placed him in power, he is expected to support their economic and social programs, which include some land reform, a limited nationalization of industry and an eventual return to civilian government. As one Honduran politician put it wryly: "I trust Melgar because he will not be able to rule the country. It will be ruled by the armed forces committee...