Word: civilianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were doomed, he said, and Germany and the Soviet Union would eventually destroy each other. Though he immediately volunteered for service after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt would not forgive his earlier opposition to America's policy of helping the Allies, and he refused him a uniform. As a civilian consultant to the War Department, however, Lindbergh was able to perform valuable service in improving planes and fighting techniques, both on the assembly lines at home and on the battlefields of the South Pacific...
...could be used for more than 50 bombs each year. Already there are 562 power-producing or research reactors in operation or under construction in 33 nations. By 1980, it is estimated, up to 1 million lbs. of Pu-239 will have been accumulated in the world's civilian nuclear power industry; a warhead with less than 22 lbs. could destroy a medium-sized city...
...seven years, Mavros last March was finally sent to the infamous Gyaros Island, where the military regime's most prominent foes coexisted with snakes, scorpions and rats. Now Mavros, 65, a Hellenistic blend of bluntness, sensibility and humor, is the No. 2 man in the new civilian government of Constantine Caramanlis, with portfolios as both Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister. Last week, in an interview with TIME's chief European correspondent William Rademaekers, Mavros explained why Athens is so bitter toward the U.S. and what it plans to do next...
...Emperor of "defecating on his people." As additional insult, the military forcibly entered Selassie's palace in Addis Ababa and arrested the commander of the Imperial Bodyguard. Most important, the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee, which dictates policy to Prime Minister Michael Imru's five-week-old civilian government, announced that it was abolishing four offices through which Selassie had ruled the country since 1930: the Crown Council, which issued the Emperor's decrees; the Imperial Appointments Office, which implemented his selection of all important government officials; the Military Advisory Council, by which he ran the armed forces...
...million Vietvets who served in Southeast Asia between 1961 and 1973, some 55,000 are presently receiving Government compensation for psychiatric disorders. Dr. Cherry Cedarleaf, former senior staff psychiatrist at the VA hospital in Minneapolis, has estimated that 50% of the returnees need some professional help in adjusting to civilian life. About 25% of the 800,000 veterans who have sought admission to VA hospitals or have been sent there by authorities have attempted suicide. As many as 26% of the veterans who served in Viet Nam have experimented with heroin and other drugs. So broad are the problems...