Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unarmed schoolboys hurled stones at police lorries and civilian freedom fighters stood up to machine-gun fire, Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Péerez Jiménez toppled with a crash that rattled the Americas' few remaining strongmen. Struggling to avoid a similar end at the hands of mountain guerrillas who have been battling for his overthrow, Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista relaxed his grip on civil rights, prepared to set up what he hoped would be a well-controlled election. And Guatemala, following its second try at presidential elections in three months, hovered at the brink of violence...
...office one day last week, got into his car and went over the river to Virginia on his first business visit to the Pentagon in five years. There, around a T-shaped table, he conferred for 2½ hours with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and 15 top civilian and military defense officials: Topic: Pentagon reorganization...
Among those present was a new military-civilian team mustered by McElroy last week to serve in effect as management consultants - the Air Force's General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Admiral Arthur Radford and Army General Omar Bradley, Twining's predecessors as J.C.S. chairmen; William C. Foster, Washington industrial ist (Olin Mathieson Corp.) and former Deputy Defense Secretary (1951-53); Charles Allerton Coolidge, Boston lawyer and former Assistant Defense Secretary (1951-52). (Absent member: Nelson A. Rockefeller, part-sponsor of the Rockefeller Report, which recommended an overhauling of Pentagon organization -TIME...
...Formosa pealed to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Freedom Day when the 14,000 arrived in Formosa. Among them some 20 known Red agents were discovered, clapped into a concentration camp. All the rest have now been absorbed either into the Nationalist army or the island's civilian economy...
...they dispersed last week, the conferees had not agreed on when and how the ultimatum should be delivered. Chief reason: some of the revolutionaries, military and civilian alike, want to give Sukarno a last chance...