Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke when the New Delhi Statesman headlined the shocking news that India's popular and able army chief of staff, General K. S. Thimayya, had handed in his resignation. The reason: months of incessant bickering, especially about promotions in the armed forces, between Thimayya and the civilian Minister of Defense, crotchety, Mephistophelean Krishna Menon...
...Ring. First prosecution witness was burly, mustached Izmir Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin. Specifically asked by Judge Celal Varol about any rough stuff during the arrests, Capin denied beating anyone. At this point, a Turkish civilian, Sureya Eslek, on trial with the Americans, leaped to his feet and called Capin a liar, crying, "I was beaten!" After testifying that he "watched" one illegal exchange of currency through a window, which reporters subsequently discovered to be opaque, Policeman Capin grumpily sat down, spent the rest of the day glaring at Defendant Eslek and opening and closing his fist in a way that...
...moving at last with some purpose. At week's end army sources said that regular Indian regiments are on the way to man all the border separating Tibet from India's North-East Frontier Agency and will take over the defense of the region from the civilian Assam Rifles. Red Chinese troops are said to be still in control of the Longju checkpoint, four miles inside India. They will be asked to withdraw peacefully. Suppose they refuse? An army spokesman answered: "Then the Indian army will strive to push them...
...Blue riflemen's team from Fort Benning, Ga. won 14 out of 24 matches, set a national record of 1.107 points out of a possible 1,200 with the M-1 service rifle at distances of 600, 500, 300 and 200 yds., routed Marine, Navy and civilian teams to capture the Infantry Trophy at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...unchanging problem of U.S. service academies is how to cram two educations, military and civilian, into the time normally required for one. In an age of awesome weaponry and a worldwide battle of ideas, the problem is getting some new answers, notably at the new Air Force Academy north of Colorado Springs-where the aim is "education, not training," the curriculum is evenly split between science and the humanities, and the students hardly touch their seats to cockpits in four years. Last week the Army and Navy turned in the same direction...