Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marmon, Photographer David Rubinger and a few fellow journalists had arrived in Nicosia two days earlier in a chartered plane, the first civilian flight to land in Nicosia after Monday's coup. Quick to follow was Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who, like Marmon, reported for TIME on both the Viet Nam War and last year's Middle East October war. Prager made it to Cyprus aboard a 1,000-ton German trawler bearing two dozen newsmen whose transistor radios interfered dangerously with the ship's compass. "The old Viet Nam bush jackets are here in full...
Heavily Weighted. For the moment at least, Spínola remains in power, but the civilian phase of the Portuguese revolution seemed to be nearing an end. At week's end, Spínola named as Portugal's Premier Colonel Vasco Gonçalves, who will preside over a new military-civilian coalition government. But that was no guarantee of stability, since the young officers of the A.F.M. appear as divided as the civilians. Some officers want to pull out of Portugal's rebelling colonies completely; some want an authoritarian government while others, particularly from the navy...
...army is the only Spanish institution strong enough to perpetuate Franco's power, it lacks a strong and compelling leader. Franco has systematically cashiered military upstarts who showed signs of building a popular following, and there are no signs of political dissension in the rank and file. Civilian moderates have held no real power in the government since the relatively liberal Opus Dei technocrats were booted out of the Cabinet after Carrero Blanco's assassination...
...spectrum that included neofascists, far-left urban guerrillas, and trade unionists. From exile, the ousted President stayed in touch with his loyalists in Argentina through lengthy letters, taped messages and personal emissaries. He remained the most important single factor in Argentine politics. A succession of five military and three civilian governments found themselves unable to govern effectively, partly because of the discontent?and promise?fomented by Perón.' With each failure the alternative was clear: Per?...
Price senses that Stringer is a member of nothing. He has no use for military form; the possibilities of the civilian world seem to him narrowing spirals of delusion. Although he appears humane and sensitive, his compass swings powerfully toward chaos...