Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...save his throne, he appoints a civilian government
TEHRAN, Iran--Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi yesterday accepted the advice of Shahpour Bakhtiar, whom he appointed prime minister last week, to "rest and take a vacation" while Bakhtiar tries to form a civilian cabinet to replace the military government and quell the violent protests against the Shah...
Apparently this curious comment meant simply that the Shah wanted to keep out of public view while he attempted to end Iran's political crisis by putting together a civilian government to replace the two-month-old military regime. This was no small task, since most opposition leaders were calling for his ouster...
...most significant stop on McGovern's safari probably was Angola. That troubled, former Portuguese province has until recently strongly opposed U.S. African policy. In turn, Washington has long objected to the large force of Cuban soldiers and civilian workers (about 20,000) in President Agostinho Neto's socialist republic. Neto, reports TIME Correspondent David Wood, who accompanied McGovern to Luanda, hinted to McGovern that the Cubans will leave Angola eventually -but only when South Africa stops raiding the country's bases along the Namibian border...
...CUTTING. The expected deficit for fiscal 1979 has now been reduced from the original $60.6 billion to $38.9 billion, and in fiscal 1980 the President has pledged to shrink it to $30 billion or less. To do so while also increasing defense spending he will have to cut some civilian programs-public service jobs, antipollution grants, subsidized low-income housing-and give up or delay some new initiatives. National health insurance? Not until 1983. Welfare reform? Under current plans, no money for it. Members of the Board of Economists fear that even if Congress accepts all this shrinkage, a recession...