Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military life is not an easy one, and women are encountering many of the same problems that have traditionally confronted men. Explains Brigadier General Mary Clarke, commander of the Army's Fort McClellan: "Both the women and the men come from an easygoing civilian life into a regimented environment. They suffer homesickness; they find it hard to get up at 5 a.m. Some of the women have not been accustomed to eating three meals daily and are required to do so here. Thus they tend to gain weight at first. But they are soon in good shape...
...years of Israeli occupation, and the desert began to bloom. The Israelis settled 4,500 people there, primarily in the towns of Yamit and Ofi-ra and in 15 agricultural communities. They grew vegetables in Rafah and built resorts on the Gulf of Aqaba. They spent $150 million on civilian enterprises and $2 billion on military installations, including two big new airfields, two old ones, three early warning stations and about 1,000 miles of roads. Jerusalem continued to develop the Sinai even after the disengagement agreements of 1974 and 1975, under which the Israelis pulled back from the Suez...
...others, however, the slogan at Novovoronezh, some 300 miles south of Moscow, reflects as much realism as rhetoric. The Soviet Union is by no means ready to beat all of its nuclear swords into plowshares. But it is moving vigorously to put the atom to work as a civilian...
Meanwhile, North Korea recently awarded $70,000 each to two defecting civilian employees of the South Korean army and gave them a heroes' welcome...
...settlements. Begin calls this "totally unacceptable." The issue remains dormant for six days. Then Egyptian President Anwar Sadat suggests a three-month freeze, which Begin accepts as a way to establish "a good atmosphere" for the upcoming Sinai negotiations. The Israelis, however, insist that the agreement refers only to civilian and not to military (nahal) settlements. During the final four-hour 25-minute discussion at Aspen Lodge, which was attended by Carter, Begin, Vance, Barak and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Barak is the only notetaker...