Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Viet Nam's P.O.W.s have survived better as official patriots and readjusted to civilian life more successfully than some of their Korean War predecessors, perhaps because most of them, before the fall, were trained pilots and college-educated military career men. Most agree that their time of torture and isolation taught them much about self-reliance and the importance of thinking small. Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Joe Mobley, 36, a thin, balding man who greeted his friends on the first morning of the reunion wearing reverse-heel Earth Shoes and dungarees, still acutely remembers what seem like almost microscopic moments...
...journalists; his account clashed with Carter's on a number of key points. Castro insisted that after the Popular Movement triumphed over its rivals in early 1976, the Cubans stopped helping the Katangese. He maintained that there had been no contact between them and his military or civilian personnel since that time...
...wanton and brutal murder of unarmed white civilian women and children in Zaïre [May 29] should give all the liberal do-gooders, who are blindly supporting the black terrorists and advocating black majority rule for South Africa and Rhodesia, cause for concern...
...saving him once again, the Western powers are determined to insist on a strict price in terms of social and economic reform. Among the proposed demands: a completely rebuilt army, a remodeled central bank, better food distribution, and guarantees that there will be no government reprisals against the civilian population of Shaba, which has never liked Mobutu and made little secret of its sympathy for the invading rebels...
...worries seriously about Ecevit hopping into the Soviet camp. For one thing, Turkey's conservative military chiefs?behind-the-throne powers who carefully monitor the country's civilian governments?are considered to be staunchly opposed to such an idea. But some NATO analysts fear that continued neglect of Turkish needs could drive the country toward a more neutral posture. They also note that prior to his departure for the U.S. Ecevit received a precedent-shattering visit from Soviet Chief of Staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov...