Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commandos were carefully chosen and highly trained for their suicidal mission. The plan called for them to seize a bus and use it as a shooting platform to aim at anybody, civilian or military, who happened to come along the highway. Their only purpose was to kill as many Israelis as possible. If they could carry it off, they were to take the bus into the very center of Tel Aviv and continue the carnage until they were wiped...
...Washington, Administration officials seemed resigned to the fact that Israel would retaliate. Still, said one, "the hope is that they won't do it in an indiscriminate way that will result in a lot of Lebanese civilian deaths. The thing we don't want is to have the emotional level raised to such a point that it will affect the already delicate negotiations that are going on." But President Carter sent Begin a message saying he was still looking forward to their meeting. "Criminal acts such as this," said the President in a statement, "advance no cause...
...civilian exodus from the south was accelerated yesterday by fears of an Israeli raid in retaliation for the weekend Palestinian attack that killed 30 and wounded 80 Israeli citizens, sources in Beirut reported...
...summer when State Department legal experts began giving some credence to Israeli arguments that settlements within existing army camps located on occupied territory are not illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention; it says that "the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." Thereafter, on Oct. 2, the Begin government authorized the first of nine new settlements. The problem lies in the fact that the last four of these settlements were placed in army "camps" that had been created only a few weeks earlier-and obviously...
...civilian employment, women are not much better off. Only a third of them work outside the home, mostly in lower-paying jobs. Women account for only 9% of the higher-grade civil service positions, 2% of full professors, 1% of the nation's engineers. Only 6% of working women are employers or self-employed. Though the law calls for equal pay for equal work, many women are paid less than men for similar tasks, and, with a few exceptions, women are legally barred from nighttime work on the theory that it is potentially injurious to their health...