Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million could be saved annually if the Pentagon stopped paying civilian blue-collar employees more than what comparable non-Government workers earn in the same community. Another by Congress's General Accounting Office: a gain of $300 million if the military would simplify the methods by which it protects its telephone conversations from eavesdroppers...
During the six-month run-up to elections, Rhodesia would effectively revert to the status of a British colony, run by a British governor assisted by some 300 civilian and military advisers. A cease-fire would confine the Salisbury security forces to their barracks and the guerrillas to their bases, leaving Commonwealth observers to police the elections...
Bernardi said the jobs in the general counsel's office are civilian, not military, and the offending Navy regulations apply only to uniformed personnel. The Navy counsel told Bernardi that other Department of Defense regulations about homosexuality that did apply to civilians had been superseded by Congress' Civil Service Reform Act, Bernardi added...
Leaning heavily on material in William Shawcross's highly critical book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, Frost disputed Kissinger's contentions that Prince Sihanouk tacitly supported the bombing of North Vietnamese "sanctuaries," that there was no danger of civilian casualties, and that the U.S. had not violated Cambodian neutrality. Replied Kissinger: "It is an absurdity. . . to say that a country [North Viet Nam] can occupy part of another country, kill your people and that then you are violating its neutrality when you respond against the foreign troops that are on that 'neutral' territory...
...shuns the PLO because it uses terrorist tactics. But Israeli guerrillas--under Menachem Begin--also used terrorist tactics in the period before the creation of Israel in 1948. Moreover, the recent bombings of civilian Palestinian camps in Lebanon are as deplorable as violent raids by Palestinian terrorists...