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Word: civilianized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1972, only 300 government personnel of all races have been killed, along with 100 white civilians. The black civilian toll is far higher: almost 1,400 killed, including 238 curfew breakers and 342 civilians trapped in crossfire. But as guerrilla skills improve, the kill ratio has dropped in the past year, from 11 to 1 in the government's favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Military: A Mission Impossible | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...herded blacks into "protected villages" in order to cut off food supplies to the guerrillas. International organizations estimate that there are now half a million villagers obliged to live behind barbed wire from dusk to dawn. The tragedy is that the army often cannot differentiate between gunman and civilian-hence the high death rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Military: A Mission Impossible | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...continued encroachment by Jewish settlers. Since 1967, 45 communities (nine of them Jerusalem suburbs built on Arab land) have been created on the West Bank-in violation of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which states that an "occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." To West Bankers, the settlements are not only permanent, but they are also designed to surround and isolate the major Arab centers of population. Example: in the Latrun finger, a spit of land that juts out between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the Arab villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: West Bank: Decade of Occupation | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...choice for Defense Minister would become the new overseer, may even withdraw the army occupation force and replace it with border police. Says Weizman: "I think we should start changing our Arab and military government policies. If I discover misuse of power, humiliation on purpose, or mishandling of the civilian population, heads will be chopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: West Bank: Decade of Occupation | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...Civilian astronaut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Big Puzzle: Who Makes What and Why | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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