Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adviser at nuclear test-ban negotiations with the Soviet Union. Recalls an associate: "He was intense, bright, driving and dynamic, but neither patient nor comfortable with people." In 1961, Brown became one of Robert McNamara's "whiz kids." At 33, he was given the Pentagon's third highest civilian job, director of defense research and engineering...
...Brown, dealing with the Pentagon's people is the hardest part of his job "because there are so many of them [about 2.1 million military and 1 million civilian employees] and because the institution they constitute is not easy to change. The toughness of the structure is a strength. It will run even if nobody's hand is on the tiller, though it might go where you don't want it to go. But it's a weakness if you want to change the institution...
...gravest threat to their despotic rule since they overthrew U.S.-backed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. In and around the capital, the main opposition group is the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (E.P.R.P.), a Marxist organization, led primarily by students and young workers, that demands a return to civilian rule. E.P.R.P. has given the Dergue good reason to be nervous: it has assassinated more than 20 government officials, mounted at least one daring raid...
...Cambridge City Council last night gave initial approval to a proposal to create the position of a civilian police commissioner to head the Cambridge police department...
...civilian police commissioner would be in charge of police-community relations, policy, and management, while the police chief would administer the department's operations...