Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civilian legal system should adopt the military procedure of a complete pretrial investigation because many of the innocent are weeded out before litigation, Bailey said...
...over again at the top of her lungs. That was in vain, for beyond the city limits there was no one to hear her. She had assumed that her captors were police, but when she studied them more closely she saw that they too were dressed in the civilian style of secret agents. As they proceeded along the dark road, she tumbled off the roadway, intentionally leaping into a paddy field. Before the men regained control of her she slipped her secret document, the application form from the Shanghai Party organization, out of the corner of her waistcoat. As fast...
...first of the old alphabet agencies set up to create jobs in the 1930s was F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which in nine years sent 2.5 million young men to the nation's forests and parklands to cut trails, build fire towers, chop brush and plant nearly 2 billion trees. Last week President Carter proposed in effect to resurrect the CCC as part of a $1.8 billion program to put youths to work...
Some estimates placed the week's death toll as high as 3,000, including 2,000 officers and men from Amin's 21,000-man army and 700 from the national police. In one particularly vengeful operation, Amin's marines were said to have killed every civilian they could find in Akoroko, the native village of Milton Obote...
...Civilian consumer goods are virtually nonexistent in Uganda today. Butter, milk, meat and eggs are in short supply, and what there is must be bought for hard-currency cash from Kenya. Basics, like clothing, are all but unobtainable, except at exorbitant prices. Window displays look impressive, but most of the cans and cartons on display are actually empty...