Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Early in the week, during a left-wing demonstration in support of amnesty for political prisoners (170 still remain in jail, although at least 400 others have been released since Franco's death), a student on the edge of the crowd was suddenly shot dead by an unidentified civilian. Most observers blamed the shooting on an extremist right-wing group calling itself the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey (Guerrillas of Christ the King). Next day, at a hastily called rally to protest the student's murder, a young woman's skull was crushed by a smoke-grenade canister...
...Chinese released Downey in March 1973 after President Nixon admitted that the American was a CIA agent. The United States maintained for years that Downey was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army, and in 1954 the Defense Department said Chinese accusations of espionage against Downey "illustrate again the bad faith, insincerity and amorality" of the Chinese government...
This place cannot be run intuitively. I would warn about the problem of civilian control, with appointees moving in 18 months before getting up to speed on the job. This place works; it runs. It will run with you or without...
...presented them in writing to Carter last week. Kirbo says he does not know what the final shape of the Carter program will be, but he doubted that a blanket pardon would be extended to deserters. The probability seemed to be that Carter would pardon all the civilian draft evaders, including those already convicted of the crime, but find some means of dealing with the military cases-both deserters and holders of punitive discharges-on an individual review basis...
Facing Famine. Some of the Cuban soldiers in Angola have been replaced by civilian technicians, but they have not succeeded in bringing the country out of economic paralysis. In Luanda, meat, eggs, milk and bread are often unobtainable. A U.N. official visiting the city has warned that Angola faces not only widespread famine but the danger of tuberculosis and epidemics of dysentery. Largely because of the mass exodus of Portuguese whites, the country has only one doctor for every 12,000 people. The few foreign visitors allowed into the country are appalled by the chaos. Transportation and other public service...