Word: civilianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Goddam Lawyers. The second report on the scandal was written by a general and a civilian lawyer who investigated charges that West Point defense attorneys for the accused cadets had been harassed and penalized for doing their job. Some of the charges proved to be true. General Ulmer complained: "The goddam lawyers are ruining the Army." The general, the report declared, "does not understand the role of the military lawyer. In our opinion, his remarks were unjustified and harassing, as claimed." Some West Pointers feel Ulmer has been made "the fall guy" for the entire scandal. He is being replaced...
...from Pennsylvania, Leon Higgenbotham, who has extensive legal experience but little management background. The FBI choice posed a different challenge. Mondale, especially, urged that the FBI have a director from outside Justice, a man with few ties to Carter or his staff. Said Mondale: "We need a tough, hardheaded civilian to rehabilitate that place...
Died. Joao ("Jango") Goulart, 58, Brazil's last civilian President (1961-64); of a heart attack; in the Argentine province of Corrientes, where he lived in exile. A prosperous cattle rancher and lawyer, Goulart first gained prominence as Brazil's Labor Minister, a post he lost in 1954 after unsuccessfully promoting a 100% increase in the minimum wage. His presidential term was marked by controversy and disorder as he tried to lead his country on a leftist course amid economic crisis. The conservative armed forces, actively supported by business leaders, ousted Jango...
...West German units would be in better positions closer to the front. Large units of the American forces that are now concentrated in southern Germany could be shifted to reinforce the British Army of the Rhine in the more vulnerable north. But any troop shift must overcome formidable civilian obstacles, ranging from lengthy litigation to buy land to the outraged cries of conservationists. The U.S. is soon to assign a 3,800-man brigade to the Bremerhaven area; the negotiations for the base's lease took two years...
...Aeroflot? It can hardly be judged by the standards of a Western airline. The state-owned enterprise is the main provider of civilian air transport in the U.S.S.R. It ferries food supplies to oilmen on offshore rigs, sprays crops in the Ukraine, and keeps an eye on volcanoes on the Kamchatka peninsula. Even in its conventional passenger service, Aeroflot, with airports in 3,500 Soviet cities and towns and links to 70 foreign countries, from Peru to Benin, operates on a scale no other line can match. It carries more than twice as many passengers as United Air Lines...