Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comic opera style, of the downfall of the dictator of an imaginary Caribbean nation around the time of the First World War. An enlightened despot who prefers vacationing in Paris to tyrannizing his country, the unnamed Head of State returns to suppress revolts by trusted generals, crush his civilian opposition, and reflect the tedium...
...times the towns in the zone have the feel of, say, Longview, Texas. There are 10,000 Zonians-civilian Americans who live there. The rest of the 35,000 Americans in the zone are mostly military personnel and their dependents -not real Zonians, as they define themselves. A total of 45 churches serve the population. Local Boy Scouts are active. The zone has Little Leagues, an Elks Club, Masons, Knights of Columbus, two American Legion clubs, ROTC at Balboa and Cristobal High Schools, gun clubs, credit unions, six riding clubs, four beaches, four yacht clubs...
...American multinationals," they first attempted to defeat him through parliamentary maneuvers, economic sabotage, or a victory in the 1973 congressional elections. When it became apparent that his popular support was growing, they carefully prepared to take power without provoking a civil war and then to run the country without civilian allies...
...godfather, the American military has equipped, trained and educated armies in Latin America whose exaggerated prestige and lack of legitimate purpose leads them to rebellion. And they have rebelled. With the Argentine coup of last month, there are now only two South American nations--Venezuela and Columbia--with nominally civilian governments. Allende's failure to appreciate the extent of this American influence, shaping the military's new role, was largely responsible for his downfall...
Pauline Swift, a member of the Social Action Committee of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, said that a citizen with a complaint about the police department would feel better talking to a civilian head of the department...