Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week. The general responded by threatening to bomb the rebels out of the occupied barracks. When the leftist soldiers, in control of 700 tons of light arms and ammunition, refused to move, General Pires Veloso backed down and called off the alert. By week's end clashes between civilian supporters and opponents of the soldiers had resulted in more than 50 injuries...
...mutiny at Oporto provoked a flurry of other military and civilian protests. The demand for "internal democracy" within the armed forces-meaning the right of the troops to debate every military decision-was asserted by regiments throughout the country. At the headquarters of the 1st Light Artillery Regiment outside Lisbon, hundreds of left-wing soldiers, sailors and airmen gathered to protest what they called Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo's attempt to restore "a right-wing dictatorship under the cover of social democracy." The mutinous military men joined some 3,000 civilians chanting such slogans as "Fascists...
...exchange of coup threats between Communists and Socialists culminated a severe spate of military and civilian disorder. It began with a series of violent protests by veterans of Portugal's African wars. They included an abortive attempt to kidnap the Pinheiro de Azevedo Cabinet and peaked when a leftist mob looted and burned the Spanish embassy, consulate and ambassador's residence in Lisbon, causing some $22 million in damages...
...Brownmiller argues, women are usually the biggest losers-the targets of savage rape, mutilation and torture, or simply part of the natural rewards enjoyed by invaders. She also sees rape as a conscious military tactic to break the will of a civilian population (e.g., the actions of the German army in Belgium and France at the start of World War I). Gang rape appears throughout history as a recurring punishment. The Mundurucu Indians of Brazil prescribed gang rape for any woman who spied on the sacred musical instruments used by men. Missourians gang-raped Mormon women in driving the sect...
...Roosevelt never breakfasted on grilled millionaire, America's class structure wasn't significantly changed during his tenure either. But Mora gives his audience a glimpse of the millions who gained employment through F.D.R.'s pet programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration. We see a policeman sternly advising an itinerant freight train rider to "Return where you came from and collect relief and find a government...