Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later, he found that "confusion and disorder reigned in every department." The Army has come some way since then, and U.S. military installations round the world plan to mark the 200th anniversary this week with ceremonies and pageants. Later Army exhibits will emphasize contributions made by the military to civilian life. These include the building of the Panama Canal as well as some lesser-known examples of Army pioneering: development of freeze-dried foods and the invention of the aerosol...
...returns from this massive investment can be seen in striking ways. There are an estimated 1,000 Soviet military advisers in Iraq, as well as hundreds of civilian technicians. Another 1,000 civilian technicians are in Syria. Despite Anwar Sadat's 1972 expulsion order, as many as 2,000 Soviet technicians and an equal number of dependents remain in Egypt...
...Beirut crackled with small-arms fire as Lebanese Christians celebrated. Last week the military government bowed out after three days, and again the city popped with gunfire. This time it came from Beirut's Moslem neighborhoods, rejoicing that Franjieh had asked former Premier Rashid Karami to head a civilian government. The change in leadership was precipitated by the latest in a series of clashes between the country's Moslem majority (about 60%) and Christian minority that have troubled Lebanon (pop. 3.2 million) throughout its 32 years as a nation...
...American AID personnel and third-country employees of the mission from Laos by the end of this month. After a one-minute filmed signing of the agreement, and a seven-hour delay by the students the next day, the occupation ended. The three Americans, two Marine guards and a civilian who had barricaded themselves inside the compound for a week, emerged tired and worn, but unharmed. "It was one week in hell," said Sergeant Donald E. Wilburn, 26, of Osgood...
...after midnight one day last week when several dozen long-haired Laotian students scaled the 9-ft. wire fence surrounding the sprawling USAID compound in Vientiane, Laos' administrative capital. After several hundred reinforcements were bused in the next morning, the students kept two U.S. Marines and one U.S. civilian locked inside the main buildings. They also ransacked the compound, liberating cases of American beer from the commissary...