Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnam." According to several reports the U.S. continues to supply the South Vietnamese Army with military strategy and logistics through twelve "liaison men" stationed throughout Vietnam. Article Five excludes "technical military personnel and...advisers...to all paramilitary organizations and the police force." While the presence of the civilian technical personel doesn't specifically violate Article Five, their presence certainly violates the spirit of the law, as does the presence of the C.I.A. in Vietnam, which reputedly helps the Saigon police force collect information on political dissenters...
Walter J. Sullivan submitted the following to The Crimson as his "full statement" on the police civilian investigative unit...
...service work. They will be given "undesirable discharges" and must pledge to take a compensatory job, but will lose only the benefit of changing their discharge to one termed a "clemency discharge" if they fail to do so. Neither type of discharge is a legal barrier to employment in civilian jobs; both deny veterans' benefits to the holder. Few deserters are likely to find two years of enforced labor worth the distinction...
Contrasting Fates. The first men seeking to turn themselves in to civilian authorities met contrasting fates. Doug Bitle, 28, flew to San Francisco from Vancouver and basked in a well-publicized welcome. But he was unable to get any definitive information on his case by telephone from the U.S. Attorney's office. Unwilling to surrender without legal advice, he contends that every lawyer he contacted wanted between $500 and $2,500 to take his case, so he returned to Vancouver. "If I had had the opportunity to do valid public service four years ago," he says, "I never would...
...Civilian Victims. The Israeli assaults are designed to keep the fedayeen off balance and to cut the so-called "Arafat trail" between Syria and Israel. They also serve a second purpose: putting pressure on Lebanon to police the Palestinians. But the main victims over the years have not been the mobile commandos but the Lebanese families who live in the border villages. Among the victims of last week's raids was the septuagenarian mukhtar (headman) of Hasbaya; he was the 137th civilian to be killed so far. In addition, 402 Lebanese have been wounded and 91 have been captured...