Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans, including former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and a Harvard Medical School graduate will receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced yesterday...
...direct involvement of Pakistani forces in the incursion. "Without the logistical and artillery support of the Pakistani army, the intruders would be mopped up pretty quickly," says Rahman. "If the intruders fight on, that may be a sign that Pakistan?s military isn?t under the control of its civilian political leaders." And that?s a frightening prospect in an economically and politically fragile, nuclear-armed state...
...traditions--"a Drenica person opens his heart to no man," says a longtime friend--have given Thaci a secretive, lone-wolf personality ill suited to democratic politics. At dinner that reserve undercut his every attempt to sound Western and humanistic. When asked what his plans were for the Serbian civilian minority that remains in Kosovo, he assured us its inclusion was important to rebuilding the province. "We're not interested in building parallel, segregated elements," he said. But when pressed repeatedly for an explanation of the retaliatory violence against the Serbs by rebel Albanians in recent days, he flashed...
...also pacifists, but believe that your actions come back to you threefold and are prepared to accept the consequences of what they do as soldiers. That the Army would be so progressive in its acceptance makes perfect sense to the Wiccans. "The Army has always been ahead of the civilian world on things like racial and sexual equality," says high priestess Palmer, a former military policewoman. "They're just a lot more tolerant. When you're in a foxhole, you don't care what religion the guy next to you belongs to." Army witches even have a sense of humor...
...know a flatfoot who might like to walk the streets of Pristina, give Kofi Annan a call. The U.N. secretary general convened an urgent meeting of 18 foreign ministers Wednesday to plan for reconstruction in Kosovo, and appealed for member countries to supply personnel for a civilian police force for the beleaguered province. "The military isn?t trained to keep the peace when it comes to local-level confrontations between groups of two or three people," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. And with only half of the envisaged peacekeeping complement of 50,000 actually deployed so far, lawlessness...