Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wayne Gilbert, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, complains of a continuing influx of Russian agents disguised as businessmen and tourists. In the Belgian episode, SVR spies had targeted a sensitive nato battlefield communications system. Elsewhere in Europe, the Russians have shown interest in everything from electronic banking systems to civilian computer software with potential military applications...
...extremist groups, such as the murderous Abu Nidal organization, once supported by communist bloc countries. The Russians could use assistance in gearing up against potential terrorist threats from increasingly militant ethnic groups in the former Soviet empire. Moscow is also in line for advice on how to operate civilian oversight of intelligence activities in a democracy, assistance that the CIA is already giving to a number of ex-Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe...
...could afford to pay robber-baron wages to mere managers. The medical system offered first-class care to most citizens while turning physicians into millionaires. The Social Security fund distributed inflation-indexed payments to the elderly, regardless of need. No new weapon was too costly for the military. The civilian space program, in spite of some setbacks, was dazzling. The farms produced more food than the people could possibly consume. Best of all, these and many other benefits were provided or subsidized by the government at far less than their overall cost. The nation had problems -- poverty, homelessness, drugs, declining...
...sobering effect of the Los Angeles riots also made itself felt in the primary with the overwhelming 67%-to-33% passage of a local ballot initiative, Charter Amendment F, which will impose greater civilian authority over the Los Angeles police chief. Lame-duck chief Daryl Gates, clearly the target of many of the yes voters, complained that they had been "sold a bill of goods." But Los Angeles' Urban League president John Mack called it "a home run for justice...
Finally, impelled by scenes of civilian slaughter in Sarajevo, the U.S. and its European allies went to work last week to impose economic sanctions on Serbia. The Serbs, who fill the ranks of both regular and irregular forces, are now seen as the main aggressors in the war in the ruins of Yugoslavia...