Word: civilianized
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...zippy rhythms, he provided intelligent amusement to millions of boys and girls who might otherwise be transported to the Saturday- morning cartoon swampland of death rays and superheroes. In the process, he was amply rewarded: his 10 albums sold 6 million copies, and he was awarded Canada's highest civilian decoration...
More generally, Bush's proposals might bolster Gorbachev's and Yeltsin's chances to cut military spending and devote more resources to the crippled civilian economy. The nuclear cutbacks Bush envisions will not save much money for either the U.S. or the Soviets; some of them indirectly increase costs. "Disarmament is sometimes costly," admits Pavel Palashenko, a Gorbachev aide. But the proposals do give Gorbachev and Yeltsin a chance to argue that the U.S. is not taking advantage of Soviet economic weakness to seek military advantage...
...agreement also pledges to transfer the police force from military to civilian control and permit former rebels to join it. Moreover, the two sides agreed to reduce the size of the army and purge officers notorious for human rights abuses. Still unresolved are the timing of a cease-fire and the disarming of the guerrillas...
...Georgia hostilities deepened as renegade national guardsmen joined civilian efforts to oust Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the republic's authoritarian president. About 60 rebel guardsmen were reported killed in a clash with republic troops . . . The seizure of power in Tadzhikistan by Rakhman Nabiev, a hard-line former Communist Party chief, prompted thousands of people to defy a newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among...
Policing a cease-fire, however, depended on gaining a cease-fire, chances for which were going up in smoke. Ultimately, the WEU was asked to "study" how to improve protection of the 200 unarmed E.C. civilian monitors already in Yugoslavia. The union is in a poor position to do more: it has no military command structure or troops at its disposal. Any West European force that might intervene would surely consist of British and French troops in the main, supported by NATO logistics...