Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even with agreement on the appropriate tribunal, questions would remain about precisely what crimes are punishable and who should be held responsible. Actions that breach the Geneva Conventions of 1949, to which Iraq is a signatory, are patently criminal: the use of civilians as human shields, the mistreatment of prisoners of war and the targeting of civilian populations. But was the polluting of the Persian Gulf during the second week of the conflict a war crime? There is room for doubt about the causes of the spill...
...Crimson or Katz would do well to explore Harvard's earlier debate on equity in military, or alternative civilian, service and its possible effect on assuring a responsible and responsive national security policy. Bayley F. Masen...
Media critics also maintain that television coverage portrayed American soldiers as monstrous killers with no qualms about killing Vietnamese civilians. But according to Hallin, TV reports attributed fewer than one-third of all civilian casualties from 1965 to 1973 to U.S. forces. The incredible tonnage of bombs dropped on Southeast Asia during the war--more than three times that of World War II--almost makes this a statistical impossibility. And of all the television time devoted to the war between 1965 and 1973, only 11.8 minutes focused on civilian casualties in North Vietnam...
...biggest civilian employer: 740,000 people. One out of every 160 employed Americans works at the Postal Service. People are 83% of our costs. Up to 14 different hands handle each piece of mail. We make a house call on every home and every business six days a week. We do it for 29 cents. Plumbers charge 58 bucks...
...blasts signaled not only an intensification of the organization's drive to oust the British from Northern Ireland but also a return to the tactics of the 1970s when civilian targets, including train and subway stations, were hit indiscriminately. That strategy was abandoned after a 1983 car bomb outside Harrods department store killed six people and caused a wave of revulsion against the I.R.A. But authorities fear that frustrated hard-liners have once again decided that bloody activity on the mainland is a far more effective way to prove that British rule in Ireland is untenable...