Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SARANDE, Albania: Albania edged closer to all-out civil war as government military jets bombed a southern village and armed civilians clashed with army forces. Reports say a Chinese-made MiG-15 warplane sailed over the port of Livena and dropped up to three bombs on the town, causing an unknown amount of damage. Although the government denies its forces are attacking civilians, crew members of a military jet that defected to southern Italy on Tuesday said they had been given orders to bomb civilian targets. President Sali Barisha has launched a major security operation to quell the unrest, which...
...Square massacre. With Deng's help he took on all the posts that matter: President, General Secretary of the party, chairman of the Central Military Commission. But Jiang did not let it rest at titles. He went on to build a network beholden to him. He fired scores of civilian, military and police officials and filled their jobs with his own appointees. He promoted Shanghai colleagues to the Politburo and shook up regional party organizations. During the past seven years he has done very well for a leader supposedly without a power base...
Since taking office, Giuliani has crippled the Civilian Review Board and supported the New York Police Department (NYPD) in all actions, at best ignoring and oftentimes supporting white supremacist officers in their destruction of civil rights. When the New York Civil Liberties Union found that the number of police brutality claims had risen 32 percent in one year during his tenure, Mayor Giuliani did not rush to scrutinize his army in blue, but blasted the report...
When I see a mayor gutting a Civilian Review Board, saying that it has no right or authority to monitor the police department, I begin to wonder about the "democracy" in which I reside. When I see white New Yorkers and the media--with the single exception of the Village Voice--ignoring the rise in police brutality cases and praising the Giuliani administration's "tough on crime" stance, I wonder what kind of community the United States...
...Force review of an uncomfortably close encounter between an F-16 and a passenger jet preparing to land at JFK airport in New York has concluded that the military air traffic controller was responsible for the incident. While the Nations Air flight had been cleared by civilian controllers to approach JFK, military air traffic control failed to inform the F-16 pilot that the airliner was in the area. While the F-16 pilot?s commander quickly instructed him to veer away from the airliner, Air Force officials so far have no plans to reprimand the pilot for hanging frighteningly...