Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guerillas took Afghanistan's capital city Friday morning with little resistance and quickly hanged a former president. They later set up an interim ruling council and declared Islamic law. Government forces that had been opposing the rebels withdrew north of the Kabul Thursday night, saying they wanted to avoid civilian casualties. Members of the Taliban, a rebel group led by ex-seminary students, stormed the city at about 1 a.m. Friday from several directions. They quickly located former President Najibullah and his brother at a U.N compound, where they had been hiding since losing power four years ago. TIME...
...looking for programs that help the President appear relevant. Morris' gift is to be a psychological trip wire for Clinton, pushing ideological gambits so far across the spectrum that Clinton can just say no. When the consultant wanted Clinton to roll back racial preferences, impose constitutionally dubious restrictions on civilian militias and launch federal roundups of illegal aliens, Clinton vetoed the ideas each time. In that sense, the lesson of the Morris years may be that it takes an adviser with no core ideology to make Bill Clinton search...
Before dawn last Thursday, a dark blue Volvo stopped alongside a World War II memorial in Moscow, and Alexander Lebed, the country's most talked-about politician, stepped out. The retired general was wearing civilian clothes but marched with characteristic ramrod posture into the Church of St. George the Victorious, patron saint of Russian warriors. From there the Secretary of Moscow's Security Council and now special envoy to Chechnya sped to the airport for his second journey last week in search of peace in that war-trampled republic...
ACQUITTED. DEBRA L. MEEKS, 41, Air Force major; of sodomy; in San Antonio, Texas. Accused of having a two-year live-in relationship with civilian Pamela Dillard, Meeks refused to state her sexual orientation throughout the trial. Her lawyers argued that the case violated the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for homosexuals...
...placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang-ju province. The police action left some 200 dead, and Kwang-ju became a rallying cry for Korean dissidents. Roh succeeded Chun in 1988 and ruled until the current civilian president, Kim Young-sam, won power in 1992. It was Kim who began the reforms that led to the trial and conviction of the two former presidents. Roh's attorneys are expected to appeal his sentence, and an appeal of Chun's death sentence is automatic. TIME's Stella...