Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missiles still in the north have been placed in residential neighborhoods or amid historic ruins, where, the Iraqis know, Washington's sensitivities will keep U.S. bombs at bay. A handful of American planes are dropping some bombs crammed with concrete instead of explosives to minimize the chance of civilian casualties...
...civilian security officer working in the post was killed...
...Kosovo, which was a far more serious development in Russian domestic politics than the West realized at the time." Back then the Kremlin found itself playing catch-up as the generals ordered their men to seize Pristina airport, and right now in Chechnya it's unclear if the civilian political leaders or the generals are in charge. "The military is certainly making clear that it plans to finish the job that the Kremlin didn't let it finish in 1996," says Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
...divided along personality, ethnic and ideological lines - some key groups boycotted the New York meeting to avoid being tainted as U.S. pawns - as to make it something of a fiction in the real strategic equation. The military training that begins in Florida this week involves teaching four men, in civilian attire, such topics as the role of the military in a democracy. Not exactly menacing stuff, but it may reflect what's being left unspoken. "The prime strategic concern remains to avoid the breakup of Iraq," says Thompson, "and as long as Saddam's in power that can be avoided...
According to the sources cited in the report, President Clinton chose to follow the recommendation of his civilian advisers over the reservations expressed by the military and the CIA over bombing the Sudan plant. "There was certainly a sense that the administration needed to make some kind of gesture in response to the embassy bombings, to be seen to be doing something," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They were experimenting with cruise missiles as a low-risk way of dealing with these issues, but the Sudan strike showed how that can backfire. We also have to ask whether...