Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military provisions of the Dayton accords, those agreements will not lead to a single, unified Bosnia; rather they have merely deferred the resumption of war or, at best, provided an interim stage on the road to partition. The basis for this view is the uncertain pace of implementing the civilian aspects of Dayton--economic reconstruction, return of refugees, prosecution of war criminals, preparation for elections. How valid is the new pessimism...
...uniformed officer and succeeded Admiral Frank Kelso as chief of Naval operations after the Tailhook scandal. Inheriting an institution battered by sex harassment and drug use charges, Boorda made it his mission to emphasize the need for honor among Naval forces. Boorda was highly respected in both military and civilian circles. Friday, Defense Secretary William J. Perry praised Boorda in a speech at Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base, making no mention of the decoration controversy. Perry said Boorda was an extraordinary patriot who cared most about rank-and-file sailors. "Nobody had more pride in his sailors," said Perry...
...uniformed officer and succeeded Admiral Frank Kelso as chief of Naval operations after the Tailhook scandal. Inheriting an institution battered by sex harassment and drug use charges, Boorda made it his mission to emphasize the need for honor among Naval forces. Boorda was highly respected in both military and civilian circles. Friday, Defense Secretary William J. Perry praised Boorda in a speech at Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base, making no mention of the decoration controversy. Perry said Boorda was an extraordinary patriot who cared most about rank-and-file sailors. "Nobody had more pride in his sailors," said Perry...
...wrecked on gays in the military in 1993, and he does not want a repeat of that now." Advocates of a worldwide ban on anti-personnel mines criticized the President for failing to take a stand to eliminate a weapon that kills more than 20,000 people, mostly civilian, every year, often long after a military confrontation has ended. Thousands of people continue to be maimed, for example, by mines put in place long ago in Cambodia, Afghanistan, and more recently in Bosnia and Croatia. "This is a failure of U.S. leadership but it will not stop the international effort...
Although the Dayton accord has brought a bare minimum of peace to the Balkans, even that will not last if implementation of the civilian provisions fails, and none is more crucial than the one promising that the men who held the club and the gun will be arrested and tried. "How can I ever go home," says Hamdija, a Muslim refugee in Sarajevo, "if the man who killed my father goes free...