Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field, who happened to have a video camera, heard the commotion and shot a video of the scene. It was surreal, with the moon shrouded by fog in the darkness. People were yelling and running in all directions. Some of the soldiers apparently tackled the shooter. A civilian-issued M-16 rifle, a pistol and another weapon were confiscated by military investigators. The injuries ranged from superficial to critical. Most were shot in the chest and lower extremities. One was taken to Duke Medical Center. He was shot in the neck, but is expected to live. Contrary to earlier reports...
...fall into the wrong hands. Also more dangerous than bomb testing are the ethnic and religious wars, like the one raging in the Balkans. Such wars have claimed many more lives than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. We need not only a nuclear-free world but a world free of civilian atomic garbage. And above all, we need a world free of poor leadership. It has been said, if we seriously want to disarm, we must first disarm the spirit. ROGER FERDINAND LOUIS FAURE Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...from Higgins Professor of Biochemistry Jack L. Strominger '46 and Professor Don C. Wiley, winners of the prestigious Lasker Awards for medical research, to the Kennedy School's Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence A. Leon Higginbotham, who last month received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor...
Coleman, the former Secretary of Transportation, will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President Clinton this week...
...would recommend that Lat read the United States Constitution, specifically those sections which establish and defend the hegemony of civilian government. Thanks to the wisdom of the framers, General Powell did not possess the authority to topple Hussein's regime on his own initiative--that authority lay only with the civilian Commander-in-Chief, then President Bush. Furthermore, the U.N. mandate under which the allied acted, and by which the allies scrupulously abided, only allowed them to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control (which was accomplished) and it expressly forbade the overthrow of Baghdad by force of arms...