Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such a response had been anticipated by General Groves, who argued all along to the Manhattan Project's civilian overseers that at least two atomic bombs would be necessary to effect Japan's surrender: the first to demonstrate the awful destructive power of a nuclear weapon and the second to convince the Japanese military that there were more where that came from...
...approval, and nothing can happen that is not in accordance with various U.N. resolutions regarding Bosnia. Air strikes, for example, have been subject to what was called the dual-key system: U.N. military commanders have had to ask for NATO warplanes to hit a specific target, and U.N. civilian representatives have had to approve the request. In the past that happened rarely and resulted in small attacks that were universally dismissed as "pinpricks...
...stood still for eight years under Dwight Eisenhower. Military duty in command positions is not the appropriate training for political office. Politics is the art of building consensus among diverse special interests rather than the art of commanding others. The presidency should be the culmination of a career in civilian government service rather than a prize for a beloved military hero. THEODORE M. UTCHEN Wheaton, Illinois...
Ultimately, many Burmese hope for a gradual return to civilian rule, with the military taking a backroom power- and money-sharing role, as it does in Thailand and Indonesia. But everything depends on Suu Kyi. Now she is free to walk from the house that has been her prison for six years. But is she free to travel? To take up her democratic campaign -- or, indeed, the mandate given to her by the Burmese people in 1990? That's almost certainly not the kind of freedom handed to her by the 21-general junta last week. The only thing that...
President Clinton is expected to approve the recommendations of thebase closingcommission tomorrow, after receiving assurances that up to8,000 civilian jobs in the politically sensitive state of California could be saved.Commission chairman Alan Dixon told the President that the jobs could be kept by privatizing much of the work currently done on the base...