Word: civilianized
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...addition, Walsh threatened to counter-sue,charging Evers with public dissemination ofobscene material. A clerk magistrate in thedistrict court found that charge groundless, butgranted Evers' civilian complaint, beginning theprocess leading to today's trial
...GULF WAR IN 1991, VARIOUS American journalists, businessmen, even a bomb-disposal expert have found themselves in Iraqi jails after wandering across the border with Kuwait. In most cases they were held for a few days or weeks and then quietly released. But last week when two civilian defense contractors were detained after straying into southern Iraq, State Department officials were worried that this time they might not be so fortunate...
...Clinton Administration has branded as "hogwash" a claim by the speaker of the Iraqi parliament that thetwo Americans arrested just inside Iraqlast week were U.S. saboteurs. The two, civilian workers William Barloon and David Daliberti, were sentenced Saturday to eight years in prison for entering the country illegally, though they said they were visiting a friend just across the border from Kuwait. At home, the White House fought GOP calls to consider a military rescue mission if Iraq does not release the men. Sunday, presidential candidate Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said President Clinton should publicly weigh military options, while...
There is another side to the story not visible in the scrapbook or part of the government's tour. To see it, one must meet clandestinely with F.I.S. contacts who, in fearful asides, offer tales of summary killings by government security forces. Terrified civilians whisper of special execution brigades, dressed in civilian clothes, that roam the country hunting down and murdering Islamists. City residents say police patrols have fired at random into civilian crowds after being ambushed. In February, the same month in which the government quelled a riot in the Serkadji prison by killing more than 96 prisoners-Islamists...
...incompetence, embarked on an ill-fated attempt at reform in 1989. After the government reluctantly agreed to the first free elections in 29 years of independence, army generals pulled the plug when the F.I.S. won a plurality in the first round of voting. The generals installed a puppet civilian government rather than allow a second-round electoral victory for the fundamentalists, whose draconian vision of an Islamic republic had capitalized on the anger and discontent of millions of the young, poor and unemployed...