Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...darkness settled on Gorazde, neither scenario came to pass. Instead, Yasushi Akashi, the U.N.'s chief civilian representative in Bosnia, suddenly announced that he was close to signing a pact with the Serbs. According to Akashi, the U.N. would stop combat air patrols above Gorazde if the Serbs agreed to a cease-fire and released U.N. personnel held across Bosnia beginning last Monday. The Serbs must also withdraw to the outskirts of Gorazde and allow a multinational U.N. protection force to police the front lines around the city. The deal, brokered with the help of Russian mediator Vitali Churkin, offered...
...horrified Pentagon officials quickly discovered, however, the two / choppers were not Hinds but U.S. Black Hawks. On board were 21 allied military and civilian officials, including 15 Americans and five Kurds; all of them perished. They had been on their way to meet with Kurdish leaders in the northern Iraq town of Salahuddin, part of the safe haven created for the Kurds after the Gulf War. The crews of all five aircraft in the tragedy were slated to attend a rehearsal one day earlier in which they had reviewed flight routes, radio frequencies and the timing of Thursday's mission...
...distinctions between the academies and civilian schools blur, the ! military honor code is what sets them apart. But that too is under attack, most recently in the biggest cheating scandal in Annapolis history. A special Navy panel recommended on March 31 that the Navy Secretary punish 71 members of the class of 1994, 29 of them by expulsion, for cheating on a 1992 engineering exam. What outraged many academy supporters, including some admirals, was the unsuccessful lawsuit, filed by 40 midshipmen implicated in the scandal, seeking to halt the panel's work. The middies contended their constitutional rights were violated...
...reasons for the hysteria are uncertain. Diplomats and fearful foreign residents believe the rumors are being deliberately spread to incite violence and derail the civilian government's fast-moving peace negotiations with leftist guerrillas of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, who have fought a 33-year civil war. In recent years hundreds of human-rights observers and peace supporters -- the majority from the U.S. and Europe -- have flocked to Guatemala to work with and help protect local activists. Some conservatives and editorialists have called for these foreigners to be thrown out of the country...
...incidents were planned by one group. Diplomatic sources say two military intelligence agents were reported among the rioters in Santa Lucia. "The only institution with the capacity to act in various areas of the country, that can spread the rumors and incite the population through a vast network of civilian collaborators, is the army," contends a local human-rights expert...