Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City, the most heated issue concerned the fate of Mayor John Lindsay's civilian-dominated police review board, set up last summer to hear and sift charges of police malfeasance or brutality. Most top politicians of both parties campaigned for the board. The police bitterly opposed it, and the majority (63%) of voters agreed that the board would inhibit the cop on the beat and send the crime rate soaring. The board was summarily killed...
...mailed fist of U.S. power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations take place, most U.S. officers in Viet Nam think the U.S. will need to be around for a long time in force to ensure that all the local Viet Cong, from village cops to schoolteachers, are identified...
...show, immediately donated a pint of blood, then spent the next 18 hours making herself genuinely useful as a nurse. "She was terrific," said a sergeant, and last week General William Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Viet Nam, honored her with a rare Certificate of Achievement for patriotic civilian service for her "unselfish, humanitarian actions...
...himself. The antipathy held towards this man by many students -- "radicals" and some non-radicals as well -- is hard to describe. It was voiced on Monday afternoon in the anguished cries of "Don't you care?" that answered the Secretary's admission that he didn't know how many civilian casualties U.S. troops had caused. Many students who heard McNamara Monday could only describe him in superlatives -- "one of the most callous, arrogant men I have ever seen," said one. So intense was two students disgust that they were prepared at first to dump bloody bones at the Secretary...
...Policemen's Benevolent Association has convinced us that with the passing of the Civilian Review Board there should be No Crime. At least tomorrow...