Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara dismissed the argument that using the Army for such rehabilitation might overweight the importance of the military in American society. "We don't make any effort to militarize a civilian" while he is in uniform, he said...
...Democratic Party has chosen a mediocrity, Frank D. O'Connor, to run against Rockefeller. He has conducted a disorganized, lackluster campaign, which admittedly lacks Rockefeller's financial resources. To his credit, O'Connor has taken a few more liberal stands that Rockefeller (e.g., stronger support of the Civilian Review Board for New York City), but this is counterbalanced by an anti-civil libertarian record in the State Senate during the 1950's and an undistinguished performance as Queens County District Attorney and New York City Council President...
...hour performance that showed the President at his best. Soon after his arrival, the President paid" a visit to South Korea's flinty, austere President Chung Hee Park. Blending flattery and cajolery for the next hour, he lauded Park for steering Korea from military to civilian government, hastened to assure him that the U.S. was not seeking peace out of weakness but out of a desire to attack "the underlying roots of the problem-human misery." Noting that he had entered public life to help people, he told Park: "The place to do it is in Asia. Here...
...morning, and the streets were crowded, when a dozen an cient T-28s rattled over the city from the south. Working with remarkable precision, they avoided civilian targets, unloaded on army headquarters, the airport, and the command post of Royalist Army Strongman General Kouprasith Abhay. At the same time, a military radio station began broadcasting a declaration from coup-happy Laos' latest "Revolutionary Committee." The government had become too divided, proclaimed the communiqué, and the fault lay with the Royalists. Therefore, it went on, Kouprasith and a handful of other right-wing generals must be fired and replaced...
...Phoenix Gazette longer than most of the Saigon newswomen have been out of grade school. Since 1948, she has jetted through the sound barrier, been the first woman reporter to spend a day at sea aboard a submarine, and received an Air Force award for outstanding service by a civilian. Like most of the others, the soft-spoken brunette has studiously resisted being toughened into "one of the guys." Now in Viet Nam because "I felt I had to try explaining to the people at home what is going on," she has based herself in Danang. "I detest Saigon...