Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with the Israelis is that they are too damn decent and moral. Arabs are without scruples, and where it suits their purposes they break cease-fire agreements, employ paramilitary terrorists, plant bombs in marketplaces, hijack and shoot at Israeli civilian planes, kill Jews and their gentile sympathizers in Europe and America, enlist the use of U.N. agencies in their cause, and generally ignore civilized conduct and international laws and norms. It is time that the Israelis also ignored international conventions and played the same immoral game...
...Viet Nam. The overriding aim of his administration, particularly during his first three years, was to assuage the bitterness of the city's black citizens. In doing so, he managed to increase white resentment and fears. The first test came in 1966 when he tried to organize a civilian review board to hear complaints of police brutality. Lindsay was cast in the role of a softie trying to shackle honest cops; the review-board referendum was defeated. A less stubborn, less
...bloodless takeover itself was un remarkable in a country which, during its 144-year history, has had 185 changes of government, mostly by coups. The ousted civilian President, Lawyer Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, was serving' as Vice President last April when President René Barrientos, the flamboyant ex-air chief, was killed in a helicopter crash. Ovando, the army chief and Barrientos' partner in the 1964 coup against Victor Paz Estenssoro, was in the U.S. at the time. Except for that fact, he almost certainly would have seized power then...
Ovando's first acts were the sort designed to pacify his juniors. He named a "really revolutionary" civilian-military Cabinet whose oldest member is 44. He scrapped the code under which Gulf operates in Bolivia as "prejudicial," emulating Peru's recent takeover of the International Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Gulf, which now pays Bolivia 30% of its profits and 11 % of the oil it pumps, may be pressured to hand over part ownership of the subsidiary...
...code has been tested in the highest civilian and military courts this year by dissenting servicemen at home who complain of biased courts-martial, harsh sentences, prolonged pretrial imprisonment without bail and military efforts to stifle free speech. In a decision last summer that restricts the military's authority to prosecute servicemen for off-base crimes, the U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether a court-martial is really a fair trial or just another means of enforcing discipline. "A civilian trial is held in an atmosphere conducive to the protection of individual rights," wrote Justice William O. Douglas...