Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latter are classified 1-0 and permitted under the law "to perform civilian work contributing to the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest"-usually in hospitals or non-profit social agencies. About 5,000 C.O.s are engaged in such chores in the U.S. and nine foreign countries. Says a selective service official: "You have to be sincere to do the jobs they do. Pushing a bedpan around a mental hospital soon begins to wear pretty thin if you aren...
Today, as absolute ruler of every civilian and military police and intelligence agency in the country, Loan (pronounced low-on) commands a force of 65,000, serves as Ky's eyes and ears-and sometimes fist. It was Loan who cracked down on the Buddhists during last spring's riots in Hué and Danang. He has taken over control of Saigon's sloppy port security, sharply reducing theft and graft, is currently using his National Police to clean up An Khanh, a shantytown across the Saigon River that seethes with smugglers and bandits. Southerners accuse...
...exceeded by the annual return alone on Bobby's fortune of perhaps $15 million.) What brought them together, after they patched up an unseemly fracas over whether Lindsay had been rude to Kennedy, is a proposition on the November ballot for voter approval of Lindsay's new civilian-dominated police-review board, which has come under heavy attack by conservatives who consider it a crimp in police efficiency. Lindsay and Kennedy, together with New York's elder statesman, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, have joined forces to support the board. It is the kind of impeccable cause that...
...November, 327 statewide propositions will appear on the ballot in 46 states, plus countless others on local ballots, many of them placed there by citizens' petition campaigns. Thanks to petitions, New York City voters will decide on the city's new civilian-dominated police review board, Nebraskans will vote on the state's recently enacted income tax laws, and Columbus residents will determine whether they want to keep their old Central Market - even though it has already been razed. In California, where petitioners succeeded in getting a dubious anti-obscenity measure on the ballot (TIME, Sept...
...deprecating the methods the U.S. is using in Vietnam, Thomas asked for an end to "bacteriological warfare," and the bombing of civilian populations. More people are homeless or in hospitals because of U.S. bombing than because of the Viet Cong, Thomas said...