Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson met them both head-on in a steely 40-minute speech that neatly divided his critics. To the left he offered the assurance that "there is no question of our sending troops to Viet Nam," adding that if the U.S. bombed civilian population centers in North Viet Nam, Britain would disavow its support. On the other hand, he said, Britain would not withdraw from Asia and leave it "to the Americans and Chinese, eyeball to eyeball, to face this thing out." That, said Wilson, "is the surest prescription for a nuclear holocaust I could think of. 'World...
...else for the riots. The Provos blamed the police-for using what they claimed was undue force against demonstrators. The police, in turn, blamed the Provos. Conserva tives blamed the welfare state. Every one else blamed the 90° heat. Who ever was to blame, the result was 109 civilians and policemen injured, one civilian dead...
...Pentagon gets preference on the production lines, and heavy military demand has led to a shortage of jet engines for the civilian market. With delivery delays as long as a month, United, Braniff, Delta, and other lines are planning to postpone new services or make do with piston planes. Two weeks ago, Eastern canceled 5% of its flights "temporarily;" Eastern has enough piston planes for those runs-but, oddly, not enough pilots with sufficient piston training. Promising a "round-the-clock" program to familiarize its jet-age crews with the old planes, Eastern said that it would be back...
...bomb would have been delayed at least a month and more likely several months. The hundreds of bits of information and suggestions received from people in the U.S. and Europe were appreciated and evaluated carefully. But the plaudits for this highly successful operation properly belong to the patriotic civilian and military personnel of TF-65, who so diligently and systematically employed their knowledge of the sea and effectively utilized the accurate contact information generated by TF-65 ships and equipment in accomplishing this unprecedented feat...
...government told it, the principal plotters were Evariste Kimba, who had been the Congo's last civilian Premier, and onetime (until 1964) Finance Minister Emmanuel Bamba. Together with two other ex-Ministers they were accused of trying to get the Leopoldville army garrisons to rise against Mobutu. The attempt failed, charged the regime, only because the officers with whom they were plotting remained secretly loyal to Mobutu-and the authorities arrested them hours before the uprising was supposed to have started...