Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebel communique. "The aggressors failed in all their attacks. Along the Ruwandiz front, there are more than 1,000 bodies left by the Iraqi army. General Barzani has begged the International Red Cross to propose a one-day truce to remove these decomposing bodies, for the health of the civilian population is endangered." Radio Baghdad told it another way. "The Kurdish rebels," it said, "are collapsing. Sixty rebels were killed in the Barzan area, 75 in Khorman, 80 in Korah and 20 in Koti. The insurgents were so exhausted that they asked for a truce on the pretext of removing...
...against 10% in the infancy of copter medical aid in Korea. Though copters do get shot down, they have shown surprisingly low vulnerability. Having lost only one per 16,824 sorties, the Army figures that their Viet Nam life expectancy is ten years, considerably more than that of civilian autos at home...
...Green-Pea Run. Manufacturers, of course, are as delighted as the Pentagon with the improving technology of military helicopters. This year Fairchild-Hiller, Bell and Hughes will bring out utility and executive models based on military designs. Sikorsky sees a big civilian market for its Skycranes, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development has just put up $490,000 to test whether the Crane can fly a buslike pod of 40 passengers between airports and downtown-at costs competitive with ground travel...
...interesting material, schedule frequent guest speakers, usually Faculty members, both as a part of the curriculum and as part of a supplementary program. The ROTC faculty at Harvard recently participated in a review of the National ROTC curriculum. Lt. Col. George H. Garnhart met this fall with a military-civilian committee at Ohio State University to study the current curriculum. Their recommendations, although not yet made known, may be incorporated into the '67-'68 curriculum...
...Viet Cong have the advantage of being indistinguishable from the peasants, and as a result there is a very high rate of civilian casualties when the U.S. retaliates after Viet Cong attacks. "When your press reports that 600 Cong were killed in a military operation, that figure may include 590 innocent peasants," Nhat Hanh added...