Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week they organized peaceful demonstrations all over the I Corps area, shut down Danang, where Thi's head quarters were located, with an all-day general strike. In Saigon, 10,000 gath ered at the Buddhist Center to hear bonzes demand elections and a return to civilian rule...
...most damaging drumfire of criticism, day after day, came from a police department that over the years had become a powerful and sacrosanct kingdom unto itself. As part of his platform to save the city from despair and dissension, Lindsay had pledged to create a civilian review board to investigate complaints of police brutality. The incumbent commissioner and the department as a whole objected violently to such "interference...
...Guatemala, after three years of military government, Strongman Enrique Peralta permitted more than 450,000 Guatemalans to go to the polls and in a free and open election reject two military candidates in favor of a civilian: Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 50, leader of the moderate Revolutionary Party. The quiet, colorless dean of the University of Guatemala's law school, Méndez Montenegro promised to promote new industry, head off inflation and, most important of all, create a government completely free of military influence. He rolled up more votes in Guatemala City than...
...refueling tanker. The first three bombs -and four crew members-were quickly recovered. The fourth bomb was still missing. Though the bombs were unarmed and protected by radiation-proof shields, the U.S. was understandably anxious to get them all back. To that end, seven hundred U.S. airmen, soldiers, civilian technicians and Spanish troops were scouring a ten-sq.-mi. coastal area near Palomares, and 16 ships-including three deep-sea subs-were combing the ocean floor. All they turned up were 200 chunks of metal, ranging from one of the aircraft's latrines...
Died. Elliot M. See Jr., 38, civilian astronaut slated to command next May's Gemini 9 mission; with his capsule copilot, Air Force Major Charles A. Bassett II, 34, in the crash of their T-38 jet trainer at St. Louis' Lambert Field (see THE NATION...