Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earnest, self-effacing civilian engineer who was to have commanded the Gemini 9 mission, had spent six years checking out the hottest planes aloft as a General Electric test pilot when he became an astronaut in 1962. Bassett, an outgoing Air Force major who was to have taken a 60-minute walk in space during the flight toting an instrument-crammed, 166-lb. pack on his back, served as a fighter pilot in Korea and a test pilot at California's Edwards Air Force Base before joining the space program...
General Joseph Arthur Ankrah, chairman of the National Liberation Committee that now ruled Ghana, got work going on a new constitution that would eventually return the nation to civilian rule. "We do not want to have a dictatorship again," he said. In the meantime, all political parties would be banned. Ankrah also announced that new stamps and coins had already been ordered to replace those bearing The Redeemer's face...
...than Kwame Nkrumah did in Ghana. Another is Niger, which has grown sullen and restive after Hamani Diori's eight years of corruption and mismanagement. Strife between northerners and southerners keeps tension high in Senegal, Chad, Mauritania and Mali, and has already plunged the Sudan's new civilian government into civil...
...plan to herd people with their unhusked rice into concentration centers and to use toxic chemicals in the massacre of our compatriots." Then there is the subtler approach, such as paying calls on the wives of Vietnamese troops "to inquire about the health of their husbands" and thus undermine civilian morale. Or, when an air attack is over, one might transport "the most typical victim of U.S. bombs and shells" -meaning, of course, the most mutilated-"to the boroughs, towns and cities" for public display...
...returning to normality. Normality, of course, did not mean friendship. Not when the emotional question of Kashmir was involved. But at least the two nations, under terms of the Tashkent agreement, were talking together again-to the vast relief of both Washington and Moscow. Besides the troop pullback and civilian exchange, commercial flights between India and Pakistan have been resumed, diplomatic relations fully reestablished, some mail and telegraph services put back in operation. Last week India's turbaned Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh flew into Rawalpindi at the head of a 23-man delegation to discuss further "normalization...