Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total rooting out of the Viet Cong could be achieved, if at all, only at the cost of a degree of damage to civilian life for which I would not like to see this country responsible. To attempt to crush North Vietnamese strength to a point where Hanoi could no longer give any support for Viet Cong political activity in the South would almost certainly have the effect of bringing in Chinese forces, thus involving us in a military conflict with Communist China in one of the most unfavorable theaters of hostility that we could possibly choose...
...charm. As a general from the older generation, Khanh seemed to the young Turks lacking in the flexibility and idealism that South Viet Nam's social revolution required. Partly out of ambition, partly out of impatience, the younger officers themselves turned Khanh out, replaced him with a civilian physician and moderate, Dr. Phan Huy Quat, and his "medicine Cabinet." The officers genuinely wanted Quat's civilian government to work so that they could concentrate on prosecuting the war. But without a firm hand, all the old religious and fractional rivalries erupted anew. Quat asked the generals to take...
...tense war capital, revelry is almost an essential. But he also produced some welcome surprises. Acknowledging the obvious, he declared war on North Viet Nam. Then, with the nation legally at war, he doubled army pay (from $33 to $66 a month for a private), cut in half top civilian government salaries, including his own as Premier (now $6,500 a year). He severed diplomatic relations with France over Charles de Gaulle's continued mugwumping with Hanoi and Peking. He also refused resolutely to yield his command of the air force, well aware it was his best protection against...
...Victor Riesel, translated into Spanish, and U.P.I, and A.P. copy on Latin America, along with several columns of chitchat entitled "Chispa-zos" (Sparks), "Machetazos" (Machete Blows) and "Consultorio Sentimental" (Advice to the Lovelorn). Its uncompromising editorials, written in both English and Spanish, champion causes dear to its readers: a civilian review board for the police department; a crackdown on slumlords, credit gouging and labor racketeering...
...York to Los Angeles are fighting off the imposition of civilian review boards, the Berkeley force gets few complaints and already has a broadly based Citizens Committee for Public Safety, which the force itself was instrumental in founding. Says...