Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first early-warning system in Greenland, the Titan II missile sites and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's vast new Houston headquarters. Dunn will now be McNamara's straw boss in charge of some $1 billion worth of work and 40,000 military and civilian engineers. It will be his toughest assignment...
...American youngsters regarded the draft as either a remote threat or, at worst, a necessary chore that might produce a rewarding tour of duty overseas (where some 46% of all U.S. soldiers are now stationed) or enable them to acquire a skill that would later be useful in civilian life...
Vietnamese civilian. When the ceasefire ended, the Communists had ushered in Tet, the lunar New Year, with at least 80 attacks, atrocities or acts of violence...
...major civilian interests must still be placated: the Muslim part of the North must still be ruled by a Muslim Northerner--and in that part of Nigeria, there are always spare emirs and wazirs eager to take the place of an assassinated Premier; the West must have a popular Yoruba and the East a popular Ibo Premier; in the Midwest a balance of power among several tribes must the kept. Each region, each major tribe must be given a sufficient stake in the Federation to make the idea of secession unthinkable...
...best means for carrying out this political task. So perhaps in time President Azikiwe will be recalled from London, Chief Obafemi Awolowo (the West's most popular Yoruba leader), will be released from Federal prison, and a new Federal Constitution will be drawn up to meet civilian demands...