Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming in for a landing at a little Mekong Delta town, the lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese...
...kind of justice handed down in Proctor's case lends support to people in many cities who are suggesting that Police Department trial boards like the one that heard the Proctor case be replaced by civilian review boards. That the Boston police permit what is apparently a proven case of brutality to go so lightly punished suggests that the responsibility for investigating such complaints ought to be put in someone else's hands...
...scientists contended that since the use of chemical and biological weapons is directed against a country's civilian population "it does not serve our national interest, and is immoral." They defined chemical weapons as those toxic to men, animals, and plants...
...when 500,000 cheering Cubans crowded into the Plaza to watch Latin America's biggest military machine pass in review before Castro, President Osvaldo Dorticós, and Cuba's other commissars. While MIGs screamed overhead, Fidel's Communist-trained troops, cadets and members of the civilian Popular Defense Force clicked smartly past, followed by armored troop carriers, tanks, rocket launchers and a flock of missiles. "There is something else that is not seen," Castro told the crowd jubilantly, "and that is many weapons more. The quantity has grown...
Political Pressures. Clearly, New York needs far more savvy in handling public employees; but so does the entire U.S. The country's 10.2 million civilian Government workers (24% of them federal) now comprise the largest single segment of the U.S. labor force. With state and local governments slated to hire 50% more workers, the public sector's share of the labor force will hit an estimated 20% by 1970. Meanwhile, having lost members in private industry, U.S. unions now regard public employees as a prime target-and already represent about 34% of them...