Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scrupulously Formal. A witty career diplomat who has served as the U.S. ambassador in Yugoslavia and Portugal, Elbrick had been a hit with Brazilians almost from the moment he arrived on July 8. While maintaining scrupulously formal relations with the military regime, he mixed enthusiastically among the civilian population. One evening he and his wife danced past midnight at a party with Brazilians from Rio's ramshackle favelas. After the murder of U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein in a kidnap attempt in "Guatemala a year ago, Elbrick's predecessor, John Tuthill, kept a bodyguard and frequently changed cars...
...forward last week to tell its side of the strange story of Thai Khac Chuyen, a supposed Vietnamese double agent killed late in June. Eight members of the U.S. Special Forces, including the Green Beret commander in Viet Nam, Colonel Robert Rheault,* are under arrest in Long Binh. A civilian lawyer for one of the Green Berets has hinted that Chuyen worked for the CIA and that it ordered his execution by the Green Berets when he was discovered to be a North Vietnamese agent as well...
Last May, a military coup toppled the Sudan's civilian government, and policy toward the south began to change. There is little doubt that the southern problem is the chief concern of Major General Gaafar Mohamed Nimeri, leader of the new government. Within two weeks after taking power, he set down a four-point plan calling for southern regional autonomy, and he has ordered the army to help build up the south's economy. Addressing his troops in the south two weeks ago, he said: "Now you must carry a rifle in one hand and a tool...
...willing to com pete openly with the Communists' political arm, the National Liberation Front, Thieu was expected to broaden the makeup of his Cabinet in an effort to match the Front's strong appeal to peas ants and intellectuals. But in firing Huong, a politically independent civilian, and replacing him with a soldier, Thieu seemed to be moving in the opposite direction. Rather than broadening its base, Thieu's government was limiting its leadership to military men. Later appointments could, of course, give the regime a more heterogeneous character. For the time being, though, there...
...diplomats had strongly urged Thieu to retain a civilian front for his government. Not long ago, such advice might have been swiftly heeded. But with U.S. troops beginning to withdraw, American influence in Saigon is waning and bound to decline further. Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford wrote recently in Foreign Affairs quarterly that Viet Nam's "political realities are, in the final analysis, both beyond our control and beyond our ken." In putting together his new government, Thieu could prove that point emphatically. His decisions might not only be beyond the control or comprehension of the U.S. but might...