Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours, Phoumi's police and Kouprasith's troops fought it out in the heart of the city. One square block was leveled and the central police station burned to the ground. As is usually the case in Laos, most of the 60 dead were civilian noncombatants. The tide eventually turned against the police, who at one point were attacked by angry wasps disturbed by the gunfire. When the police surrendered, 800 of them were imprisoned in a cigarette factory. Phoumi's luxurious villa was destroyed and Phoumi himself vanished, finally turning up with Police Chief Siho...
...joined up as a Pentagon civilian, headed the Army's blood-plasma and whole-blood programs, and eventually won a lieutenant colonel's leaf. In 1945 he joined Bristol-Myers, a business that had begun to grow arthritic, later became the first non-Bristol to boss the once family-run firm...
Taylor, who had backed Khanh before his ouster by the Buddhists last year, had insisted on a civilian government that lacked the backing of either the army or the Buddhists-the only real forces in South Viet Nam. Last week the two forces combined, at least temporarily, and the civilian regime of Premier Tran Van Huong folded without a sound...
...alert, while special investigators from Washington grilled an estimated 700 members of the 2,500-strong cadet wing. By the end of the week 93 students had resigned from the academy - and before the investigation is completed, anywhere from 100 to 300 more cadets may be bounced back to civilian life...
...cadet's code is far harsher than rules at civilian schools, explains Brigadier General Robert F. McDermott, dean of the faculty, "because if our cadets were to cheat and carry this attitude into the service, the consequences could be a tragedy of national or international scope." But the life of Air Force cadets, most of whom were academically tops in high school, is harder in other respects as well. Many carry 146 credit hours, compared with the 120 hours required by most state universities, are encouraged while undergraduates to take extra courses leading toward a master's degree...