Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven helicopters and an elaborate battle plan involving National Guard and Army Reserve units to cope with violence. Cleveland police are ready to move decisively if the recent conviction and death sentence of Fred ("Ahmed") Evans-a black nationalist who led the fatal ambush of three policemen and a civilian last summer-should touch off rioting there...
...slogan be turned into a popular song. But Viet Nam is a different kind of war, and clerical critics-including a few ex-chaplains -are beginning to question whether a minister in uniform can really be honest to God while remaining faithful to the Pentagon. This month several civilian clergymen from San Francisco -after an inspection tour of the stockade at the Presidio-bluntly suggested that military chaplains may have outlived their usefulness...
...minister's participation in a war that a growing number of Americans regard as wasteful or immoral. In trying to resolve the contradiction, Neuhaus says, many chaplains simply arrange their values along military lines, like good soldiers. He would prefer to see military chaplains replaced by civilian clergy accredited to the armed forces like Red Cross personnel...
Military chaplains themselves answer that in practice they are freer than many civilian ministers, who must often answer to hostile congregations if they take a radical stand on a matter of theology or politics. Navy Chaplain John A. Rohr argues that in a world where peace is still unattainable the fact of war's existence "must be borne even as we strive to abolish it." Christianity, he says, needs both kinds of ministers-the civilian picketing for peace and the chaplain serving "those brave young men who bear so disproportionate a burden of the sins of the world...
...only is the Pentagon coming in for rising criticism, but its civilian suppliers as well. Congress and the public are deeply concerned about the spiraling costs of new weapons systems and their frequent failure to perform up to expectations. High prices and technical flaws plague many major weapons systems, including the Army MBT-70 tank (prime contractor: General Motors), the Navy LHA assault-ship program (Litton) and the Air Force Short-Range Attack Missile (Boeing). Last week all the censure converged on two huge defense projects, the Air Force C-5A transport and the Army AH-56A Cheyenne helicopter. Both...