Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, America Is in Danger, LeMay argues strongly against what he regards as excessive civilian meddling in military affairs. "It never ceases to amaze me," he writes , "that so many intelligent people believe they can become expert in a field where thay have so little training or experience...
...Despite the effortless maneuvering, Apollo's flight was not with out its niggling problems. An oxygen-flow warning light flashed on, but the astronauts quickly determined that a sensor, not the oxygen flow, was at fault Astronaut Cunningham, 36, a civilian physicist on his first flight, reported increasing pressure in a radiator that cools the spacecraft. The trouble was not serious enough to affect the mission. Astronaut Eisele, 38, an Air Force major also making his first space mission, reported radio interference that sounded like a commercial. "I', getting a hot tip on some hostpital-insurance plan from...
McGeorge Bundy, former foreign policy aide to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, called last night for an effort of "communication" and "mutual understanding" between the military establishment and the civilian sector of the government...
...Cabinet consisting entirely of military men. One of its first acts was to cancel the agreement that the Belaúnde government had reached with IPC. Asked when there would be new elections, General Velasco said nothing. Once more, a Latin American army had taken over a civilian regime. The bloodless coup in Peru brought to three-fourths the proportion of people on the continent living under military rule...
...Americans have recruited geese for early-warning duty on Saigon's bridges, which are choice targets for Communist demolition teams. The idea is that the cantankerous birds will start to honk madly as soon as someone approaches within 25 feet of their cages. To distinguish them from civilian geese-and to keep them from winding up in Vietnamese cooking pots-the birds have had their feathers dyed purple. Originally, the birds were issued dog tags, but they refused to tolerate them...