Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innovation that might go a long way to ease community relations?as well as to disprove many charges of outright brutality?is a civilian board, a kind of ombudsman to review citizen complaints. But police everywhere look upon the notion with undisguised horror as an unwarranted invasion from the outside. "Today," says San Francisco's Chief Tom Cahill, "you cannot even look mean. That may be police brutality...
...Lawyers, doctors and judges all police their own," says Philadelphia's Commissioner Frank Rizzo. "Why does it have to be the policeman who is second-guessed? I don't enjoy being quarterbacked by nonprofessionals." Philadelphia, ironically, had a civilian review board for nearly ten years, examining more than 700 complaints and proving to the satisfaction of most outsiders that the concept does work. The police guild, however, succeeded in killing it in court last year...
...those critics, it seems inconceivable that the clues could not have been recognized. Everyone in Germany knew that the German Jews were being rounded up and herded away in a brutal fashion. German civilian firms supplied the ovens and other equipment for the camps. By 1943, Germans were widely cautioning one another not to complain about the Nazi regime, because otherwise "you might go up in smoke." Adolf Hitler, in fact, told the German people: "The end of the war will see the end of the Jewish race." On the other hand, it must be remembered the six extermination camps...
Resentment of Civilians. Trouble has been brewing for months between Papadopoulos and the council's dozen or so hardliners, whose most influential member is Colonel loannis Ladas, the chief of Greece's internal security system. The hard-liners are ardently antiCommunist, antiRoyalist and in favor of a state of "continued revolution" to purge Greece of its "imperfections." In the first months after the coup, Papadopoulos placed a number of the hard-liners in various important ministries. Though they held a second-rank title of secretary-general, they actually told the ministers what to do. But as Papadopoulos consolidated...
...Passenger Potential. It might also signal a new era in civilian-pas-senger and freight transportation. Lockheed plans to put out a nonmilitary version of the C-5-the L-500-by 1971. In an all-passenger configuration, the L-500 could conceivably carry up to 1,000 people, which would allow airlines to slice New York-London fares...