Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asifa's storm troopers have little in common with the illiterate and ill-equipped irregulars who used to sneak into Israel. Roughly half of them are college graduates or students, and all are rotated regularly in and out their civilian jobs, a practice that makes guerrilla fight ing more attractive and assures Asifa penetration into all levels of civilian life. They undergo formal guerrilla train mg at bases such as the Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like...
...wall unit at Seagoville, Texas, has institutionalized the "halfway houses" pioneered by religious groups to shelter ex-convicts seeking jobs. Intensive prerelease training at federal centers has cut some graduates' repeater rate by 15%. Texas boasts a remarkable six-week course at a relaxed center near Houston, where civilian volunteers (bankers, auto salesmen, personnel experts) teach felons how to get loans, buy cars, apply for jobs-things many never knew. Result: a repeater rate of 13.9%, down from 35% five years...
Liberation Army. The shock waves from Tet continue to affect the Viet namese government in other ways. A new civilian self-defense directorate of the Ministry of the Interior has set up 53 people's-self-defense units in Saigon and 204 smaller ones in 28 of the nation's 44 provincial capitals, involving in all some 19,000 volunteers. The government is also giving all male civil servants and teachers between the ages of 18 and 45 a week or two of mil itary training, including the handling of carbines on rifle ranges...
...Officially, the U.S. has no combat troops in Laos, but it does have 72 military attaches in Vientiane, more than are assigned to any other U.S. embassy in the world. Six months ago, an American in the capital was a rarity; now husky, crewcut young Americans in civilian clothes are common in the streets and often fill the few hotels...
They are there as civilian pilots, air-traffic controllers, radarmen, advisers, engineers and cartographers. The U.S. officially admits to just 1,752 men in Laos, but there are probably a good many more...