Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vietnam has probably suffered most through its civilian population. At the moment it is estimated that something close to one quarter of the total population are refugees. This number has probably gone up in recent weeks, after the atacks. The problem of refugees is an enormous one because most of the refugees come from the farm. They are peasants who made their living by tilling the land. What they've done was to flee to the cities, where they live in squatters villages surrounding the cities. Many of them in squalor, even the best of them providing nothing...
...adequate were facilities for civilian wounded...
...said that there was some real reason to expect that a civilian government in South Vietnam, with the burden of a military war and leadership lifted from it, could well come to some sort of agreement with the National Liberation Front. I asked him and pressed him about what would happen after an agreement in the South. Unification, he felt, would ultimately come. After all Vietnam was one country; Vietnamese were fundamentally one people...
Even that formula leaves a large group of potential captives unaccounted for. By previous rules of war, terrorists were regarded as the exception; in Viet Nam, they are the rule, waging a widespread, vicious campaign against a civilian population. Thus they unquestionably forfeit P.W. status if captured. But what, short of an Instant firing line, is to be their fate? The U.S. has decided that to be certified as a terrorist, a suspect must appear before an officer's tribunal (including one military lawyer). Then and only then can he be handed over to the South Vietnamese for civilian...
...separate Julius Caesar and Robert S. McNamara, yet the two resemble each other in important respects. Caesar took over Rome by returning to the city at the head of an army that helped him consolidate power; McNamara became Defense Secretary at the head of a much smaller army of civilian experts from the RAND Corp., who helped him to fend off admirals and generals. Similarly, the original Henry Ford resembles Napoleon Bonaparte because both became so surrounded by yes men that they were unaware of structural problems. Howard Hughes is not unlike Charles I of England in the sense that...