Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allies had not only dominated the battlefield but had also seized the political initiative with the successful series of elections last year that culminated in the installation of Nguyen Van Thieu as civilian President under a new constitution. Increasingly, the bulk of the war was being fought on South Viet Nam's peripheries, leaving a virtual vacuum in the countryside that allied pacification efforts were moving to fill. A dramatic demonstration of Communist power and prowess was required. To Giap, the countryside general offensive seemed tailormade for the task...
...Civilian Shields. In the fighting throughout the country, the Communists, as Westmoreland pointed out, showed "a callous disregard for human life," attacking hospitals as well as military compounds, using churches and schools as defense posts and captured civilians as shields. In the highland town of Ban Me Thuot, the Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in a sweep through a leprosarium operated by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, leaving their bodies wired with booby traps...
...Boston woman, recently returned from South Vietnam, yesterday reported on her stay in Saigon. "I visited one civilian hospital," she said, "and I was shattered by what...
...disloyalty to the regime and barred them from teaching in Greece for life. Meanwhile, seven colonels who hold posts as secretaries general in the junta Cabinet followed the example of Premier Papadopoulos by resigning from the army in order to give the government the appearance of a fully civilian regime...
...this case was superfluous, NET staged a 60-minute debate between two differing Asia hands from academe. The discussion was urbane and informed but not particularly illuminating. Former CBS Correspondent David Schoenbrun, now a professor of Vietnamese history at Columbia University, conceded that Greene's "emphasis on civilian targets gave a false impression," but called the film "a useful counterpoint to our own propaganda." Robert Scalapino, who teaches political science at Berkeley, observed that the documentary "did not mention the word 'Communism' once," and summed up that it "presented North Viet Nam as the North Vietnamese Communists...