Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow provided baggy civilian suits and political sanctuary for the four, prompting the U.S. to summon Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin to the State Department, where Deputy Under Secretary of State Foy D. Kohler orally protested the "highly improper" Soviet behavior of "assisting, harboring and exploiting" the men. "Such conduct cannot fail to complicate further the relations between our two countries," said Kohler. At the request of the four men, according to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, access to them was denied U.S. embassy representatives and Western newsmen...
Turns on the Bollard. The officers themselves-mostly reservists eager to return to civilian life-were "living in extreme messiness," and they barely deigned to say "Aye, aye, sir." Though the Vance had won an E for engineering excellence and performed commendably on lonely, months-long patrols in the northern Pacific, she seemed a slack ship to Arnheiter's eye, and only "a taut ship is a happy ship." Arnheiter was up-taut himself: a Naval Academy "ring-knocker" he was passed over once for lieutenant and at 40 was one of the oldest Annapolis men of his rank...
...event, most non-civilian officials in the Pentagon--and Vietnam--are likely to breathe a good deal easier than they have for the past seven years. McNamara, almost alone among the eight Defense Secretaries since the National Defense Act of 1947, considered himself and acted as the President's top adviser on all matters pertaining to American military operations...
More important, and far more disturbing to the military chieftains, McNamara was able to strip the services of much of their political and economic power. He fully centralized Pentagon budgeting procedures and placed the three services' procurement operations under civilian direction--saving billions and sharply cutting the military's domestic political influence...
Fortunately for these ex-priests, a number of volunteer agencies have sprung up to help them make the adjustment to civilian life. Best known of these is Bearings for Re-Establishment, with headquarters in New York City and branches in five other cities. Founded last year by William Restivo, 36, a former priest-missionary in Kenya, Bearings is financed by contributions from sympathetic Catholic laymen, each week helps an average of half a dozen former priests find lodgings and jobs...