Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Purge & Peace Proposal. Ky's critics in South Viet Nam did not even make a pass at politeness. As the country's ten civilian candidates for president went into their last week of campaigning, they concentrated their attacks on the heavily favored military ticket, headed by Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu...
...disdained even to answer the charges. Instead, he made a "nonpolitical " trip into the Mekong Delta, where he predicted that his ticket would win more votes than all ten civilian candidates combined. Thieu did his part by calling a press conference in Saigon and announcing plans for a purge of all corrupt and incompetent army officers, "from generals down to second lieutenants." Thieu also followed the lead of his civilian opponents and promised that, if elected, he would make a peace bid to Hanoi. If he were to receive some sign of a favorable response, he said, he would propose...
...week's end Thieu finally made his first appearance alongside his ten civilian rivals. Commenting on his earlier peace proposals, Thieu told a cheering crowd of 2,500 in My Tho, south of Saigon, that "I cannot believe the Communists will accept peace easily." As if in proof, a terrorist mine only twelve miles from the rally destroyed a bus and killed 22 passengers...
Seldom by Sea. McNamara turned next to the arguments of the hawks, who advocate either total obliteration of everything that moves in North Viet Nam, military or civilian, or closing Hanoi's ports by bombing and mining. Total bombing, he said, would violate America's limited aims in the war. In addition, "short of virtual annihilation of North Viet Nam and its people," such bombing might very well not work...
...water, sand, swampland, and terrain dotted with obstacles, such as rocks half the height of the inflatable bag. Deflated in flight, the ACLG hugs the bottom of the aircraft without causing aerodynamic drag. "We consider the ACLG a complete technological breakthrough in landing systems," says David Perez, civilian project officer in the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Dayton. And so last year, the Air Force awarded Bell a $99,000 contract for wind-tunnel tests of the ACLG. Now Bell has won a second contract for $98,700 to study possible use of its ACLG...