Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine-man city council, neither was on hand to fill the ghetto's leadership vacuum during the riots: Councilman Irvine Turner was ill; Councilman Calvin West was in Boston for a convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The city has no civilian review board (Mayor Addonizio refers all charges of police brutality to the FBI). Nor did it have any Negro police officers above the rank of lieutenant before last week (when Addonizio hastily ordered a Negro officer promoted to captain, and the city council later showed its good will by authorizing the move...
...lieutenant, David Yorck, was tried separately and found innocent. Wilkerson was found guilty and sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and life imprisonment. Three weeks ago, a reviewing authority reduced the jail sentence to 30 years, and with the help of civilian attorney Matthew H. Brandenburg, Wilkerson will appeal even that sentence. Similarly, in March, four Air Cavalry troopers, convicted of participating in the rape-murder of a 20-year-old Vietnamese farm girl during a reconnaissance patrol, were all dishonorably discharged and given sentences ranging from eight years to life, according to their degree of involvement in the crime. Last...
...generals will come up against some weighty counterarguments, however. Many American civilian officials in Saigon believe that many more G.I.s would increase the dependence of the Vietnamese on the Americans. "I am not persuaded that troop levels are the crux of the problem," says one high U.S. official. "I think the big thing we need is a shining example of what life can be like under a proper, representative government." Also, though Hanoi may be approaching the limit of its ability to aid Communist forces in the South, there is still no assurance that it might...
...make matters worse, Ky's police chief, Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, was accused of intimidating the Premier's opponents. Former Premier Tran Van Huong, the most popular civilian candidate for the presidency, refused to leave his seaside villa at Vung Tau because he feared that Loan's men would assassinate him. Increasingly, Ky's actions alarmed both South Viet Nam's top military officers and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. During a luncheon two weeks ago, Bunker gave the Premier a stern talking-to, warned him that he was undermining the fairness and legality...
...Arabs made much of the destruction of the town of Qalqilya, located in the hills, only 14 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. There was no question that the Israelis had forced Qalqilya's entire civilian population of 12,000 to evacuate the town-which was all but razed in heavy fighting. But now that the shooting was over and 2,000 of Qalqilya's citizens were settled in a tent camp outside the town, the Israelis offered them food, shelter and assistance...