Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his six-year reign as Defense Secretary, Robert Strange McNamara has done more than enshrine the computer in government. More significantly, he has also cemented civilian control over the Pentagon, an achievement that notably eluded his seven predecessors. Though he is still the unchallenged master of his mighty domain, McNamara of late has found himself increasingly and unmistakably at odds with Earle Gilmore ("Bus") Wheeler, the urbanely outspoken Army general who, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 1964, has brought that post to maturity...
...their report, the three doctors estimated the civilian casualties for 1967 at 150,000, out of which only 50,000 will reach hospitals. "But it is really impossible to tell how many never get any medical aid, so that 150,000 is a hazy figure," Dr. Constable explained...
After a three-week tour of South Vietnamese hospitals, John D. Constable '47, an instructor of surgery at the Medical School, has come back "greatly impressed by the large number of civilian casualties who can't even make it to the hospitals...
...tried to go uninvolved," Dr. Constable, one of a three-man mission sent by the Committee of Responsibility, Inc. to study civilian casualties, said yesterday. "But the large number of amputations and burns, many to children, make it hard to stay uninvolved," he added...
Then the colonels came back in and asked the King to appoint a new government headed by General Spandidakis. Constantine resisted. "You've succeeded in taking over the country," he said. "At least allow the Premier to be a civilian." To Colonel Papadopoulos he said: "You haven't got the faintest idea of how to run a country. All you can do is direct artillery fire." Eventually, the colonels agreed to accept Constantine Kollias, chief prosecutor in the Greek Supreme Court, as Premier. He was summoned to the Defense Ministry. Said Constantine to Kollias...