Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carps or criticism against him, but because of age and a desire to rest. As a military man, Ike understands Wilson's problem of holding a lid on the highly competitive services, and can see that he is doing it with better than average success. Wilson has buttressed civilian supervision of the armed forces, headed off Pentagon feuds, supervised a military arsenal that has changed more drastically in four years than at any other time in U.S. history. He has kept a rein on unnecessary crash programs of weapon development, insisted that if proven new weapons were phased into...
Letting Down. General Rojas first took power in 1953, when he ousted an unpopular Conservative President. That act put a stop to backlands guerrilla fighting by the opposition Liberals and earned Colombia's gratitude. But his soldiers were not content to be the force supporting a mainly civilian regime. Instead, generals and colonels became Cabinet ministers and governors; sergeants became village mayors. The politicos understandably balked; the rural fighting resumed (TIME, Dec. 31). Rojas cracked down, banning meetings and closing newspapers...
...Though many U.S. prisons have educational programs, probably none has met with more enthusiasm than the school at Kansas State Penitentiary. At first, the men looked at Gragert with deep suspicion. But with only one civilian assistant to help him, Gragert managed to find 25 inmates willing and able to serve on his faculty. Though their crimes ranged from theft to murder and only one had ever taught before, the professors quickly took hold. Gradually, Gragert's campus spread to 18 rooms, his enrollment to 284. By last week one out of every five prisoners was getting an education...
Representatives of the Populists, Syria's largest party, were shuffled out. The leftists could now count on a majority because so many moderate members of Parliament had fled the country, and the moderates who stayed were not strong. "I'm tired of being a civilian front for an army clique," said one minister visiting in Lebanon. A nationalist moderate himself, Premier Sabri el Assali managed to keep the Interior Ministry with its police authority himself, and to keep" Serraj's closest friends out of the Cabinet...
...than the last, spending-spree budget of President (1950-56) Manuel Odría, whom Candidate Prado had lambasted as a spendthrift. Old Soldier Odría was often accused of lavishing the taxpayers' soles on the armed forces just to keep the brass contented, but Old (67) Civilian Prado outdid him. Prado upped the army's share 10%, the air force's 75%, the navy's 98%. The civilian ministries, too, got raises...