Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer observed July 20 by laying a wreath at a monument to the victims of the Nazis. In West Berlin, officers of the new Bundeswehr, who had to wear civilian clothes because of the city's quadripartite occupation status, gathered to honor July 20 at the old headquarters of the Wehrmacht on what is now, in memory of the day, called Stauffenbergstrasse. To the Communist East Berlin Neues Deutschland, this was "dirty-dog hypocrisy." Snapped West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt "Over there, they have good reason to fear a 'rebellion of conscience...
...deserted their units to help out the pro-Communist Kurds. Alarmed by the defections, Kassem arrested six officers and 250 men, and sorrowfully took a more painful step. He ordered 800 reserve officers-an entire graduating class commissioned by Kassem himself last April-out of uniform and back to civilian life. The reason: they had been heavily influenced by Communists during their training period last winter, the peak of Red influence in Kassem's shaky regime...
...typical northern base, it takes 20 tons of material a year to supply one airman or soldier and a little less for a civilian-up to 75% of it fuel. As the population of the North grows, the supply problem increases apace. The scientists may soon beat the problem with a nuclear reactor to provide heat and power for a year on one fueling. The first small portable reactor, now being built by Alco Products, Inc. at Dunkirk, N.Y. for the U.S. Army, is scheduled for installation in the Arctic next year. When it works, the Arctic frontier will indeed...
...President of Cuba had already been picked that afternoon at a secret meeting in Havana's Camp Liberty, with no civilian ministers present. Castro and the band of leftists and Communist-liners who hold down all of the top army jobs vetoed two leading choices as too pro-U.S., voted to hand the presidency to Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 40, an obscure country lawyer. In his old job as Minister of Revolutionary Laws, Dorticós had the humble job of drafting decrees. In his new job (he cut the salary to $2,500 a month...
...Minister Alfredo Vitolo and the three service secretaries, who were deemed needed to pressure the forces into discipline. Next day Vitolo summoned all the political parties except the Communists and Peronistas, outlined the threat of coup, got all but one of them to agree to support President Frondizi and civilian government against the military. Said the Socialists, who the night before had been demanding Frondizi's resignation: "We are for legality...