Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...republic was baptized in blood. Initially, Ho and French civilian leaders in Hanoi sought to work out a compromise. Their efforts were undermined by colonialists in Paris, and for the next nine years the revolution ground on. In the spring of 1954, after a series of disasters on the battlefield and war exhaustion back home, the French were forced to leave Viet Nam. But Ho failed to secure at the conference table what his troops had won in combat. Under severe pressure from the Soviet Union, he was forced to accept control of only half of Viet...
...that the intellectual elite in Libya is so small, and most of its personalities so well known, that the mere naming of the new Cabinet will indicate whether the regime is pro-Nasserite, Marxist, or middle of the road. One rumor had it that the actual leader is a civilian, which could point toward Abdel Hamid Bakoush, an ex-Prime Minister and a bright, progressive, nationalist lawyer...
Anxious to return the country to civilian rule, the council convened a constituent assembly last January and ordered that elections be held...
Depite deep misgivings, Brazil's military regime was planning to restore a measure of civilian government this week. It would have been the first relaxation of the harsh measures imposed last December, when the constitution was scrapped, Congress closed and a sweeping purge launched against critics of the military. Last week, the prospect of even a limited return to civilian rule abruptly vanished. President Arthur da Costa e Silva, 66, suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak. Physicians said his prognosis was "fairly good," meaning that in time...
...were three of the President's strongest supporters - Army General Aurélio de Lyra Tavares, Air Marshal Márcia de Souza e Mello and Navy Admiral Augusto Hamann Ra-demaker Grunewald. It was they who had backed the old army marshal last December, when he suspended civilian rule. Moving smoothly and unhesitatingly, the triumvirate declared a "state of alert," temporarily closed down banks and blithely brushed aside Vice President Pedro Aleixo, a civilian lawyer who would normally have replaced an incapacitated President...