Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action was largely symbolic, since the travelers could fly to West Berlin on Allied civilian airliners, which are not subject to East German control. But the ban was yet another cut at one of West Berlin's most vital assets, its free access-one that the Communists have been whittling away since last March. War of Nerves. Even more important, the East German move touched on the very status of West Berlin. West Germany has always maintained that West Berlin is a part of the Federal Republic, though, of course, under special Allied control. As symbolic support for that...
Thirty Harvard students formed an adjunct to the GI-Civilian Alliance for Peace (GI-CAP) this week to promote anti-war demonstrations by servicemen in seven U.S. cities...
...town, then a county with a population of 140,000. Later he was assigned to the faculty of an Army intelligence school in Oberammergau, teaching modern German history to officers ranking as high as lieutenant colonel. The disparity in military status became embarrassing. In 1946, he was made a civilian employee of the Army,'with a salary of $10,000 and a captain's rank in the Army Reserve. But by the next year he was restless. "I know nothing," he told a friend. He won a Government scholarship that began his long association with Harvard...
...speculation that the gunman fired on the auto carrying Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy because his heavy jowls and bushy eyebrows resemble those of Brezhnev. The most prevalent rumor in Moscow has it that the shooting was the result of a plot by the Soviet military chiefs to kill the civilian leaders and seize control. Another version is that the shooting was part of a KGB (secret police) plot to buttress the argument of Kremlin hawks that the country needs to be placed under sterner rule...
...ultimately blame the war. Next time, they intend to be better prepared. Hué's citizens are hoarding extra stocks of rice and water, and have built professional-looking bunkers in their backyards, using layers and layers of sandbags. Some 12,000 allied troops and 13,000 civilian self-defense men guard the city-compared with a bare 2,500 troops last Tet. The bridges are flanked by bunkers, and the Citadel's blasted walls bristle with squat pillboxes, ready should the war ever again come...