Word: civilians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even Postmaster General Anthony Frank admits that, from the consumers' standpoint, the price hikes are "too much, too soon." Although the Postal Service has cut its work force by 20,000, to 758,000, it remains the nation's largest civilian employer, and Frank says he has no choice but to ask for the increases until he can get labor costs under control. The Postal Service is expected to lose $1.6 billion this year...
Nicaragua's civil war is supposed to be over. But contra commander Ciguena, as he calls himself, is in no rush to return to the civilian life he abandoned eight years ago to take up arms against the Sandinistas. As he sat beneath a tree in the dusty backwater village of San Marcos in northern Nicaragua last week, Ciguena, 25, explained that he supports Violeta Chamorro, whose National Opposition Union (U.N.O.) defeated the Sandinistas at the polls two weeks ago. But Chamorro has called on the contras to disband, and Ciguena doubts that she can function as President without...
...ideological porridge of traditional Russian values and Soviet patriotism has gone down well among members of the military establishment, already disgruntled by reductions in the armed forces and the conversion of defense industries to civilian production. The platform issued by a coalition of ten "social-patriotic movements" that backed candidates in last Sunday's elections pointedly denounced efforts to turn the army, police and KGB into a "scapegoat for failures." Uniformed men regularly speak at these rallies, often decrying efforts, as one officer put it, to turn the military "into a prostitute, used for experiments that win applause...
...promise that was Duarte flickered most brightly in 1984, the year he rode to the presidency on a wave of popular enthusiasm. Pledging an end to the civil war and the beginning of an era of stability, Duarte became El Salvador's first freely elected civilian President in half a century. It was a particularly satisfying victory, since Duarte had been robbed of the presidency in 1972, when Salvadoran soldiers halted the vote count and beat the candidate severely. Duarte fled into exile in Venezuela, not venturing home until seven years later, when a coup paved...
After 15 years of terrorist activity, Colombia's notorious M-19 guerrilla group signed a pact with the government last year and stepped back into civilian life. Former leaders Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez and Antonio Navarro Wolf now want to run for office in the country's March 15 municipal elections. Pizarro Leon-Gomez hopes to become mayor of Bogota; Navarro Wolf mayor of Cali. But they face a serious obstacle: impending trials for crimes that include the spectacular 1985 takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice and the 1988 kidnaping of former presidential candidate Alvaro Gomez Hurtado. Gomez...