Word: garrisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government and threw the President and his top officials in jail on charges of "corruption and sabotage." But the army corps was not united on what next. Some just wanted a left-of-center government free of Egyptian domination. A younger group of officers, especially those in the Aleppo garrison in the north, wanted a rebirth of the union with Egypt as well as a return to Nasser's all-out socialist policies...
...Lloyd Garrison published the widely-influential Liberator in another building on the block. Abolitionist meetings were held there often and much of the philosophy of emancipation emanated from the confines of the Cornhill. Tufts College was founded on the street in 1858 and the area remained a seat of education and social reform for some years...
...question is whether we are to surrender political participation or are we not," Walzer answered. He asserted that each individual must come to a decision "even if he lacks sufficient information." We realize we may make a wrong decision, Walzer noted, "but the only alternative is acceptance of a garrison state...
Recently, the government initiated a program of transporting peasants from areas of heavy Communist infiltration and settling them in heavily guarded garrison communities. These "agrovilles" supposedly serve the dual purpose of encouraging agricultural reforms and destroying contacts with the Viet Cong guerrillas by limiting the population movements of inhabitants. But recent crop shortages have prompted the government to force labor from peasants on government projects without pay. Peasant resentment of forced labor and the agroville's limitation of their freedom has naturally been great and the Viet Cong reaction, vituperative...
...past five months, more than 800 marines with battle packs have landed in Guantánamo, boosting garrison strength to at least 1,100 marines and 2,000 sailors...