Word: garrisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because "the garrison state has exalted the goal of military security above all other goods," Thomas claimed, struggles of such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union are "essentially a rear-guard action." He admitted, however, that the cold war made easier the struggle for equality by minority groups...
Even the Supreme Court is not a defense against the loss of liberty under the "garrison state," Thomas maintained, since the Court has expressed its reluctance to interfere with the other branches of the government "especially in cases involving national security...
...West, the situation had its divisive ironies. At Washington's orders, a caravan of giant U.S. Air Force Globe-masters was busy hauling Swedish, Indian and Ethiopian soldiers to the U.N. garrison at Elisabethville, there to fight Belgians, Frenchmen and Britons serving with the Katanga forces. The NATO allies, sorely split over the U.N. intervention, discussed a solution for hours at their Paris conference. They were really discussing the fate of one man-Katanga's Moise Tshombe, the crafty, flamboyant black leader who had taken his copperrich province out of the Congo and called it a nation...
...Lawyer Richard H. Paul, 41, as chief counsel. Possessed of the cautious judicial temperament in almost exaggerated degree, Paul is a graduate of Cornell (class of '41) and Yale Law School, as a partner in the up-and-coming New York legal firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has specialized in corporate and tax law. Reporting directly to the investigation's recently appointed generalissimo, Chicago Lawyer Milton Cohen, Chief Counsel Paul will oversee a staff of 25 lawyers searching for hanky-panky in the exchanges, will also direct the public hearings...
Hottest rumor of the week followed the arrival one sultry forenoon of two planeloads of U.N. Italian crewmen who had ferried in a shipment of U.N. scout cars for Kindu's Malayan garrison. "Belgian paratroops!" cried Gizenga's men as they hopped into trucks for the dash to the airport. Bursting into the nearby Malayan officers' mess, where the 13 Italian flyers were having lunch, the Congolese soldiers grabbed the "Belgian" crewmen and hustled them off to a jail near town. Two Italians shouted their protests in French as they waved U.N. identity cards. "Ah, Flemish!" cried...