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Word: martialled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mutineer), "grey" (doubtful) or "white." (Worried about the color code's racial implications, the tribunal first tried a red-green-yellow system but found it too confusing.) All told, the tribunal tagged 100 black sheep. Kenyatta promised his worried countrymen that they would be brought speedily to courts-martial, where the maximum sentence could be death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Africa: On the Mend | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

Swinging Pendulum. For four days smoke billowed over Calcutta's skyline. Finally, Home Minister G. L. Nanda ordered two army battalions into the city, told them to show "no mercy in quelling the disorder." The army clamped martial law on five of the city's 25 police districts, gunned down looters and arsonists in the streets, threw more than 10,000 demonstrators into jail. By the time order was restored, 200 were dead, 600 wounded, 73,000 homeless, and whole portions of the city razed. Hoping to minimize the religious aspect of the rioting, West Bengal officials took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Blood in the Streets | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...Three are too heavily represented on NATO staffs at the expense of other allies. One concrete accomplishment: agreement to set up a $308 million electronic system stretching from Norway to Turkey that will control and guide such fast-moving new aircraft as the F-104. Its less than martial name: NADGE (NATO Air Defense Ground Environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NATO Nagging | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...powers back to our entire people," hinted at elections within a year. In the meantime, as many political shades as possible will be represented in the new government, but, said Defense Minister Don, "we don't want any neutralists." Before the week was out, the regime lifted martial law and censorship. First to recognize South Viet Nam's new government were Malaysia and Thailand, followed by Great Britain and the U.S., which also prepared to restore a $12 million-a-month import aid program suspended under Diem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM: The New Regime | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...felt (as he now explains it) that the moment was not right. He feared that whoever was planning the affair might not be able to control things, that the Communist Viet Cong might move in on it and take over Saigon. So Don supported Diem's imposition of martial law, and the August coup never surfaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Saigon 23126 Doesn't Answer | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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