Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...P.K.I, had risen from virtual oblivion after a 1948 coup attempt to a membership of 3,000,000-not including the 14 million members of its labor and youth fronts. At the suggestion of Chou Enlai, Sukarno had given the green light for a massive People's Militia, which the Communists intended to use to contain the army-their only possible rival in any struggle for power. In addition, they were infiltrating the army. On the teeming island of Java, home of 65% of the population, the military was estimated to be 40% proCommunist...
...small village of Nowy Dvor, some 20 miles from Warsaw, shirt-sleeved farmers chatted in the main square before the church, glancing toward the grey militia cars parked near by. In the dusty churchyard, women knelt to pray while children in white Communion dresses skipped about. Inside the small, battered church, Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski told an overflowing congregation that the replica of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, scheduled to arrive that day in Nowy Dvor as part of a summer-long processional to celebrate the millennium of Poland's conversion to Christianity would not come. "The authorities intercepted...
...stand in line every day for coffee. Cuba is a jail." Added her husband, a former railroad shop foreman: "They don't give you work if you are not with the government, and if you are with the government, you have to cut sugar cane, join the militia and stand guard." Cubans who decide to leave lose everything. Those in nonessential jobs are summarily fired, and must sign over their cars, homes and savings. The only things they can take with them are a few personal belongings-and hope...
Greene said China could mobilize 100 million members of its militia within three hours, freeing its regular army to move outside the Chinese border...
...government over to three hand-picked cronies in his absence. Ever suspicious of his army, he fired its commanders when he heard rumors that they had been "talking against" him, took command of the army himself. Then, three months ago, he announced plans to form a "people's militia," the obvious purpose of which was to neutralize the army if it tried to move against...