Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party-demoralized under Stalin-as Russia's dominant force. In fact, the Khrushchev Code almost lyrically extols the party and promises that even in that distant day when "the state will wither away," the party will remain. Through such devices as citizens' courts, voluntary "people's militia," and a reorganized political police whose new role is that of "friend and helper," Khrushchev has effectively replaced full-scale terror with the Orwellian technique of "mass discipline...
...wants the U.S. unilaterally to renounce the use of atomic weapons, but says he is not simply for surrender, nor is he a pacifist. He thinks the enemy "should be met with real force," but only "force on a human scale." By this he means conventional weapons, guerrilla warfare, militia organizations, underground activity. When it is pointed out to him that about 40 million people were killed "conventionally" in World War II, Hughes points to this fact: the casualties in World War II occurred "over a six-year period in a very widely extended territory, most of them...
...Castro's actions, Vargas emphasized the formation of a "people's militia" as tremendously significant. "Guns are very important to freedom. Freedom is not possible unless the people have them...
...objective, despite a campaign of imprisonment, expulsion and dinning propaganda. Last week Castro's men attempted to interfere with a religious procession in Havana. Their reward was the first open anti-Castro riot by Cuba's increasingly restive populace-a riot that Castro's trigger-happy militia put down only by firing into the crowd...
...arms on Goulart's behalf. Brizzola, who is Brazil's most rabidly anti-Yankee governor and Goulart's brother-in-law, blocked the harbor in Porto Alegre, barricaded the streets, and began recruiting rawhide-tough cowboys into "Committees of Democratic Resistance." He called up the state militia, mobilized police, had trenches dug, surrounded his palace with barbed wire and put machine guns on the roof. But more important than all these precautions, he won the solid support of General M. Jose Machado Lopes, commander of the well-equipped, 35,000-man Third Army garrisoned in the state...