Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tension above the 38th parallel. Air-raid shelters are being built in the cities, and antiaircraft batteries are reportedly going up in the countryside. To be certain the people keep the faith, Kim's government stages regular political-indoctrination classes at factories, offices, schools and neighborhood meeting halls; militia groups practice bayoneting replicas of Uncle Sam. Kim is also careful that his people hear nothing of the economic and political progress of the South or of the great upheaval of the cultural revolution in Red China, which might send ripples through his own country. It is a measure...
...toll: two dead, 40 injured. Duvalier's response was automatic. While the sirens of ambulances pierced the air and the government-controlled radio station called for all doctors to report to the city's general hospital, he ordered the mobilization of Haiti's trigger-happy militia, known as the Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen. Duvalier also placed the country's 5,000-man regular army on alert...
...attempted to minimize the risks as much as possible. The first phase of local elections will be held only in secure, government-controlled areas-with a total population of 5,000,000. The definition of security varies, however, and in some hamlets there are more candidates than police or militia to protect them. A second phase, bringing elections to areas as they are pacified, aims at another 600,000 people in 258 villages and 1,100 hamlets by Oct. 1. All candidates for the 15,000 local posts available must meet 13 requirements before a Saigon-appointed board, the most...
...that American forces can do in the South under the current policy is to give non-revolutionary groups the opportunity to set up some sort of non-military government. Once that is done, however, Washington could again find itself in the uncomfortable position of acting as Saigon's private militia--unless the Viet Cong should suddenly decide to obey American wishes...
...meet a South Viet namese militia woman: roll again...