Word: militiaization
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...this sort of "peace" when their supposed partners in peace are given to changing their job descriptions from that of civilian police force members to vigilante commandos on a mere whim? Only the international community could have the chutzpah to expect Israel to tolerate the creation of a militia out of the group of security guards that Israel itself empowered...
...recent elections reinforced people's belief that tangible change in Russia has crumbled along with Yeltsin's presidency. The state of Russia is certainly ailing, and Chechnya may very well be Yeltsin's downfall. In this war, what was once a great army is being crushed by a militia of modestly armed rebels. It remains for Yeltsin to regain his resolve to lead a new Russia away from insecurity and uncertainty and toward stability. NEIL PATEL Woodbury, New York...
...spot when a Japanese airplane plunges into the U.S. Capitol, killing the President, his Cabinet and most members of Congress. Jack's the only guy left, and before he can say middle-class tax cut he has to start battling united Iran-Iraq forces, right-wing militia, a new worldwide plague, terrorists and aggressive TV journalists. "I don't know what to do," he says to himself in a typically Clancyesque moment of self-reflection. "Where's the manual, the training course for this...
Stengel wrote, "many associations--gated suburbs and business-improvement districts, known as BIDS (which have their own police forces)--are driven in some respects by self-concerned fear." Then he goes on to include the Viper militia in the same paragraph! As former chairman of New York City's Bryant Park Restoration Corporation, I spent 10 years retrieving that seven-acre park from drug dealers. Today it gives pleasure to thousands who previously avoided it. Without a bid this would not have been possible. The major BIDS in the New York area have vastly improved the quality of life here...
DIED. PAUL TOUVIER, 81, former French pro-Nazi militia chief and the only Frenchman convicted of World War II crimes against humanity; in a prison near Paris...