Word: militiaization
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...enforced, the law would be a significant step toward abolishing long- criticized practices. The accompanying press campaign seems to indicate that the regime means business. Recent articles have told of how local militia obtained psychiatric commitment orders for people who had done little more than complain about their neighbors or threatened to expose instances of corruption to higher authorities. There has been no suggestion by the Soviet press, however, that such abuses were sanctioned by high officials for political purposes...
...past year has seen havoc enough. Sectarian violence claimed 93 lives, up from 61 in 1986, bringing the toll to 2,628 since 1969. Among the victims, 27 were members of the R.U.C., the British army and the Ulster Defense Regiment, the locally recruited, predominantly Protestant militia that assists in policing the province. On the other hand, the I.R.A. suffered its worst setbacks in years. It lost 22 men, including eight members of a single unit, and in November both the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority condemned the organization for its part in the bombing deaths of eleven civilians...
...time or another," the CIA listed the late Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte among its "assets." Gemayel's Christian Militia received $10 million in covert aid. Duarte was more than a casual informant but was not fully controlled, the magazine says...
...Hizballah posed a threat to Syria's position in Lebanon. He also came to understand that an Islamic stronghold in Lebanon might eventually undermine Assad's own secular Baath ; Party government in Damascus. In 1984 Assad threw his support to Amal, the mainstream Lebanese Shi'ite organization and militia led by Nabih Berri, but Hizballah's influence continued to spread. One reason Assad sent his army into West Beirut in February was to bring the Iranians to heel...
...Parliament, common law, international agreements, and "conventions," or unwritten rules that have developed over the centuries. For example, in theory the monarch has the right to withhold assent to any bill passed by Parliament. The last time that happened was in 1707, when Queen Anne vetoed the Scottish Militia Bill. Constitutional experts believe such an exercise in magisterial power today would cause a political crisis, possibly leading to the end of the monarchy...