Word: militiaization
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...federal and state levels, the Coalition has adopted Morton Groves' absolute ban on the sale and possession of handguns as a model for its legal campaign. The NRA has always sworn with its right hand on the Second Amendment wherever it takes its stand: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Now, the gun control groups finally have a chance to make use of a 1939 U.S. Supreme Court decision interpreting the Second Amendment as pertaining only to the militia...
...familiar tremors swept through Nicaragua. In the streets of Managua, the capital, dozens of Soviet-made T-55 tanks clattered into defensive positions. Antiaircraft crews manned their batteries, while zealous neighborhood defense committees scurried to dig air-raid trenches. Some 20,000 volunteer coffee pickers were reassigned to local militia units as the Sandinista government announced a "state of alert" affecting the country's 100,000-member military and security forces. For the third time in two years, the Sandinistas were loudly convinced-or so they said-that U.S. troops were about to invade their soil...
...respected. Specifically, he wants a pledge that Syria will not send its own troops to occupy the area the Israelis leave, will bar Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from re-entering southern Lebanon, and will allow the area immediately north of the border to be controlled by the largely Christian militia known as the South Lebanon Army, an Israeli ally...
...southern Lebanon of the United Nations peace-keeping force, whose mandate was renewed by the U.N. Security Council last week. He also said that he wants the region immediately to the north of the Israeli border to be guarded by the South Lebanon Army, the mainly Christian, Israeli-supported militia now headed by General Antoine Lahd. Since the Lebanese government opposes such a role for the Lahd force, Peres suggested that Israel might be content to have the group incorporated into the regular Lebanese Army. The Lebanese government is not very enthusiastic about that idea either, but might accept...
...contend, however, that Assad now fears that the growing violence against the Israelis in southern Lebanon may trigger a retaliatory attack by Israel against Syrian troops. These diplomats do not believe that Damascus has dropped its demand that Jerusalem unilaterally withdraw its soldiers and disband the Israeli-supplied Lebanese militia that helps patrol the region. Syria, however, may offer vague assurances that Israel's northern border will be protected from terrorist attacks. One possibility includes deploying the Lebanese Army in the south and beefing up the 5,700-man U.N. peace-keeping force in the area...