Word: militiaization
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...negotiations on the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon hinged to a large degree on a former Lebanese army major who was dishonorably discharged four years ago for desertion. The commander of a largely Christian militia in southern Lebanon, variously estimated at 1,000 to 2,000 men. Major Saad Haddad, 45, has controlled a ten-mile-wide strip along the Israeli border since 1978. He has provided a foothold in Lebanon for Israel, which has not only trained and equipped his forces but also paid him $12,000 a year to keep the territory free of Palestinian guerrillas seeking...
...insist that the Israelis be allowed to take part only in "joint supervisory teams," with no military or police powers whatsoever. The Israelis, moreover, want the Lebanese force along the border to be under the control of Major Saad Haddad, a renegade Lebanese army officer whose 2,000-man militia has been supported by Jerusalem for the past seven years. The Lebanese may agree to take Haddad back into their ranks, but they refuse to let him run his own operation...
...reason: the police could not produce an arrest warrant. Said Walesa: "You should abide by the laws." Momentarily nonplussed, the police retreated, but they returned almost immediately to tell Walesa that they would take him away by force if necessary. Finally, Walesa was whisked to a militia headquarters for five hours of "conversations." Then, just as abruptly, he was released...
...scarcely deserve to be called a war. The forces involved are minor. On one side are perhaps 2,000 exiles, known as contras, who have slipped back into the country from bases in Honduras, where they were trained as guerrillas; on the other are a scattering of militia and border guards of Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government. Casualties in the past month total a few hundred, of whom many were peasants killed almost at random. But the political struggle touched off in Washington by this low-level fighting is escalating rapidly, especially in Congress. Said one Administration official last...
...grew out of the need to defend the young Bolshevik government against civil war and foreign intervention. When it became obvious that the Russian Revolution would not be followed by similar uprisings in the West, leaders of the Soviet Union quickly abandoned the Leninist concept of a people's militia in a well-equipped standing army that would ardently defend "socialism in one country." Upon accession to power, Stalin committed the Soviet Union to "catching and overtaking the capitalist countries." Holloway finds the early roots of the arms race. As he goes on to show, the surprise German attack...