Word: militiaization
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...conflict that has destroyed much of the Christian sector of East Beirut is now moving into the western sector of the city and the northern mountains, a stronghold of right-wing militia troops...
...government of Czechoslovak President Gustav Husak, who succeeded Dubček as party boss eight months after the invasion, was indeed a little nervous as the Aug. 20 anniversary approached. All police leaves were canceled. Trusted Communist cadres in the Workers' Militia were assigned weekend guard duty in factories across the country. As is the custom, the estimated 70,000 to 80,000 Soviet troops who remain bivouacked in Czechoslovakia continued to make themselves scarce, as they have since...
...diminutive white-haired woman stood outside the Moscow courtroom in a light summer rain and read a message to Carter before Western correspondents: ''During the painful days of the trial I have not left the iron fence around the courthouse. I faced a thick wall of KGB and militia officials in the hope of catching sight of my child from afar. All these days I could hear your sincere authoritative voice in support of an innocent man. Accept, Mr. President, our deep and sincere gratitude...
...unless they left the country in 30 days. The Jesuits stayed, and so far none have been murdered, but it is clear that they, indeed all active Catholics, face harassment, torture and death at the hands of the vigilantes, the national police and the dreaded 50,000-member "Orden" militia. This past Easter at least 29 people were killed in a vicious raid on an area where the Christian Peasants' Federation was active...
...ascendancy of the fanatic Marxist Ismail, who has boasted of defeating all "enemies of the revolution" with his People's Militia, strengthens Moscow's hand in the Arab world's only avowedly Marxist state. Aden has replaced the Somali port of Berbera as the chief Russian naval base in the area. Soviet air force planes use the former British airstrips at Ras Karma and Muri. Large underground arms depots have been constructed to store weapons that can be rushed to pro-Communist movements in black Africa...