Word: militiaization
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Scarcely were relations with the North broken when South Yemenite "People's Militia" and troops loyal to Ismail attacked the presidential palace in Aden and overwhelmed Robaye Ali's army guard. Ismail was left in control after the hapless President was shot by a firing squad...
Reports TIME Correspondent David Wood: "Luhanga, in contrast to many Tanzanian villages, is well on its way to Nyerere's socialist goal. The volunteer village militia combats crime, the village-owned dispensary and clinic combat disease, the village-owned furniture shop and tinsmithy combat unemployment. A women's cooperative sells milk and soft drinks, while profits from the village's enterprises fund a school and day-care center. Although each family has a private Shamba (plot) on which to grow its own food, its members are encouraged to work in the communal enterprises. Instead of pay, they...
...Ogaden desert region. But if the Somalis were running scared, there was little sign of it in their capital, Mogadishu. The mood was all but jubilant, as the government announced a general mobilization and inducted 30,000 volunteers, including women and 15-year-olds, in a national militia...
...Senior East German officers assigned to the Ethiopian Defense Ministry helped to reorganize the country's armed forces, and no doubt have contributed to the planning of the current offensive. Other East Germans have been advising the Ethiopians on the military and ideological training of the police, militia, regular armed forces and youth groups. A hard-lining East Berlin Politburo member, Werner Lamberz, headed a delegation that advised Addis Ababa about reconstructing the country's economy on orthodox Marxist lines...
...given serious consideration. After the miners returned to work, however, some of their leaders were arrested or beaten by police. According to the reports, 4,000 strikers were fired, and others were sent off to work in other mining areas or on collective farms elsewhere in Rumania. Meanwhile, special militia detachments-called "butchers" by the miners-sealed off the Jiul basin area, and security police agents were infiltrated among the miners. The dissidents refer to them as "party dogs...