Word: militiaization
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...Mengistu are bound to alienate Somalia, which Russia also supplies and which is being wooed out of the Russian orbit by promises of economic aid from Saudi Arabia. Apparently unbothered by such strategic complications, Mengistu is planning an all-out assault on Eritrea, led by a people's militia of 200,000 peasants equipped with cast-off American arms and trained-if that is the word -by a small cadre of Cuban advisers. They hope to whip enough "volunteers" into fighting trim to begin marching north in June before the onset of the rainy season. Griggs reports that long...
...century. The leader who set the pace and policy for the relentless official land-grabbing that accompanied western expansion was Andrew Jackson. The Tennessean vaulted to the White House on the reputation he had won partly by clearing the Southern states of Indians as a major general of the militia. As President, he continued the work with a determination suggested by his celebrated defiance of a landmark decision of the Supreme Court. In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall sought to protect the Cherokee tribe in Georgia against illegal encroachments and abuses by the whites. More broadly, Marshall also established...
...wife joined with radical Politburo Members Wang Hung-wen, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Yao Wenyuan to organize a second parallel government competing with the existing administration, while they plotted to usurp power. The gang is said to have tried to persuade China's armed militia to take over the army...
...leak out of China. Among them: Vice Education Minister Ch'ih Ch'un, the head of Peking's Tsinghua University, long a bastion of radical power, and Shanghai Party Secretary Ma T'ien-shui. Ma, the wall posters declared, had plotted to arm the urban militia in order to seize power in Shanghai...
...rallying cry is "people's war," with the "new czars" of the Soviet Union as the enemy. Militia training is part of the daily routine, and a high state of readiness is displayed for guests. Wherever we traveled, there just happened to be demonstrations of rifle practice...