Word: militiaization
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...successors," reported TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who accompanied Schlesinger on his tour, "the trip was an opportunity to demonstrate their ultimate weapon: the Chinese people. They did it at every turn, lining the roadsides with militia guards in Inner Mongolia and showing Schlesinger vast tunnel networks built on Chairman Mao's command to 'Dig tunnels deeply, store grain and never seek hegemony. At least for the time being, the Chairman's spirit is still in command...
...minister, whom they plan to hang as an example to town rebels, Dudgeon declines to correct their mistake. Meanwhile, Anderson, realizing his own ministerial garb cloaks a worldy temperament that glories in righteous warfare, has scurried off to rally the colonists. As captain of the local militia, he triumphantly rescues Dudgeon from the gallows and offers the "devil's disciple" his old role as spiritual guide for the town's now-revolutionary populace. After nearly exchanging places in death, the two protagonists now switch roles in life...
...British Governors, now all in flight, in prison, or in refuge behind British guns. Now in power, under congressional sanction, are the Committees of Safety, some of them vaguely derived from the once secret radical groups, but at present responsible for such local problems as the buying of militia provisions and the maintenance of public order. In between, and harassed from all sides, stand the colonial legislatures that are now charged with organizing the postcolonial era. The situation...
...shortage of infantry weapons is not so critical, because every able-bodied man 16 years of age and over is required to have a gun for his militia duty; but some of these arms get lost or damaged. Washington announced not long ago: "For every [musket] with a bayonet that have not been abused, I will give 12 dollars." Not too many have answered that request, though, for a new gun now costs 15 to 18 Spanish dollars or other coin...
...There is a time to pray and a time to fight," proclaimed Pastor Peter Muhlenberg, 29. Then, before his astonished flock in Woodstock, Virginia, he tore off his vestments to reveal the uniform of a militia officer. That was last January. Now Muhlenberg is colonel of the regiment he raised himself, the 8th Virginia. But the country's main Lutheran leader, his father Henry, follows Martin Luther in mistrusting revolutions. Other churches are also taking sides...