Word: militiaization
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Several previous truce agreements, although usually negotiated in good faith by leaders of the warring factions, collapsed because they were unable to control the loosely organized and undisciplined militia nominally under their command. After the mid-January ceasefire negotiated by Karami (TIME, Jan. 26), for example, rightist forces in the capital, composed mostly of Phalangists, the "Tigers" of the National Liberal Party and neighborhood militiamen, attacked two Moslem slum areas, Karantina and Maslakh. Supported by mortars, recoilless rifles and rockets, the rightists pushed out the defenders last week and then leveled the remaining shanties with bulldozers. Scores of Moslems were...
...entire article returns again and again to the tired idea that gun control violates the Second Amendment. And yet nowhere in Sheriff Buckley's proposal is there any suggestion that we take away the guns of the "militia" mentioned in the Constitution. The raising of minutemen has been replaced in America by a standing army, and except for the use of rifles for hunting there is no condoned use of weaponry for civilians. Admittedly a gun cannot kill people unless someone fires it, but the logical solution that idea poses is the elimination of people. Elimination of the guns they...
...Griggs from Luanda. "For weeks, residents have been dragooned into daily workouts at a dusty soccer field to practice street-fighting techniques; the sessions include being stomped by instructors to toughen stomach muscles. All Angolan males between 18 and 35 have been declared part of a 'Popular Power Militia.' Meanwhile garbage piles up in the streets, attracting scores of scrawny, scavenging dogs and cats abandoned by their departing owners. Most buses have broken down and roadways are littered with wrecked cars and trucks, many of them cannibalized for spare parts. The docks are piled high with Portugal-bound...
...Godley was at one table, Christian Moderate Leader Ramond Edde near by at another. Shortly after 3, as Edde was finishing his coffee, an aide arrived to tell him the hotel had been taken over by a bunch of nervous and heavily armed youths from a right-wing Christian militia unit. Edde and most of the remaining diners left promptly. Two days later, worried by the fluid situation, the hotel staff prudently put some of the hotel's best white sheets out the window of the once proud St. Georges...
...years in public life trying to keep a lid on Spain's seething political cauldron. The nation's conservatives reacted nervously not only to the death of Admiral Carrero Blanco but to events in neighboring Portugal. In the wake of the Lisbon coup, the army, the dreaded militia known as the Guardia Civil and the Cabinet were safely installed in conservative hands...