Word: militiaization
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...barred from bearing arms. To Gemayel, the 320,000 Palestinians in Lebanon, including 5,000 under arms, represent a "state within a state" that exposed Lebanon to recurring Israeli attack. In mid-April a five-day battle in Beirut between Palestinians and the Phalangists' own 6,000-man militia left at least 150 dead and 300 injured...
...some still unexplained reason, a busload of Palestinian guerrillas drove into the east Beirut sector of Ain Rumanneh. That neighborhood happens to be a stronghold of a fiercely nationalist, right-wing and predominantly Maronite Christian party, the 75,000-member Phalange, whose private 6,000-member militia is the largest in the country. The Phalangists in the area apparently decided that the bus was a provocation, and their militia opened fire, killing 26 aboard the bus and wounding 19. That touched off a battle that raged for five days, embroiling much of Beirut. Before it was over, an estimated...
...Crimson netmen take on the militia today as they meet Army, which boasts a 1-2 log, at West Point. The contest against Army will precede the potential Ivy showdown between Princeton and Harvard later in the season...
...housewives do their week's shopping and couples go to the movies. The gleam from the lanterns, terrestial if one and aquatic if two, will pale in the neon of shop displays and the glare of crime lights. The trotting of the horse on its way to alert the militia-men loses its way in the labyrinthine confusion of modern urban streets. At a time when the Tea Party becomes a subject for T-shirts and when drinking mugs are emblazoned with the faces of our favorite patriots the appeal to the great ideals that created our country...
...Street crap. I ask you all to act with the zeal of civic sacrifice that was so noble among the men and women of this nation in the throes of its birth. Starting tomorrow I am drafting all Americans between the ages of 21 and 30 into a civil militia. For one year each of you will serve the nation without pay, in some public service capacity. You will have a broad selection of opportunities--legal and, day care, food programs, construction, medical aid. The only requirement is that you fight for the nation with the same tenacity that your...