Word: militiaization
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...Michael Parks of the Baltimore Sun, got similar treatment when they came to Wren's aid. While all this was going on, uniformed militiamen and KGB (secret police) agents stood by or took pictures. When the hour-long fracas was over, some "volunteers" were observed changing into militia uniforms at a nearby police station...
...illegal in the Soviet Union, shotguns and rifles can be bought through hunting clubs-and many Soviets are buying them to protect themselves from robbers. In Moscow, there is a long waiting list to subscribe to a $3-a-month electronic anti-burglar system that links apartments to local militia stations. Soviet papers report citizens' electrifying their doors or installing a harpoon-like device that is supposed to spear an intruder who opens the door...
...Turks in seven years had been touched off by bitter animosity between Greek and Greek. The root of the war was enmity between the tall bearded Makarios and Greek Strongman Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannides. Makarios felt that Ioannides, working through Greek officers who have long commanded the Cypriot militia, was trying to turn his people against...
...communities each formed their own militia, manning checkpoints on roads leading from one sector into the other. Inside Nicosia, tourists wandering from the south side to the north to visit the Turkish quarter felt that they were crossing a frontier into another country...
...textile mills of Lawrence struck in protest against a cut in hourly pay imposed by the wool trust. They had ample reason to rebel. Child labor was usual, disease was rampant, and both wages and working conditions were deteriorating. Soon after the strike began, Massachusetts sent in militia to harass the workers and to break the Industrial Workers of the World strike. Large numbers of these troops were Harvard students whom President Lowell released from finals in order to protect the property of his fellow textile magnates. As an aristocratic Boston observer noted at the time. "They rather enjoyed going...