Word: militiaization
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Suburban Targets. Before the landing party's members were killed, captured or driven off by Touré's Chinese-trained "people's militia," they headed toward an expensive suburb of Conakry and raided the headquarters of PAIGC (African Party for the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde). Guerrilla fighters from PAIGC now control anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of Portuguese Guinea, pinning down some 30,000 troops. The party's founder and leader, Amilcar Cabral, was in Europe during last week's raid and missed an attack on his house...
...Constitution empowers the Congress "to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections and repel invasions...
...strategic fortress, now held by rebels of their own stripe, were truly to fall into enemy hands, who knew what might occur? The Whites could play upon popular discontent, of which there was now an excess; or they might simply muster a large militia and drive the Soviets under for the last time. In any event, the prospect was a dangerous...
Those are the front-line supplicants, but many others constantly seek to infiltrate the presidential stronghold. They include state governors and city mayors, and the senior national and state political leaders of the President's party. After them comes a helter-skelter militia of citizens, often sniping at one another, enemies of the President as well as friends: banker, lawyer, merchant, chief, cleric, doctor, scholar, journalist, student, housewife. Some advance to plead a cause, others to extol, still others to criticize and fix blame...
...Philadelphia in 1787, they deliberately denied U.S. Presidents the kind of unfettered war power that European kings enjoyed. Instead, they gave Congress authority to "declare" war, "raise and support armies," make military appropriations for a period no longer than two years, and "provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions." The only exceptions to legislative war authority were intended to be narrow: the framers made the President "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into...