Word: militiaization
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...Over the past few months, North Korea has speeded up the recruitment and training of its 1,200,000-man "People's Militia," massed most of its 340,000-man army in the southern part of the country, and organized a special 20,000-man commando force for sabotage and guerrilla warfare missions over the border. It has launched 321 raids in the past year, a 600% increase over the year before. One such mission was designed to assassinate Park, but it failed (TIME, Feb. 2); not long after, the U.S.S. Pueblo was hijacked. The South does not expect...
...firearms that has equipped one-half of U.S. homes with 50 million guns, largely for "self-defense." All this is rationalized by virtue of the Second Amendment "right of the people to keep and bear arms." In fact, the right clearly applies to collective defense, as in a state militia. But Congress and most state legislatures refuse to regulate the gun craze, partly in fear of the political power of the 700,000-member National Rifle Association, which often seems to view America as still being Indian country. Only New York requires permits to own household pistols; only eight states...
...danger in using the Guard was potential violence. No Rockefeller can forget the 1913-14 strike at the family-controlled Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. at Ludlow. At least 25 people, including women and children, died in the shooting and in fires that broke out after the militia intervened; the number of dead was never precisely established. Lindsay, however, stipulated that he wanted the troops to be unarmed, with local police providing security...
...from Biafran towns threatened with capture. Wholly new and hidden villages have sprung up near occupied towns. At roadblocks around the country, highschool girls in "Long Live Biafra" T-shirts help militiamen check passing cars. Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Dick Tiger, an Ibo, has toured the interior villages, advising militia officers on how to whip their inexperienced recruits into fighting trim...
...back up that arrogance, Kim commands an army of 367,000 men, an air force of 35,000 men and a navy 10,500 seamen strong. In addition, a people's militia of 1,200,000 men and women stands trained and ready to fight. But this muscle has been built at a tremendous cost to the welfare of North Koreans: the military takes some 30% of the nation's budget. With more than 650 planes in its air force, North Korea has an air capability far superior to anything North Viet Nam ever possessed, and North Korean...