Word: militiaization
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...toll: two dead, 40 injured. Duvalier's response was automatic. While the sirens of ambulances pierced the air and the government-controlled radio station called for all doctors to report to the city's general hospital, he ordered the mobilization of Haiti's trigger-happy militia, known as the Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen. Duvalier also placed the country's 5,000-man regular army on alert...
...attempted to minimize the risks as much as possible. The first phase of local elections will be held only in secure, government-controlled areas-with a total population of 5,000,000. The definition of security varies, however, and in some hamlets there are more candidates than police or militia to protect them. A second phase, bringing elections to areas as they are pacified, aims at another 600,000 people in 258 villages and 1,100 hamlets by Oct. 1. All candidates for the 15,000 local posts available must meet 13 requirements before a Saigon-appointed board, the most...
...that American forces can do in the South under the current policy is to give non-revolutionary groups the opportunity to set up some sort of non-military government. Once that is done, however, Washington could again find itself in the uncomfortable position of acting as Saigon's private militia--unless the Viet Cong should suddenly decide to obey American wishes...
...meet a South Viet namese militia woman: roll again...
...richest and most important industrial city, was so firmly in anti-Mao forces' hands that Peking published and broadcast an open letter to Shanghai's citizens urging them to rise up against the "bourgeois reactionaries" bucking Mao. The anti-Maoists were accused of organizing workers into Red Militia Brigades as an answer to the Red Guards, of encouraging labor to stop production and go to Peking to protest against the Cultural Revolution. Putting "not politics but bank notes in command," railed Peking, the anti-Maoists used their control of local party funds to raise wages and welfare allowances...