Word: militiaization
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...land, our Nasser-You are our Beloved, 0 Gamal," shrilled the marchers of Damascus as they streamed in thousands-girl scouts, militia, mullahs, mothers, cadets and kerchiefed workers-through Liberation Square and the Street Called Straight. Students shuffling under the eucalyptus leafed arches chanted in unison: "Neither internationalism nor Communism but Arab nationalism." At the municipal stadium a festive crowd roared as desert riders staged a camel race. Thus, as their hero arrived from Cairo this week with his guest and fellow neutralist, Tito of Yugoslavia, the people of Nasser's northern province (pop. 4,000,000) began celebrating...
...paternal tones Kassem urged members of the Iraqi Students Union to stop wasting time on political activities (riots, etc.) and get back to their textbooks. Less paternally, he issued tough new orders to the Popular Resistance Force, the Red-infiltrated militia whose members have been careering through Baghdad making political "arrests." Henceforth, said Kassem, the P.R.F. would function only as a reserve force "under direct military orders," and any of its members who tried to interfere with "the freedom of citizens" would be subject to "the severest punishment." Explaining why his new orders were necessary, Kassem was warily unspecific...
Died. Giuseppe Bottai, 63, high-level factotum for Il Duce's regime, early Fascist organizer; after long illness; in Rome. Bottai commanded 8,000 blackshirted militia in the 1922 march on Rome that seized power from the king. For his friend Benito, he was Minister of National Education. Governor of Rome, Civil Governor of Addis Ababa, Minister of Corporations. When things looked black in 1943, Bottai discreetly disappeared, later turned up in the French Foreign Legion...
...formerly lived in "an unorganized, undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head of a row of rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners' wives and teen-age children have been put to work running 40 new "industrial enterprises," including a cement factory. Logical next step at Yangchuan (and already in operation in some Red Chinese factories...
...fields. In Honan 7,000,000 more women are now happily working away on dams or collecting manure. Peking recently predicted that during 1958 steel production and agriculture would double. But in between the glowing reports-of efficient mass dormitories, reveille at 5 a.m., and the bracing daily militia drills ("shooting three times before every meal and three times after")-even the Communists have been dropping hints of discontent in paradise...