Word: militiaization
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...Tennessee River 90 miles north of Birmingham, with high hills to the east and west (Wernher von Braun lives on one of them, which has been dubbed Sauerkraut Hill, and is building a home on the highest, Monte Sano), was founded in 1805 by John Hunt, a Revolutionary War militia captain. It was Alabama's first incorporated town (1811), with the first incorporated bank (1816), site of the state's first constitutional convention (1819); from Confederate War Secretary Leroy Pope Walker in Huntsville came the 1861 order to fire on Fort Sumter. For years, Madison County was Alabama...
...cold rain fell from early morning. Premier Janos Kadar had warned that any attempt to commemorate Hungary's brief interlude of freedom would be "smashed with an iron fist." Armed police, soldiers and goon-squad "workers' militia" patrolled street, school and factory...
...Gomulka has shown himself increasingly jumpy over press criticism, and the students found the square thick with steel-helmeted police. The police and militia did not wait for speeches or explanations. They ordered the students to disperse, then waded in with rubber truncheons swinging, viciously clubbed many students who refused to leave...
...more drastic than his last, Faubus made inflammatory statement after inflammatory statement. He called off the National Guard in response to an injunction issued against him by U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies, spurning Judge Davies' alternative offer: to change the National Guard's orders so that the militia would uphold-rather than defy-law and order...
Last week, betraying a certain nervousness that the anniversary might touch off some kind of sorrowful and sullen demonstration, Minister of State Gyorgy Marosan told 5,000 members of the armed Red workers' militia gathered in a soccer stadium: "Everyone wonders what will happen on Oct. 23. I can tell you-nothing. It will be a normal working day. Children will go to school. Workers will be in factories. We will see who is absent from his place. And if it occurs to anyone to gather on the street, then the workers' power will be there...