Word: militiaization
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...development, TIME, March 11, and the cover story of Senator John McClellan, TIME, May 27). In a pet cliche of Governor Faubus, a stitch in time saved nine. Olsen was one of the first out-of-state newsmen to arrive in Little Rock, the only one present when the militia clanked into the city...
Elizabeth, clutching tight at her notebook, began a long, slow walk down the two blocks fronting the school. She turned once to try the line again-and again the rifles came up. A militia major shielded her from the crowd, escorted her to a bus-stop bench, left her. "Go home, you burr head," rasped an adult voice. Elizabeth sat dazed as the crowd moved in. Then Mrs. Grace Lorch, wife of a Little Rock schoolteacher, sat down on the bench and slipped her arm around the child's shoulders. "This is just a little girl," she cried...
...wild-eyed message to the President of the U.S.: he thought his telephone lines were being tapped: he was sure that Federal authorities were plotting to arrest him; the situation in Little Rock "grows more explosive by the hour." To ward off all invaders, Orval Faubus de ployed his militia around his white-pillared executive mansion, disappeared from public view like a feudal baron under siege...
...Texas phenomenon perhaps related to a fundamentalist reading of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed...
When the vice-minister appealed to the sitdowners to end their strike, a woman in the audience held up a tear-gas canister and asked: "Is this what you use against women?" The militia used tear gas again the second night, and after routing strikers from the car barns got the trolleys moving, with guards on each. The strike was over, broken not only by a show of force, but by the government's promise to look into the strikers' complaints...