Word: militiaization
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...reported for work one 3 a.m. last week, but no cars left the barns. Instead, before the day was over, 6,000 men and women employees were on a sitdown strike, demanding that their 800-zlotys monthly pay (enough to buy one pair of shoes) be increased 50%. The militia fired tear gas and wielded clubs. A worried Gomulka dispatched a trade union chief, a vice-minister and a security general from Warsaw, called out the troops to keep order, pressed 750 trucks into action to provide transportation in Poland's second largest city (pop. 675,000), and banned...
Taking his cue from U.S. experiments, Strauss wants the new German army to be small, highly trained "pentomic" groups, geared to operate independently in the event of atomic war. Concurrently, Defense Minister Strauss plans to form a highly organized and well-armed "militia" army which will eventually be bigger than West Germany's NATO force but committed to "home defense" only...
...crucial hours of the October revolt, Warsaw Committee First Secretary Stefan Staszewski backed Gomulka to the hilt, mobilized thousands of Warsaw students and workers into a scratch militia to fight the Russians if necessary. A fortnight ago Staszewski was replaced by a party functionary. Into top ministerial jobs went two other onetime Stalinists who had opposed Gomulka's early program. But the appointment which caused most suspicion was that of blond, poker-faced Zenon Nowak...
Small gradations within the overwhelming vote cast for leading Communist candidates showed how the Poles were thinking. In Warsaw's First District, for example, the highest vote (98.63%) was received by Professor Jerzy Bukowski, who had helped students organize a militia during the October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They...
...time." As a result, Painter Charles Willson Peale was summoned from Annapolis in May 1772 to paint the hero of the French and Indian War, his wife and stepchildren. Peale's portrait of the 40-year-old Virginia planter in his uniform as a colonel in the Virginia militia, today hanging at Washington and Lee University, has become part of the national heritage...