Word: militiaization
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Field of Decision. Though Ho Chi Minh's forces (70,000 regulars with equipment as good as the French, plus 70,000 well-trained guerrillas and an unknown number of poorly equipped village militia) have been pushed back from such centers as Hanoi in northern Viet Nam, French officers report that "the situation steadily grows no better...
Volume I begins with a sprightly, boyish letter to one of his guardians in 1760, when Jefferson was 16, ends with a militia strength return he made as a county lieutenant in 1776. Between these commonplace entries are some of the greatest state papers in the nation's history, all drafted by Jefferson: the Declaration of Independence, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Jefferson's three drafts for the Constitution of Virginia. Even in times of enormous stress his free-wheeling mind could shuttle between the gravest matters and his airiest interests. Writing to John...
...notice, signed by William H. Ashley, militia general and Missouri businessman, was just about as vague as most other help-wanted ads, but it brought results. Applicants fresh from "the grogshops and other sinks of iniquity in the rough frontier river town of St. Louis" helped fill the quota, and on April 3, 1823, a year after the ad appeared, Ashley's "enterprising young men" hit the trail. The duties of the new hands: to push their wav to the mouth of the Yellowstone River, erect a fortified trading post there and trap beaver in the surrounding country...
...first victim to tell his first-hand story is Michael Shipkov, a Bulgarian. Shipkov was a translator for the U.S. Legation in Sofia, which moved out two weeks ago when the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. He is now in the hands of the Bulgarian State Security Militia (secret police) for the second time. The first time, he was tortured into a false confession that he had been an espionage agent for the U.S. and Britain. Then the secret police sent him back to spy on the U.S. Legation for the militia. Instead, he wrote an account...
...thereafter were to cleanse myself of some of this depravity and baseness ... by giving the Legation a true statement of the whole affair . . . Therefore, I state in full earnestness and truth, freely and eagerly, that any statement that I may have made orally or in writing to the militia ... is false, untrue, and dragged out of me against my will . . . I want the Legation to bring to the knowledge of the militia that any attempt of theirs to make use of that statement of mine will be countered by exposure of this letter...