Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left, Gorbachev's greatest challenge comes from the reactionary conservatives. They make up a bizarre patchwork quilt: hard- line trade unionists and factory workers from groups like the United Worker's Front who oppose a "return to capitalism"; military officials angered by plans to convert defense factories to civilian use; entrenched party apparatchiks who fear the loss of position and privileges; and Russian nationalists who hanker after the Czarist past, many of them aligned with the reactionary Pamyat (Memory) movement. Whatever their ideological differences, the conservatives are united by a concern that the reforms are moving too fast and bringing...
...sooner was the ink dry than Ortega accused the Salvadoran army of dropping bombs on civilian neighborhoods in San Salvador. Cristiani's post- summit assessment of the Nicaraguan: "I don't trust Ortega...
According to a U.S. Southern Command statement, the officer was "off duty, unarmed and in civilian clothes when he and three others were stopped by Panamanian soldiers near the Defense Headquarters in the old section of Panama City...
...with more than 200 bombings and singled out and killed at least 13 officials. By the standards of civil war, the DAS headquarters would qualify as a military target and therefore part of the price paid by a country in conflict. But by blasting out of the sky a civilian airplane filled with innocent passengers, the narcos served notice that no one is safe from their vengeance...
...Ramos' response to every rebellion has been to patch up relations between the various military factions and restore the uneasy status quo between reformist officers and old-line, self-interested generals. Aquino can no longer afford that kind of detente. Moreover, it has not worked. If she cannot impose civilian authority on the armed forces, then her government may be sidelined into irrelevancy as rival military groups battle it out. Says a young officer who backs the government: "I think Cory will have to be hard on the rebels." But to balance out the harshness, he says, "she must also...