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• Japan's military and civil defenses were unable to stop the Allied attacks.
• Elaborate civil defenses, the thinking went, could aggravate tensions by stoking Soviet fears of an American first strike.
• A perceived threat from neighboring Turkey and a stagnant birthrate are pushing Greece to consider using women to bolster civil defenses in border areas.
• The proposal to reform Swiss civil defenses by focusing on natural catastrophes rather than war got an even bigger 80.5 percent support.
• The Japanese government also sought to improve the country's civil defenses in response to the Doolittle Raid and the threat of further attacks.
• The Clinton administration, rocked by terrorist attacks on Americans at home and abroad, embarked on a wide but sporadic campaign to build civil defenses.
• One of the potential witnesses is Daniel Kolb, a lawyer for Davis Polk & AMP; Wardwell who represents Andersen in its civil defenses in the Enron case.
• Georgi Ananiev of Bulgaria and Victor Babiuc of Romania also agreed that their countries'civil defenses will cooperate in case of environmental or industrial accidents caused by the war in Yugoslavia.
• In a mind-boggling mix of nine referendums, Swiss voters on Sunday agreed to modernize their armed forces, overhaul the Alpine country's civil defenses and keep nuclear energy.
• But despite the fast start, experts say civil defenses across the nation are a rudimentary patchwork that could prove inadequate for what might lie ahead, especially lethal germs, which are considered some of the most dangerous weapons of mass destruction.
• The Pentagon is weighing whether to ask the president to authorize appointment of a military commander who could plan and direct operations to defend the continental United States in the event of germ chaos, a step beyond the civil defenses of the early Cold War.
• Many states increase the degree of planning in their economies during wars; in many cases this extends to rationing, and in some cases to conscription for civil defenses, such as the Women's Land Army and Bevin Boys in the United Kingdom in World War II.
• Besides keeping a sharp eye out abroad for potential terrorist attacks abroad, the new Bush administration should accelerate the civil defenses of this country against biological and chemical attacks to guard against what the experts agree will be a " trend toward greater lethality " in the shadowy world of international terror.
• An even bigger 80.5 percent majority voted to reform Swiss civil defenses by focussing on natural catastrophes rather than war, lowering the maximum age limit from 50 to 40, and initiating joint recruitment procedures with the militia army to make it easier for conscripts to opt for civil defense rather than armed service.