Word: beret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businesses, the United States military makes its presence felt. There are nine military bases in Puerto Rico occupying about 13 per cent of the land, among this some of the best arable land and some of the best harbors. Installations include a Strategic Air Command base, a Green Beret training camp, an atomic submarine base, and an atomic arsenal...
...lives!" is the slogan for a generation of restless students and budding revolutionaries the world over. The Black Panthers, who occasionally style themselves "Che-type," have adopted his black beret. Arab guerrillas sometimes name combat operations in his honor. Posters of Che adorn dorm walls from Berkeley to Berlin, and his books have become basic-training manuals for the New Left. Writers from Graham Greene to Susan Sontag have extolled him. West German Playwright Peter Weiss (Marat/ Sade) has even compared him to "a Christ taken down from the Cross...
...used to equip six battalions of Khmer Krom mercenaries (ethnic Cambodians from Viet Nam), provide much-needed radio communications, buy 40 military trucks and trailers, and send about 10,000 Cambodian troops to Thailand and South Viet Nam for military training. Says Jonathan (Fred) Ladd, 49, a former Green Beret colonel who was called out of retirement to oversee arms aid: "It's a very modest program, primarily for maintaining a defensive capability...
...most notorious recent court-martials: the trial of the "Presidio 27." who staged a peaceful protest in a west coast military stockade to protest inhumane prison conditions: and the court-martial of Captain Howard Levy, the Army doctor who was sent to prison for refusing to train Green Beret medical corpsmen...
...Levy's case, for instance, defense attorneys made it quite clear that Levy's commander ordered him to train Green Beret aidmen only after he learned Levy had said he would refuse to work with them, and before Levy's base had any formal program for training Berets. A formal program was hastily concocted in the middle of the court-martial, the day before one of Levy's fellow physicians was scheduled to testify...