Word: beret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really caught unawares. I wish him another 25," said Mel Dorfman, perhaps the most "regular" of Tommy's regulars. A familiar sight with his black beret, white beard, and stack of used books, Dorfman has eaten one or two meals in the luncheonette every day for the last three years; he said he has been dropping by "off and on" for the last...
Stallone plays an ex-Green Beret adrift in the Pacific Northwest, his final mooring cut loose by the discovery that his last surviving buddy from the old unit has died of cancer. Escorted out of a small town by an overzealous sheriff who mistakes him for a hippie (there is a certain antique air about the movie, which is based on a 1972 novel), he returns to assert his right to come and go as he pleases. This leads to jail, a breakout and the extraordinary wilderness chase that occupies the bulk of the film. In it, Stallone stands...
...them taking part in Tripoli's intervention in neighboring Chad in 1980. He is also suspected of peddling sophisticated American electronic equipment to Middle East countries and attempting to sell U.S. computer technology to the Soviet Union. Investigators in Colorado have linked him to a former Green Beret who shot a Libyan student in Fort Collins two years ago. Federal grand juries in several cities are looking into his activities, and more indictments are likely this summer...
...colonel had described the prisoner as having a black beret with a Cuban-type star on it. (Nobody knew exactly what a Cuban-type star was supposed to look like.) In another report, the prisoner was said to have died. "Now they'll never know if he had a Cuban accent," said one reporter. Out in the countryside, ABC and NBC vans in search of the elusive Cuban bogged down in the mud, and a Salvadoran peasant collected two crisp 100 colones notes ($80) to haul the vans out with a team of oxen-while a network cameraman captured...
...under way at the famous Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, the birthplace of Solidarity. On Tuesday night a few friendly soldiers had shared coal fires with some of the workers, trying to stay warm in the bitter Baltic winter. But early the next day, special armored units and elite Red Beret forces arrived to seize the plant. As six helicopters circled overhead, troops attacked the occupied buildings. They met with only passive resistance from the workers inside. A crowd of spectators was kept to a distance of 500 yards and tear gas was sprayed in the area. At one point leaflets...