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...style pageant outside the vast convention hall: long-haired, body-pierced youths waved hand-painted signs with such slogans as SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL and DON'T LET THEM NAB OUR AIRWAVES; a 30-ft. red, white and blue banner proclaimed MICROPOWER; and a red-bearded man in sandals and beret cried out, "Communication is your divine right whether you're a human being or a dog or a lizard! Bring back the village square! Let microtransmitters bloom in every town and city...
...NOVEMBER Clinton re-elected. Now famous video captures him hugging beret-clad Lewinsky at reception on White House lawn...
Renegade publisher Paladin Press was founded in 1970 by Peder Lund, a former Green Beret captain, and Robert Brown, who later left to start Soldier of Fortune magazine. The Boulder, Colo., publisher's "Action Library" runs heavily to books on armed combat and bombmaking. Among its classic titles: Homemade C-4: A Recipe for Survival, a book whose discussion of ammonium nitrate Timothy McVeigh allegedly used to assemble the Oklahoma City bomb. Paladin also sells instructional videos like Winning a Street Knife Fight: Realistic Offensive Techniques and the fast-selling Advanced Ultimate Sniper. Lund makes no apologies for the information...
Shelton's career began in the jungles of Vietnam, leading Green Beret incursions into enemy territory. While there, he earned a Bronze Star and, after stepping on a manure-covered bamboo spike, a Purple Heart--the kind of wound that won Colin Powell the same medal in the same war. But unlike Powell, who spent much of his career in Washington's power corridors, Shelton has scant capital experience...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Green Beret commander Henry Shelton is next up to run the gauntlet in hopes of emerging as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having been recommended for the post by William Cohen. If confirmed, Shelton,55, would be the first Special Operations officer to serve as the country's military advisor supremo. The ground commander for the 1994 U.S. invasion of Haiti and the head of the Special Operations Command, Shelton is by all accounts a no-nonsense muti-service military man in a multitask world. Which fits the agenda that awaits him: smoothing...