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...monthly Black Enterprise magazine four years ago, now values its investment at nearly $500,000. Graves went from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto to win a scholarship at Morgan State, later was an adviser to Senator Robert Kennedy's Bed-Stuy redevelopment project. An ex-Green Beret captain and federal narcotics agent, he started Black Enterprise in 1970, turned a profit the first year, now earns more than $2 million in ad revenues. Suave and ambitious, Graves has expanded into book publishing, urban consulting, land development and market research...
...Ulster's Catholic minority, Gaughan became an instant martyr. His emaciated body, enclosed in a coffin of Irish wood, with a black beret (the insigne of the I.R.A.) on top, will lie in state this week in Irish sectors of London and Manchester, as well as in Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army...
...What former Nixon aide wears ties with embroidered elephants, entertains guests with a recording of the Marine Battle Hymn, and has the Green Beret motto, "If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will soon follow," inscribed above...
...Eight miles away, the 19-member executive committee of the Spanish bishops conferred with Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón, Archbishop of Madrid. Among the 19 was Añoveros, who seemed scarcely contrite about having provoked the crisis. He had arrived in the capital wearing a Basque beret...
Athens, Greece, November 17, 1973. 1 a.m. The director of the prosecutor's office joins General Thomopoulos, chief of national security, in the police headquarters building. A Greek green beret colonel in civilian attire has been awaiting their arrival since the afternoon...