Word: bereted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That force erupted on two bloody Sundays in January, when Black Beret special forces and other Soviet units killed at least 18 people in Vilnius and Riga. Last Friday, Black Berets burned a Lithuanian customs post on the Latvian border and severely beat an unarmed guard. The entrances to official buildings throughout the Baltics are barricaded with concrete slabs, some decorated with patriotic murals. Now Moscow is threatening to impose economic sanctions on any republic that secedes, and the general staff of the armed forces is insisting that the Baltic governments pay "financial compensation" for any of their citizens...
Some bush vets have been drawn to the jungle, subconsciously seeking what therapists call "belated mastery." They want control over an environment that once terrified them. Says former Green Beret Lee Burkins, who has lived in Hawaii for 11 years: "I didn't plan to go back to the jungle to taste my fears. I wanted to achieve inner peace. But I kept looking for a foot, a pair of eyes or a gun muzzle. I had to tell myself not to worry about that anymore...
...neighboring Latvia, special black beret units from the Interior Ministry mounted a similar show of force two weeks ago, causing fear that presidential rule would soon follow. "This invasion," declared the parliament in Riga, "is only a pretext for starting a large-scale attack on the democratic institutions of Latvia." A contingent of Baltic lawmakers gathered for a regional conference in Finland went even further. Echoing the warning of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze when he abruptly resigned in protest last month, they charged that Moscow's display of the iron fist signaled "the restoration of the power of dictatorship...