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...place, the villains might be Jews, immigrants, longhairs or blacks, whoever might do as targets for the shared anxieties of the age. In late 20th century America, we keep ourselves supplied with useful goblins. When his wife and children were murdered in 1971, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret physician eventually convicted of the crime, insisted that the killers were Charles Manson-type hippies who had broken into their home. What better suspect in a time when, in the minds of many, the whole counterculture was a bug-eyed intruder? And in a society that began to demonize African Americans...
...Port-au-Prince, Shelton has become the de facto proconsul; his 10th Mountain Division is for the moment Haiti's replacement army, civil service, utility company and public relations firm. In the countryside, 31 U.S. Army Green Beret A Teams, each made up of about 12 soldiers, have quietly fanned out to key towns and villages. They are holding town meetings in Pilate and Plaisance. Further south in Hinche, Special Forces soldiers just completed "Operation Light Switch," getting a generator up and running to restore some power. "The people are now out in the streets," said a secret report sent...
...stopped and pondered. Was I in France? Why were the French wearing all this American stuff while I was wearing a beret? Why were they speaking more English than I hear in my house in America...
...walked away from the group of teenagers, I realized that they were very similar to me and to other American teenagers. I say "bonjour" and "au revoir" once in a while. I wear a beret occasionally and drink French wine because I think these things are pretty cool. And while I don't have a problem using these bits and pieces of the French culture in my everyday life, I would have a problem giving up my language, religion or dress for the sake of universality...
...humanitarian's ultimate nightmare. Famine relief turns into counterinsurgency. From Red Cross to Green Beret in six months...