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...president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally funded foundation and think tank devoted to conflict resolution. At his probing, our hosts were willing to allow that U.S. military units might participate in a multinational peacekeeping mission under a non-American general in a U.N. blue beret. But their lack of enthusiasm for the idea was palpable...
LIVING: Mickey Mouse Without a Beret...
...construction gangs completing the Union Pacific Railroad. The significance of this union was unclear, but all hell broke loose anyway. Both men were delighted with the media frenzy they had ignited. "Everything is perfect," intoned Jacques Barzaghi, Brown's spooky alter ego, clad in his trademark black beret...
...office a few hours later. Most of the armed forces had remained loyal, and air force F-16 jets strafed rebel positions, blocking their movements and disrupting their communications. The coup leader, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, 37, dressed in combat gear and a red paratrooper's beret, turned himself in 12 hours after the shooting began, but warned that the military might find "another occasion." More than 1,200 rebel soldiers surrendered, including 136 officers. Officials said as many as 7,000 of the 73,000 troops in the armed forces may have taken part in the uprising...
...executions near the village of Medininkai did not bear the stamp of a Black Beret operation; in previous assaults on customs posts, OMON units had been accused of roughing up people but never of killing anyone. Makutinovich, as well as Soviet Interior Minister Boris Pugo, quickly condemned the massacre and denied responsibility. After a preliminary investigation, a reform group within the Soviet army suggested that the KGB had done the actual killing, - albeit with the complicity of OMON commanders. The KGB denied involvement...