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Just north of Great Bitter Lake, a U.N. station wagon drove up to a military police checkpoint. Vast clouds of dust, churned up by tank trailers, had all but obscured the "U.N." that had been painted on the once white vehicle. An Irish officer in a powder-blue beret shook his head. "How can we fix the lines as they were on Oct. 22 [the day of the first Security Council truce]? None of us were here then. We don't know where the parties were, and you can't believe either side. Our business...
...Miller of Britain's Royal Marines. The English contribution to a two-year, one-for-one exchange program, Christie-Miller spent D-day writing an article on European skiing. "I try to keep out of sight," he said. "Usually, when the press comes about, I take off my beret and insignia. Don't want to let anyone think you chaps are training British soldiers...
...they" refers to the handful of known black militants on the island. The closest thing to a militant organization is the now defunct Black Beret Cadre, which flourished briefly with protests and a publication from 1968 to 1970. At least two former members of the cadre were being held this week in police custody...
Carter, flaunting a luxuriant red beard and one of his normally outlandish outfits--purple beret, electric blue and yellow sweater, khaki pants with large patches of turquoise, maroon and purple, as well as green poles with orange Day-Glo baskets--slithered through the 550-foot course with the best times for each of the two runs, and defeated runnerup David Dodge of the University of Vermont by over a second. Ben Steele, star of Carter's intercollegiate team, remained off the peak he reached winning EIS championships three weeks ago at Middlebury and finished third. Dodge finished fourth...
There are, of course, many other deserters and draft dodgers who want to come home now that the war has ended, but they do not dare face the risks. One Green Beret medic who deserted Army training at Fort Bragg, N.C., four years ago was arrested and was being court-martialed when he escaped and made his way to Sweden. Last summer he arrived in Canada with another American expatriate whom he had married in Stockholm. Now he wants to return to the U.S. "I have a feeling for the U.S. and the future," he says...