Word: bereted
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...walked up to the window and put two dollars on Red Beret. (His parents were Thinking Cap and Rebel Rose; that's where they got the name, I guess.) The odds were...
...replaced by brigadier generals, brigadiers by colonels. Their staffs will be reduced accordingly. As South Vietnamese commanders become more confident, the advisers' role will also change, and U.S. personnel attached to South Vietnamese units will become liaison officers coordinating the use of the U.S. support forces remaining. GREEN BERET strength, now 3,500, is expected to remain unchanged. The Green Berets have been highly successful in organizing the Montagnards and other ethnic minorities, as well as in the conduct of intelligence operations in Laos, Cambodia and North Viet Nam. Their work will take on increased importance as U.S. troops...
...will go on active duty as an Army lieutenant in January, and what with the Green Beret case and now this one, I am not at all certain that there is any future for me. If one side doesn't get me, the other will...
...Panthers themselves refuse to give figures; echoing Malcolm X, they contend that "those who know don't say, and those who say don't know." The members include both men and women. Since the once familiar uniform of black leather jacket, turtleneck sweater and black beret has been so widely affected by non-Panthers, they now wear it less frequently. Panther funds come mainly from the 25? newspaper, which sells as many as 100,000 copies a week, and from speaking fees for Panther leaders-although law-enforcement officials contend that the Panthers occasionally participate in robberies...
Last week a new prior arrived in Boquen. Dom Besret (pronounced beret) had been summoned to Rome and dismissed for threatening to destroy the monastic concept. Cistercian superiors were unmoved by his pleas to be permitted to stay on as "president" of a more open community. Explained a Vatican official privately: "If you are going to have a monastery, you must have a monastery. It can't be a country club...