Word: beretful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...should have at least puzzled and disturbed him, which plainly was not the case." Colonel Robert Rheault, former commander of U.S. Special Forces in Viet Nam, makes a different point. "Calley is guilty of murder," says Rheault, himself a onetime (never tried) murder suspect in the famous 1969 Green Beret triple-agent case. As an expert on anti-guerrilla warfare in Viet Nam, Rheault told TIME last week: "Nobody ever had a policy of mowing down women and children. Our policy was to protect women and children as much as possible...
...anti-Communist propaganda films produced by the Pentagon years ago and still being shown. CBS cameras also covered the Army's much-traveled lecturing colonels; their speeches violated service regulations against public statements on the foreign policy aspects of Viet Nam. Other segments depicted a violent Green Beret karate demonstration and children reveling in it, and a group of VIPs-getting four-star treatment on a Defense Department tour-going gung-ho after test-firing high-priced weaponry. The network included criticism of itself. Walter Cronkite was the Government's narrator in one of the cold war films...
...Green Beret field manual, Department of Defense publications on the Montagnards, and Saigon officials all told the HAC that the Montagnards of Quang Ngai have a long history of rice growing on terraced fields...
DiCara amassed a number of activities there that made him undisputed Boston champion in the brag list competition. He built up a dependable constituency and attracted other support by appearing at all the football games as head water boy dressed in purple sneakers, socks, pants, sweater, and beret...
...right to civilian counsel then goes on to prohibit any Government payment of expenses; therefore, it would be wrong for the Army to provide mail, phone and transportation services free of charge. When Aronson noted that civilian lawyers for defendants in the My Lai massacre and the 1969 Green Beret double-agent murder cases were given extensive military cooperation in Viet Nam, the Army counsel brushed the comparison aside, stating that "special political considerations" were involved in those cases...