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Despite such feats, the likelihood is that the Green Berets will hardly recognize themselves-or, for that matter, their surroundings or their enemy-in John Wayne's version. In the movie, the camp's single .50-cal. machine gun sits splendidly unprotected on a little hillock and the commanders direct the battle from a fragile watchtower that the Communists somehow manage to miss to the last; in reality, Green Beret camps are heavily bunkered, often reinforced with cement. In the movie, an evening's relaxation for Special Forces officers involves an outing to a Miami-style club...
...movie claims, Americans dropped more bombs on Viet Nam than they did on Germany during all of World War II. In that case, one more bomb may not matter. Its name is The Green Berets, based on Robin Moore's bestseller. To Producer, Co-Director and Star John Wayne, the war is primer-simple. There's them and there's us. Us are the Green Beret crack troops led by Wayne with a chestful of fruit salad and a no-nonsense approach to the dovish American press, personified by David Janssen. During the beating...
...group of people. Still, within bounds, such attempts at mass analysis can be useful. Last week two psychiatrists addressing the 124th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Boston assessed the psychological forces at work within two of the nation's most militant if dissimilar groups-Green Beret volunteers and members of the Black Power movement. A third presented his views on the attitudes of white city fathers who must cope with militant blacks. - Dr. Peter G. Bourne, a staff psychiatrist at Stanford University Medical Center, spent three months observing a twelve-man Special Forces "A" team...
...Alive" dot anti-Viet Nam and other student protest demonstrations, and portraits of Che have been carried in practically every student riot in Europe this spring. Guevara-style beards have become a fad around Milan, and students in Florence have adopted Che's dark blue Basque beret as a trademark. Handkerchiefs, sweatshirts and blouses decorated with his shaggy countenance are popular in half a dozen countries. French schoolgirls hang his photo in their boudoirs alongside those of movie idols, and students at the London School of Economics now greet each other with the salutation "Che." Peruvian grammar-school children...
...Vietnam, the United States still retains its strong position in the provincial capitals of Mau Can, Can Tho and Tho Whut. Even as I speak to you tonight, valiant American men are battling to regain the green beret encampment near...