Word: berets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the disciplined, daredevil corps of '60s prose and ballad, the Special Forces, or Green Beret, teams slipped quietly into the countryside miles from their base. Soon the Berets, many of them veterans of countless similar operations in Montagnard villages in the mountains of South Viet Nam, were moving among the natives, ministering to the sick, refurbishing schools, teaching preventive hygiene and first aid. In many ways it was a textbook exercise, except that the locale was not Viet Nam but two poverty-stricken counties in rural North Carolina...
Recently, Green Beret Captain Robert Marasco appeared on the show to justify his killing of a Vietnamese double agent. On another program, Fashion-Model Czarina Eileen Ford got into a ranting match with two other women over whether mannequins are sexually promiscuous (some are, some aren't). Author Luigi Barzini told of the time that Mussolini, accompanied by a phalanx of officials and journalists, was motoring through the countryside. Suddenly the caravan halted and Il Duce got out and walked to a wall, apparently to gaze at the scene. Everybody else respectfully went over to share the leader's bucolic...
...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...