Word: berets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orphans and World President Edward Daly aboard, fired up its engines and took off in darkness. Said Pilot Kenneth Healy later: "It seemed like the time to go." On the five-hour flight to a refueling stopover at Japan's Yokata Air Force Base, Daly, wearing a green beret, helped Stewardess Jan Wollet diaper the orphans...
...rising price of rice rioted for two days against the Chinese population, which forms the bulk of the merchant class and is an easy scapegoat. When 20 of their number were then arrested in a military crackdown, the students seized an airport commander and held him until Premier Long Beret flew over from Phnom-Penh and worked out a mutual release. By week's end the anti-Chinese feeling seemed to be spreading to the capital, where crowds of students gathered on street corners-waiting, as one described it, "for a Chinese face to smash." The rebellious mood could...
...monthly Black Enterprise magazine four years ago, now values its investment at nearly $500,000. Graves went from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto to win a scholarship at Morgan State, later was an adviser to Senator Robert Kennedy's Bed-Stuy redevelopment project. An ex-Green Beret captain and federal narcotics agent, he started Black Enterprise in 1970, turned a profit the first year, now earns more than $2 million in ad revenues. Suave and ambitious, Graves has expanded into book publishing, urban consulting, land development and market research...
...Ulster's Catholic minority, Gaughan became an instant martyr. His emaciated body, enclosed in a coffin of Irish wood, with a black beret (the insigne of the I.R.A.) on top, will lie in state this week in Irish sectors of London and Manchester, as well as in Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army...
...What former Nixon aide wears ties with embroidered elephants, entertains guests with a recording of the Marine Battle Hymn, and has the Green Beret motto, "If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will soon follow," inscribed above...