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Last year he was profiled in the New York Post, where he discussed his most recent military reactivation and his last parachute drop, made at the age of 64. He retired from military service as a Green Beret with the rank of lieutenant colonel...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maverick Folic Acid Researcher Dies at 75 | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...attacks." Within two days last week, there were three terrorist attacks in the Philippines: two in the southern city of Zamboanga, one on a bus in Manila. Combined, they left 10 dead. (A bomb in Zamboanga earlier in the month killed an additional three people, including a U.S. Green Beret commando.) Before Bali, terrorists in Kuwait had killed an American Marine, and a French oil tanker off the shores of Yemen had been bombed. In a statement purporting to be from bin Laden posted on a website, al-Qaeda praised the Kuwait and Yemen attacks. And in Italy this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSIDE THE JIHAD: How Al-Qaeda Got Back On The Attack | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...Before the U.S. began moving toward war with Iraq this past summer, Bush and Chavez were hardly amigos. In fact, Chavez lost any chance of winning a chummy nickname from Bush two years ago when, during a visit to Iraq, he called Saddam Hussein "my brother." Chavez's red beret - the symbol of his "revolution," which he wears with the Yanqui-baiting swagger of Che Guevara - didn't help. Nor does the way Chavez taunts his U.S.-friendly opposition, which nearly toppled him last April in a coup, an uprising Chavez supporters accuse the Bush Administration of covertly encouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugo's Crude Common Ground With America | 10/12/2002 | See Source »

...hand, as if it were a country club again. It reminded many Venezuelans of what they elected Chavez to throw out in 1Images like that explain so many Venezuelans still support Chavez. And as long as the oil flows, the U.S. can apparently live with him too - and the beret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugo's Crude Common Ground With America | 10/12/2002 | See Source »

...floors, has a breakfast of nan bread or green tea and gets ready for work. She leaves for work at 8:30 a.m., always immaculately turned out--lipstick and eyeliner carefully applied, tie knotted perfectly on her olive drab shirt, hair pulled up and arranged under her maroon beret. Inside her black army boots, her toenails are painted a glossy red. But Khatol, a Pashtun, still chooses to wear her burqa while shopping, so she will not be overcharged in the bazaar. "The burqa is the culture of Afghanistan. With or without it, I am Khatol," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Woman: From Burqa To Beret | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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