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Like many a Texas barroom brawl, the fight between a Viet Nam veteran and a friend in the Panhandle town of Phillips was ostensibly over a girl. But by the time it ended, the friend lay dead of seven gunshot wounds. The veteran, a former Green Beret, dazed and thinking he had just killed an attacking Viet Cong, was stripping the body so that it could not be rigged with booby traps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Violent Veterans | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...scene here," says Lipton, "but he failed. There was agony, soul-searching, fights with Fay. He may have been the closest thing Cornell had to a hippie, but you know what that means -sometimes he didn't tie his tie." Lipton adds disdainfully: "He never bought a beret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME : The Fabulous Hoax of Clifford Irving | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...Army's symbol of the Perfect Fighting Man. A picture of Herbert -face smudged with camouflage greasepaint, rifle gripped menacingly-illustrated a manual for elite Ranger trainees. His way through the Army was the fighter's way-training in mountaineering, as a parachutist, a Green Beret. With the rows of ribbons, the close-cropped haircut, the polished gleam of his uniform's brass, he was a five percenter, the top rank of officers promoted more quickly than their colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MILITARY: Colonel Herbert v. the Army | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

Some private villa owners good-naturedly complied. Prince Bertil of Sweden, a democratic fellow who wears a beret while riding around Ste.-Maxime on a mini-motorcycle, willingly cut a passage through the wicker fence around his villa's beach. At Cabasson, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who could claim extraterritoriality for her beach by virtue of her title, readily admitted sunbathers and swimmers to her beach provided they were decently dressed and not too noisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Battle of the Beaches | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...program has the backing of Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland; an overall evaluation has been scheduled for this July. Perhaps more significantly, two more Green Beret teams were sent out in the field last month, this time crossing state borders. One twelve-man team is currently in the hamlet of Glenn Springs, S.C., 13 miles southeast of Spartanburg; and a 26-man unit is running a project at Lame Deer on the Tongue River Indian Reservation, home of the Northern Cheyenne, in Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Nation-Mending at Home | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

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