Word: deltas
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Halim didn't speak in the weeks after the treatment. He just stared straight ahead. But the day the MPs were transferring detainees from Camp X-Ray to the newly built Camp Delta, Halim received another beating. Vanessa saw him two days after the move and noticed that his face was black and blue. She tried to investigate why Halim was IRFed the day of the move, but her questions went unanswered...
...brother. We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed help getting on an evacuation flight. On April 29, I boarded an Air Vietnam 707 in Bangkok bound for Saigon. But Tan Son Nhut airport had fallen overnight, and after circling over the Mekong Delta, the flight was diverted to Hong Kong. For me, Vietnam would have to wait. For Nga's family, it was six dreary years of privation before they were allowed to leave...
...years ago, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talked Gen. Peter Schoomaker, into coming out of retirement and leading the Army as its Chief of Staff. Since then, Schoomaker, a former Delta Force commando who's fought all over the world, has been busy creating what both men want: a completely reorganized ground force with smaller more versatile fighting units. Schoomaker, 59, sat down with TIME's Sally Donnelly and Douglas Waller to explain the challenges of changing the Army - and working for a very demanding boss...
...sure I am on his good side. I mean, I don't see it as a good side or bad side. This is big-guy business. Look at who've I worked for my whole life. Guys like Charlie Beckwith [the hard-charging colonel who organized Delta Force]. I don't see this as a get-along deal. What we're doing is working towards common interests. These are big people, they're tough people. This is a tough business. And I don't think you can have too thin a skin...
...that I am gainfully employed—and therefore, in the words of my mother, an asset rather than a liability—when I need my full-calorie City I can sometimes take the Delta shuttle. It’s only two hours that...