Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heralded F-lll fighter-bomber had to be grounded while its defects were investigated. A House subcommittee charged technical failures and deception in a tank development program. A deadly nerve-gas test went awry, killing thousands of sheep, and the Army tried to cover it up. The once vaunted Green Berets are enmeshed in an ugly scandal. All these and more come atop popular anger over high taxes and prices. A new Gallup poll indicated that 52% of the public now regard military spending as too high, while only 8% think that expenditures should be increased. That...
...Viet Nam, the Green Berets were assigned the task of border surveillance, interdiction of enemy supply routes, attacks and ambushes. In addition, they work with the border natives, mostly Nungs and Montagnards, operating nearly 70 border and highlands camps where a dozen Green Berets will spearhead a force of several hundred irregulars...
There have long been reports that the Green Berets also employ some dirty ways-if occasionally necessary ones. It is as easy to confirm such reports as it is to get the CIA to admit that it engages in spying on other countries. Nonetheless, the Special Forces have been accused of torturing and killing prisoners, parachuting poisoned foodstuffs into enemy camps, and slipping doctored ammunition, designed to explode on use, into enemy arms caches...
...high-rolling days, when prominent clergymen, judges and politicians felt it an honor to be entertained at the home of the mobster known as Joe Bananas. When the Government tried to deport Bonanno in 1954, for instance, among those who testified as character witnesses were the Most Rev. Francis Green, former Congressman Harold Patten and former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Evo DeConcini (the Most Rev. Francis Green is now the Roman Catholic bishop of Tucson...
...preferential treatment continues right up to the teller's window. Club members do business in a special section of the bank decorated in lively shades of yellow, green and blue that contrast sharply with the beige carpets and gray draperies found elsewhere. Club members pay a $3 monthly service charge and must open accounts at the bank with a $50 minimum deposit. In return, they receive 30 rainbow-colored free checks a month, a free $10,000 accidental-death policy and an open line of credit good for up to $2,000. Most accounts start small but soon grow...