Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most powerful force in the A.L.N. is former Army Chief of Staff Colonel Houari Boumedienne, 37, a gaunt, chainsmoking ascetic who wears no insignia on his ill-fitting khaki uniform. One of the best-educated men in the F.L.N., Boumedienne attended the two finest Moslem universities, al-Azhar in Cairo and Zi-touna in Tunis, is the editor of a military review. El Djiech (The Army). At present, Boumedienne backs Ben Bella, but he wants to make the army the backbone of the Algerian nation. Boumedienne opposes close economic ties with France as a form of-"neo-colonialism," is against...
...Secretary Robert McNamara has South Viet Nam at the very top of his daily agenda. He has made monthly visits to Hawaii for briefings on the progress of the war, and this week he is scheduled to arrive in Saigon for a firsthand look. He intends to climb into khaki work clothes and set off with Harkins on an intensive field inspection, ranging from the new "strategic hamlets" in the highlands to the training camps of the Mekong Delta, where the Green Berets-the U.S. Special Forces-are instructing Vietnamese soldiers in everything from march discipline to weapons assembly...
...ships and 100 aircraft of Joint Task Force 8 deployed over 6,000,000 sq. mi. of the Pacific. One of those aircraft, an Air Force B-52, sped at high altitude toward the island. In the operations center, Dominic's scientific director, William Elwood Ogle, wearing khaki shorts and a green aloha shirt, nodded to Joint Task Force 8's commander, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, a tough, tall (6 ft. 5 in.) veteran of atomic testing at Eniwetok and former chief of military applications...
Frost still silvered the trees on Strasbourg's Avenue de la Paix last week as Charles de Gaulle stood up and peeled off his khaki greatcoat. Before 2,800 officers summoned from Algeria, Germany and France, he launched into a sonorous speech commemorating the 17th anniversary of Strasbourg's liberation by French tanks. "France," declared its President, "is again menaced, body and soul." Later, staring icily at a tight-lipped audience that included 80 generals and admirals, President de Gaulle turned abruptly to the force that menaces France more urgently than any outside invader: its divided, disaffected army...
...bouzotiki records. And in Act III there is a court-martial, with the key kooks testifying, that resembles a Marx Brothers movie sequence scripted by Salvador Dali. The cook and Mr. General are both outranked in acting honors by John McGiver. He plays and looks like Captain Bligh in khaki...