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...group of tourists forced to remain inside the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia as hos tages of the Greeks against Turkish snip ers outside. He told of the "Hollywood scene with planes flying in formation and paratroopers dropping all over Nic osia. Our waiters disappeared and came back wearing khaki uniforms. But at least we never had to pay our bills...
...were made to organize the men and distribute an assortment of old weapons (mainly World War II-vintage M-l rifles) and combat boots, many without laces. Almost everyone, strangely, seemed in a holiday mood. "We will eat the Turks!" said one young, grinning, newly mobilized trooper, wearing his khaki U.S. Army shirt and cradling an aged automatic weapon still caked with grease. As we walked along the streets with the troops, an old lady dressed in black crossed herself and shouted to us: "St. George be with...
...sheep were in amateur hands, but the tall, sunburned man in khaki trousers and work boots wielded with alarming efficiency the forked pole that ducked the woolly heads in insecticide...
Many Israeli soldiers joined their units after traveling either by taxi or by hitchhiking. At midweek, some of the men were still wearing half-civilian clothing. Their khaki shirts and jackets clashed sharply with their more stylish slacks and patterned socks. At villages along the road, groups of teen-agers -some of them Americans visiting Israel-had set up refreshment stands and were offering coffee to the troops...
...skyjackers and an exploding drug traffic. White House officials quickly encouraged the Army to step up its domestic intelligence operations. Within two years, the Army had 25 million "personalities" on file. One of the victims, Adlai Stevenson HI, then Illinois state treasurer, was to call the operation "Kafka in khaki." The dismantling of the Army's internal counterinsurgency department was not begun until 1971, and then only in response to public outcry...