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...Washington, State Department official Richard Armitage, then at the Pentagon. But when Schweitzer offered his services, he was turned down. "I had to force Ted down the throats of the intelligence bureacracy," says a Defense Intelligence Agency official. The agency soon reversed itself, and under the code name Swamp Ranger, set Schweitzer to screen the Hanoi archives, copying enormous numbers of documents on a $50,000 data scanner the U.S. provided him -- which Vietnam, to the Pentagon's amazement, allowed...
What do environmentalists suggest? They're no "radicals" or "extremists," as their opponents insist. Says one ranger in Olympic National Park: "You still need some wood, but some of us support more selective cutting...
...global unilateralism and collective internationalism do not seem quite so much like a strategic dichotomy, an either-or choice that the U.S. must make now and live with for decades. Instead, the chiefs want to ; keep all options open. When necessary, they want the U.S. to be the Lone Ranger who can go after a bandido like Manuel Noriega of Panama. But whenever possible, they would prefer to play the sheriff who leads a posse against the likes of Saddam Hussein...
...suspicions are correct, Washington may not be telling the entire story. Major Charles Dennis McKee, called "Tiny" by his Army intelligence friends, was a burly giant and a superstar in just about every kind of commando training offered to American military personnel. He completed the rugged Airborne and Ranger schools, graduated first in his class from the Special Forces qualification course, and served with the Green Berets. In Beirut he was identified merely as a military attache assigned to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). But his hulking physique didn't fit such a low- profile diplomatic post. Friends there...
...they lost their place to live and soon were out on the street. For a while they slept in a parking lot in their 1978 Buick LeSabre, until the police shooed them away. Then they spent some nights in Park Road Park, sneaking in about midnight after the park ranger left and departing by dawn before he returned. They hid blankets and pillows in the bushes and slept on a picnic table under a streetlight, where the mosquitoes weren't so bad. They took showers with a five-gallon water jug and washed up in the bathrooms, one standing guard...