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...Tall, trim, with grey hair, steely blue eyes and a strong nose and chin, Harkins looks every inch the professional soldier. Under him serve some 5,000 U.S. troops (soon to be raised to 8,000) including the U.S. Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces...
...Where is my wife?" asked S.A.O. Chief Raoul Salan when the Sante Prison gates closed on him in Paris last month. Slight, trim Lucienne Salan had been an army nurse when he met her in Indo-China in 1938, and when in 1944 Salan finally joined the Free French, she became an army driver. La Bibiche (little doe), the soldiers called the frail woman with the thin legs, the long face, the velvet eyes. But she was harder than she looked, and as her husband moved up the army ladder, she supervised his schedule, his appointments, his travel (avoid airplanes...
ragged suits-that had been the garb of the original rebels in 1954. and finishing with a trim military band and disciplined, well-drilled detachments clad in U.S.-style fatigue uniforms and armed with Communist-made recoilless rifles, machine guns, mortars and bazookas...
Prenatal Pose. ''Could I fit into a suitcase?" she asked. Looking at her trim 5-ft., 100-lb. figure, Bernd gulped his drink and said they could try. If caught, Maria thought it meant three years in jail for her, ten for Bernd. "They'd accuse you of being a Western slave trader." They paid $6.50 for a brown plasterboard suitcase that...
...color is high, his face almost unlined, his figure trim, his nervous energy controlled. He stays on the go from early morning to early morning, sees an in credible number of people and performs an incredible number of tasks. He listens to his advisers, makes his decisions and sticks by them. Most of all he has learned that the nation's problems cannot be considered in absolute terms; that a part-success is better than nothing, that failure is rarely cataclysmic...