Word: beret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quang Nam's mayor was something special too. Slight, gaunt of face behind a thick mustache, Ngo Tuong, 49, was a Popular Forces soldier who had come back home to serve as mayor only last month. Tuong liked to wear a black beret and a camouflage suit in making the rounds of his constituency, was both efficient and remarkably honest. Though he carried a pistol, he disdained a regular Marine guard detail, rightly judging that it would not sit well with his villagers. Anyway, there seemed little danger. Ap Quang Nam had been so thoroughly pacified after the marines...
Have him win the green beret...
...Wear the beret proudly," John F. Kennedy enjoined the U.S. Army's Special Forces in 1962. "It will be a mark of distinction and a badge of courage in the fight for freedom." It was Kennedy who gave the elite corps back its jaunty green berets, after the brasshats had removed them and reduced the highly trained counterinsurgency fighters to a less independent role. And despite their distinguished record in Viet Nam, controversy over the Special Forces still sputters in the Pentagon...
...jack-of-all-subversion, a screeching Communist fanatic who raised her nino on Marxist dogma but never had the influence she wanted until her son's rise to power in Cuba, after which she traveled the hemisphere as a Communist Front organizer clad in leather jacket and Basque beret, and forever sporting a pistol-even when she sat down to dinner; of cancer; in Buenos Aires...
...heavy-set man in a neatly pressed blue suit and beret stepped out of War saw's shabby district court at 127 General Swierczewski Street into a welcoming crowd of 300, mostly writers and students. They surrounded the old man and patted him on the back. Two girls embraced him and handed him red roses. Said he: "All the nice people seem to be here." Melchior Wankowicz, 72, one of Poland's most popular novelists, had just been convicted by the not-so-nice people in courtroom No. 16 of "slandering the People's Republic of Poland...