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October 31, 1983

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a reporter at large

I-LA PLACE DE LA CONCORDE SUISSE

John McPhee

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Swiss Army. Writer joined a group of the Tenth Mountain Division getting ready to patrol a sector of the uppermost Rhone. This …