European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Greenbere Aaron Banks at age 85 daring exploits behind enemy Tinea. By Charlie bowmen Munich bureaus t 85, slightly Bent his Slep a lit lie slower Aaron Banks today hardly looks like Iho Man chosen to Lead a ragtag Bunch of German rows on a Mission of capture Adoll Hitler Bui. As he Fiche goes looks can be deceiving. Banks recognized As the Tather of the army s Green berets was in dad Tolz West Germany recently or a 35th anniversary reunion with about 150 others who were part of he army s Lisl special forces unit in recounting a life tilled with novel like adventures the retired colonel puts that eleventh hour Mission at the top of a Long list of daring exploits behind enemy Linos. In an operation code named Iron Cross. Banks and four other americans were supposed to Lead about 100 German prisoners posing As a Mountain infantry company Inlo he inn Valley of Austria. After you had a couple of successful missions with the Oss someone would come up Wilh one that could get you kitted Banks said. For the former Playboy lifeguard. Iron Cross was that Mission. Banks was an sob an Active duty army officer on loan As a Field operative to the special operations Branch of the Tolice of strategic services the civilian cloak and Dagger unit put together by William . French speaking Banks was already a survivor of three missions into occupied France Al the Home he was assigned to Iron Cross. The new Mission would put Banks into the heart of the nazis s so called Alpine redoubt wearing a German officer s uniform and having to account for barely passable German an elaborate cover was established with Banks playing Henri Marchand a native of Martinique who had joined the German army. The operation was scheduled to Start in late april 1945, when the third Reich already was near collapse. Banks and his Advance party moved to an Airfield in Dijon Franco for their Airdrop near the Village of Schwaz Austria. For six consecutive Days bad weather interceded to waited Lor Iho weather to Clear and that was just Long enough for Iho Mission to be scratched Banks said Tho Loam was disbanded and Banks was sent to Indochina where tie became another footnote in the spy books As the read a Story recently about the debut of new fashions irom thu collection of designer Giorgio Armani it was one of Hosn Elo conc fashion moments when  and skill Como  wrote one writer a Rie Philmont store executive added i Juja absolutely chilling i pc go i Throe buyers Back there in tears and  has no Var happened Bosforo Fhy Ems ii that has never happened blare is because it icy be never seen anything like Trie skill Pant Hooie Mark a  the a Kurjani is destined to become the a Dalool the fashion it isl y it is As hard to explain i5 it i j to Wear it s a skill thai is Cul with Lull legs and hits about Rnic Lynll the pants Paul in t visible until you begin to walk Oon l even think of crossing your Lerus to put it another Way Gul a picture of the slalom of Texas in your Rind the Waistband is Dalhart then when you get to Odessa on one Side and Dallas fort Worth on the other you see a tanning out Lite the town Page 16 the stars and stripes dam just broke a 37-Pound woman will look like a billboard in one a Lew years ago designers came out with a Sun met Uei Sion called the Cul Otlo " they looked great irom the Irani but the moment someone walked Inlo the Sunset to them she looked like she had been Riding a horse for iliac Days. Sometimes i can l figure designer out it s Asil they flunked human Anatomy. In my mind i visualize them As people confined to a Small room with a chair and a sketch pad Tho Only people they see Aro starved models they have never seen a women who eals Lei lovers Over the sink. They have Neves seen a woman who wears her pantyhose like a Bikini. Who am i kidding7 they be never seen a woman who eals lunch belore1 Ive always Houghl it would be Hoove dress designers to make paper dolls out of Renaissance women who hang out on museum Walls and ceilings. Saturday. October 23.1988 anything they design they would Dusl Iron these women to see How much in revealed How much in covered and in Tho stripes were going the right Way. They re what most women look like they we women with stomachs chests that Are losing the War to Gravity and legs Hal sound like they re being followed by a group when they walk across the floor if designers had draped these pasta portraits in miniskirts the world would never have seen them on the Racks. I never Leaf through a copy of National geographic without realizing How Lucky we Are to live in a society where in is traditional to Wear clothes not Only do they make Silling on a Wicker chair easier bul they also cover up nature s mistakes. Most of the Lime. There Are women who will buy and who will Wear Iho skirt Paesl because they Are trendy bul i will never see a Shripal Hom the rear without an image of a Bull s oys coming to mind