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...West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital and blasted away at the walls with a pistol and rifle, screaming that he was losing his mind because of Agent Orange. Two months later, he was found dead with a jug of whisky and an empty pill bottle beside him. A former artillery sergeant, Steve Androff, 33, went on last week with a fast he began on May 27 in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. It is a vet's version of the I.R.A. protest, designed to coerce some attention to victims of Agent Orange. Over the July Fourth weekend...
Larry Mitchell would know. He understands the murderous brew of rage and fear and firepower that produced My Lai. A Philadelphia-born black, Mitchell, 38, went to Viet Nam in 1965 as a sergeant in the Green Berets. "They told us that we were going to make the country a democracy," he remembers now. "I still thought of war in John Wayne terms: only the bad guys got killed." Mitchell was chastened in a hurry; he was rocketed a few minutes after he arrived in the combat zone. "You never saw the enemy. That was the most frightening part. Even...
...this month, the police called Horwitz's widow. They had found the car, the very same 1969 Buick Electra that had disappeared eleven years earlier. The auto is in mint condition, from the paint job to the power gewgaws. Says Sergeant Richard Nazzaro, who with his partner found the car: "What caught our eye was that it was so sharp looking." Their eyes also caught an improper license plate; the driver was stopped and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Sylvia Horwitz is shaken by the recovery. "It was eerie," she says. At least...
...movie provides good, escapist wishfulfillment. No matter how much Murray baits the sergeant, disregards authority and breaks the rules, everything comes out all right. There's even a shootout with Russians in Czechoslovakia which pits 40 Americans against 200 Russians in closerange combat with machine-guns, mortars, grenades and cannons--and nobody gets hurt...
...MOST OF the film, Murray is on his own as the comedian, with the rest of the cast combining to form a single gargantuan straight man. Veteran character actor Warren Oates grimaces his way through his role as the proverbial ornery sergeant. Ramis, as Murray's friend, manages one or two very funny scenes on his own, but for the most part simply provides a solid wall for Murray to bounce his own goofy lines off of. The only real problems with the film come when the minor characters try to join in the fun by grabbing some laughs...