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...Last War of Olly Winter" Combined a sense of news-broadcast immediacy with Ivan Dixon's powerful portrayal of a Negro sergeant caught in a jungle skirmish. It brought back the best dramatic techniques of TV in the fifties, and was a welcome relief from the thirty-minute-plots we have become accustomed...
...government abolished all ranks in the army. Officers were to wear generally unadorned uniforms--smocks, pants, and caps of the revolutionary days were encouraged. Each man's title referred only to his rank. Sergeant Wang was now Artillery Specialist Wang; Colonel Li was now Company Commander Li, or simply Comrade Company Commander, or, for the courageous, just Comrade...
Lieut. Colonel Eyadéma, a burly ex-sergeant in the French colonial army who fought in Indo-China and Algeria, blandly admits that it was he who fired the rifle that killed Olympic. The 250-man army then gave power to Grunitzky, a portly, phlegmatic mulatto (his father was German) who spent most of his time taking health cures in France. Last November he had to hurry back from France to head off an abortive coup by followers of Olympic, who accused him of indecision and too close a tie with Togo's former colonial masters in France...
...military makes every man dependent on his most elemental skills and instincts. All within hearing distance of the whip-lash voice of the master sergeant are equal, and all may be sent--without warning, or justification or purpose--to destruction...
...days later, 60,000 fans - most of them holding tickets - showed up for a soccer game between Thailand and Nationalist China. The stadium, unfortunately, had only 30,000 seats. In the ensuing stampede, dozens were injured, and a Royal Thai Air Force sergeant was trampled to death...