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...prime mover behind the military action, by all accounts, was Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan, 48, the shadowy military Lieut. General Chun strongman behind the weak caretaker Cabinet of President Choi Kyu Hah, 60. Chun, a tough career soldier who once fought alongside U.S. forces in Viet Nam, assumed effective control behind the scenes following his couplike arrest last December of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa. Chun has insisted, "I have no political ambitions," but he added to his personal power last month by appointing himself acting chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency...
Novel defense for Viet vets...
Michael Tindall got two Distinguished Flying Crosses, two bronze stars and 32 air medals during his year as an Army helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. Now he faces a September trial in Boston, where his attorney, Joseph Oteri, will use footage from The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now to try to convince a federal jury that even if Tindall did smuggle drugs into the U.S. nearly six years ago, as the Government contends, he should not be held responsible. The reason: the war turned his client into an "action junkie" unable to resist opportunities to enjoy thrills...
...only three actors in the play, but many characters. Cephus is attended by Woman One and Woman Two, who multiply themselves in various roles throughout the evening. Woman One (L. Scott Caldwell) is Cephus' conscience, and principally his childhood sweetheart Pattie Mae. Jailed for refusing to fight in Viet Nam, Cephus loses his farm for back taxes. He gravitates to Woman Two (Michele Shay), a big-city temptress. The city shatters Cephus' moral gyroscope and drives him to drink and drugs, but in a finale that O. Henry might have relished, he gets to go back home again...
...have happily pocketed NBC'S cash and are pushing ahead with their own television plans. They will not have the benefit of NBC's slow-motion replays and freeze frames, but they say they are going all out with 70 mobile units and satellite transmissions to Cuba, Viet Nam and Mongolia. "They have 250 television cameras reserved for the Olympics," wisecracked an American expert on Soviet communications. "With luck, 50 of them will work...