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WANTED: EXPERTS IN POISONS AND CHEMICAL AGENTS WITH ACCESS TO SAME. That ad, in the paramilitary journals Gung-Ho and Soldier of Fortune, was not submitted by one of the adventurers and mercenaries who commonly read them; it was placed by William Chanslor, former president of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association. His mission: to end the life of his invalid wife painlessly and undetectably. But by last week his scheme had unraveled in a fashion so bizarre that his wife was pleading his innocence in court while prosecutors played tapes of him planning her death. Nonetheless, the jury unhesitatingly convicted...
...register for the draft or sign up as a conscientious objector? The question threatens to overburden a small, finely balanced novel of physical awakening. But the risks pay off in an unexpected dimension. Daniel's brother Albert, a Marine Corps officer, offers advice that goes beyond the usual gung-ho justifications. "Your private longing may be to live," he writes, "but that counts for nothing. You cannot escape the world and its public longing . . . You must bear the world. I do. I bear it less well in peace than in war, because I know that we destroy ourselves more...
...aired next season. The production has all the ingredients for a prime-time megasoap: a four-hour, two-part schedule, glamorous locales and three beautiful people: Linda Evans, 39, from Dynasty, Genie Francis, 20, late of General Hospital, and Donna Mills from Knots Landing. Francis plays a gung-ho executive who goes to work for a large, shaky corporation. She saves the situation by teaming up with the race-car-driving, playboy heir to the company to steer the organization into the fragrance business and a perfume that is Bare Essence. The show is obviously musk viewing for the heads...
...sometimes very good," he acknowledged, at ducking questions. Four times in 15 minutes he answered, "It's too early to say"-a damp response in show-biz terms, but then it often is too early to say. "Aren't you really pleased," asked George F. Will, the gung-ho conservative, at the defeat of two Soviet clients, Syria and the P.L.O.? Haig has learned to listen carefully for imbedded assumptions in questions he is asked. Haig: "No one is pleased when circumstances involve the loss of lives, and innocent lives." The final question concerned Kirkpatrick, who seems...
...country "a large mistake. Until you've been through an experience like that it looks very dramatic and exciting, but I'm not up for going into a dangerous situation like Iran again." She pauses, then adds. "That's one place I've probably changed. I used to be gung ho, charging I must admit the temptation is slowly coming back, but it ain't back...