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...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...
...Correspondents could not even hint of the invasion through censorship, but nobody expected them to: trust was mutual. Korea was fought without censorship. Yet James A. Bell, who covered No Name Ridge and other battles for TIME, was among cor respondents told days in advance of the landing at Inchon, which proved to be one of the great tactical surprises...
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More bad news for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Not only has the religious cult leader lost his case to the IRS but he must now face the fact that Inchon, his first, $46 million venture as a movie financier, is unlikely to contribute so much as a dollar to defraying his legal fees...
Intended to celebrate the famous victory of General Douglas MacArthur at the title harbor during the Korean War, when he sneaked an army in behind his enemy, cutting them off from home and supplies, Inchon is, as military spectacles go, one of the sorriest in movie history. Behind the sunglasses and corncob, underneath the plastered-down hair, is Laurence Olivier as the general, unable to cut loose either with an approximation of MacArthur's grand manner or the satire of it he seems sometimes to want to try. On the ground in Korea, caught in a withering enfilade...