Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just 15 years ago, Hwang was sweeping floors at a Lake Tahoe casino to make ends meet while earning his engineering degree. A native of North Korea who fled to the south during the Korean War, Hwang served in the South Korean army before coming to the U.S. In 1976, when he started TeleVideo in his northern California garage, he had trouble finding backers. Some friends chipped in enough to keep him going after he won a small contract to supply Atari with video monitors for its electronic games...
...would not unambiguously assure the panel that the program would be targeted at all non-democratic nations and not just Communist societies. And he skirted the issue raised by a New York Democrat who asked: "Are we prepared to provide help to democrats in such places as South Korea, the Philippine, in such places as Taiwan, where there are governments friendly to the United States, but obviously with little respect for democracy...
...year in Korea and no end in sight. Last week we suffered a visitation by some brigadier general who tried to boost morale by telling us that we are bringing democracy to this green and peasant land. That was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. I felt like telling His Belligerence that what this country needs is a good five-cent czar. My tentmate, Major Frank Burns, is even more amusing, if you get your laughs from psychotic paranoia complicated by a spine-wide streak of yellow. He thinks we're here to save Korea from the Koreans...
...Alda, who was starring in films and TV movies without having hit it big and who was now ready for the right series. "In talking with Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds," Alda recalls, "I wanted to be sure that we weren't making an Abbott & Costello Go to Korea, using the war just as a straight line for the jokes. The war had to be a springboard for our best efforts, exploring the horror, not ignoring it." Everyone agreed that this would be, in Reynolds' words, "a different Hawkeye, more sensitive, compassionate and serious than in the film...
...that, speculation turns to fancy. Will Radar or Frank or Trapper or even a resurrected Henry Blake return, in person or in flashback? Will everyone survive the armistice? Or will, as one waggish M*A*S*H watcher suggests, the 4077 be told that they have been literally in Korea for these eleven years, that it is now 1963 and time to re-up for Viet...