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...Army's Sergeant York antiaircraft weapon, made to shoot down enemy helicopters, has proved a lemon. Known also as DIVAD (Division Air Defense), the system has two radar-guided guns attached to an M48A5 tank chassis. DIVAD has had trouble detecting decoys and hitting helicopters that do not have radar reflectors attached. Nonetheless, the Pentagon has invested $1.5 billion in 276 DlVADs, and last week Richard DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, was preparing a report for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on whether to buy 117 more. While DeLauer was at work, a study...
...setting is a 1944 Louisiana army base where Master Sergeant Vernon Waters, leader of an all Black company, is murdered one dark night outside of the camp. The white base commander seeks to quiet a potentially explosive situation, quickly blaming the shooting on the local Klu Klux Klan. But his efforts are undone when the Army sends a Negro military attorney, a polished, Howard University-trained officer, to investigate. Instead of accepting two seemingly culpable white officers as scapegoats, Captain Richard Davenport pushes on with his search. And with integrity and tenacity, he uncovers the true, frightening nature...
...contract to Davenport, the late Sergeant Waters (Whom we see and hear about in a series of flashbacks) sought to be accepted by white society in a different way. Waters not only adopted white values for himself, but also tried to force them upon his men. In his effort to better himself and the race, Waters humiliated and scorned those Blacks who did not agree with his view that the race could not move forward until it emulated the whites in every respect. Uttering lines like, "Now I've got you--one less fool for the race to be ashamed...
...number of the original cast members from the Negro Ensemble Company's New York production appear in the film; especially noteworthy is the performance of Adolph Caesar, who recreates his award-winning portrayal of Master Sergeant Waters. At his best, Caesar affords us a glimpse at a man's inner struggle and torment, torn between conflicting feelings of dignity and disdain. Unfortunately, as is often the case, what worked so successfully on stage can not be transferred to celluloid, and the overall performance lacks its original dramatic power...
Crime Fighting Can Be Fun. TV's glum professionals, from Sergeant Joe Friday to Lieut. Kojak, have given way to a new breed of lighthearted crime fighters, very '80s guys and gals who read the riot act with tongue firmly in cheek. The wisecracks are often tossed back and forth between a pair of mismatched partners, but these folks can laugh in the face of death too. (A cop on ABC's new Hawaiian Heat says to his buddy, who has just been lowered by helicopter to save his life: "Nice of you to drop...