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...Kornfeind, the CCSC's treasures, says even though group treasurers and presidents elect the 12 members of the Union of Student Organizations (USO), the committee that distributes student group funds, the outcome has not been consistently successful...
...watch, you'll hear someone complaining about being there. Last week two of the chief whiners, Major Frank Burns (LARRY LINVILLE, left) and Major Charles Emerson Winchester (DAVID OGDEN STIERS, right), along with series creator LARRY GELBART (middle), went back willingly. They were invited to Korea by the USO to commemorate the deactivation of the last M*A*S*H base in Korea, the 43rd Surgical Hospital, which also happens to be the one on which the book, the movie and the TV show were based. "It was very, very un-Hollywood," says Gelbart. "The battalion band played the theme...
...film traces the intertwining of an act from the first meeting of singer- funny girl Dixie Leonard (Midler) and song-and-dance man Eddie Sparks (James Caan) at a USO show in wartime England to the final tribute to them as national treasures. That treasurability derives from a willingness to perform for U.S. troops wherever and whenever they are embattled, and from the public's belief that despite the couple's bickering, they really love each other...
...hard to cuddle up to all that brass. But also because he's tricky goods, with one of those smeary little mustaches that signal untrustworthiness and the kind of stage manner from which unexamined overuse has drained both spontaneity and authenticity. Even Eddie's devotion to the USO circuit is suspect. His piety is a bit too hair-trigger, and there's always a self- serving glint in his eye when he volunteers the duo for hazardous duty. It's a way for an unlovable man to get love...
...Friday, it finally dawned even on the White House that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to do much more -- and quickly. From Newport Beach, Calif., en route to Los Angeles to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the USO, Bush ordered American planes to air-drop food, blankets, clothing and other relief supplies to refugees suffering in the border mountains. He promised up to $10 million in emergency aid to the refugees. And he called for a major international effort to keep the Kurds from starving and dying while someone figures out what to do with them...