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              EXT. BAR, LAE, NEW GUINEA - DAY

              CLOSE on a mud-streaked AIRFIELD in mist and driving RAIN.
              A Lockheed ELECTRA sits. Sleek, twin-engine, state-of-the-
              art, its metallic surface battered by the monsoon. Waiting.
              PULL BACK to see...

              ...our VIEW down onto the landing strip is from an open-
              sided, thatched roof BAR high above the airfield. And