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In the October 26, 1979 assassination of South Korea's President Park Chung Hee, the conspirators use the firepower from stolen M-16's. Korean CIA Head Lieutenant General Kim Jae Kyu, who guns down Park, has planned the assassination since before the 1972 yushin constitution made Park dictator for life. In 1971, at Osan Air Base, South Korea, a North Korean cell has coerced a ring of G.I.'s into a burglary of fifteen Air Force M-16's. Air Force Security Police Sergeant C. B. Coverdale sees that if North Korean infiltrators use them in an attempt on President Park, the M-16's will be construed as a signal from the U.S. to attack a military dictator it disfavors. Toward retrieving the M-16's, he gets help from Barbara Stone, an attorney-reporter for the Overseas Weekly. Issues of racial tension and South Korea's jurisdiction over the G.I. burglars are heightened by the North Korean cell's continuing power over the G.I.'s. In the 1979-1980 time frame, Stone returns to Korea to cover General Kim's court martial--and to fathom the aftermath if Air Force M-16's not recovered in 1972 were used in the assassination.

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