- During a newspaper shortage, Charles gets newspapers from home, refuses to share them, and incurs the wrath of the whole camp. A patient and a soldier are brothers on opposite sides of the war.
- Stop the presses! Charles has just received a load of newspapers from back home and the camp, being without a newspaper for weeks, are determined to share Charles'. He is reluctant, but agrees--only after he's read them all of course. But when he finds a newspaper missing, he wages war on the camp and they, in turn, wage a war of practical jokes on him.—<Explorerds6789>
- Hawkeye tries to reunite two Korean brothers who have been fighting on opposite sides of the war. Hawkeye treats a North Korean Soldier and South Korean MPs come to guard him. One of the guards asks Hawkeye about the condition of the prisoner. Hawkeye is dismissive, but is told by the MP that the prisoner's kidneys are weak (as a small boy, he was very sick) and that the prisoner is the MP's brother. The South Korean MP retells the story of how both bros grew up in North Korea, Pyonyang. Their father saw the war coming and sent one brother to the south, so that one brother would be on the side of victory and would have a chance of survival and would be able to carry on the family name. THis is the first time the MP has seen his brother in 2 yrs. If the MP is seen talking to the prisoner, the MP Lt. might deduce that the MP is a North Korean spy. And the prisoner will be treated as a traitor by his fellow North Koreans and killed in prison camp. Hawkeye creates a medical emergency (the prisoner needs to be operated on and the MP has the right blood type to be a donor) so that both brothers can talk to each other with some privacy, away from the ears of the South Korean MP Lt.
During a newspaper shortage (all 2nd class mail addressed to South Korea was routed to South Dakota by mistake), Charles is the only one who gets to read them because he had directed them to his home in Boston, who rerouted it to him in Korea a week's worth at a time. Winchester reads them while slurping his tea and snapping his newspapers. He wont allow BJ and Hawkeye to read any newspaper till he has read it page to page. he reads only one newspaper per day. The others in camp find out about his stash (Mulcahy was walking by the swamp and saw the newspaper lying on Winchester's bunk bed) and want him to share. Charles agrees, with the proviso that he get to read each paper first (the right of first perusal). After he has read one day's paper, he will make it available to the general public. Potter agrees to the deal. When one newspaper turns up missing (the May 5th issue of the Boston Globe), Charles uses the public address system to denounce everyone in camp (he considers nobody above suspicion) and to inform them that he is withholding all the papers from them until the missing issue is returned. Winchester is boycotted in the mess tent. BJ says that Winchester just put a whole shoe store in his mouth.
So they take revenge by removing his personal possessions from the Swamp (except his newspapers) and hide it in Mulcahy's tent. His clothes are removed while he is in the shower and left a newspaper to cover himself. Winchester plans to take revenge by bringing down the mess tent, where they were all making fun of him. But Potter stops him just in time and points out that the missing issue was never delivered due to the strike and the next days newspaper duly acknowledged this, but in his rage, Winchester never read it. Potter makes Winchester to apologize to the entire camp over PA
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