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2A The Independent Record, Helena, Friday, April 30, 1982 I peopIe ONUS PAGE THE Vietnam legacy lives on in deaths Concert tour has urtrior motive The Rolling Stones will make a nine-nation European tour that will include performances in Spain in June and July, and Mick Jagger isn't mincing words about why. That's when the World Cup finals will be held, and the rock group's lead singer has soccer or football as the British refer to it on his mind. "We will be in Spain during the World Cup because we must see some football," Jagger said in launching the tour at a news conference in London on Wednesday. Britain has three representatives England, Scotland and Northern Ireland in the World Cup finals. The tour will begin in Rotterdam on June 4, after which the group will play concerts in Italy, Sweden, France, West Germany, Austria, England, Ireland and Spain.

Treat the shirt with respect Comedian Rodney Danger! ield's trademark white shirt and red tie soon will hang in a respectable place alongside Jimmy Durante's hat and Archie Bunker's armchair at the National Museum of American History. The comic who claims he "don't eet 1 fT 111 I ml U'vJ VC- jfm no respect" donated the shirt and tie Wednesday to the Smithsonian stitution's collection of memorabilia frAiri nrnminont American pntpr- WOBURN, Mass. (AP) Charles McMahon got up from the sofa in his living room and walked into the kitchen to hide his tears. Vietnam made them flow again. Seven years ago today, McMahon's son, Charlie, was one of the last Americans killed in Vietnam.

He was struck down at random in a war and a country where no one wanted to be the last to die. It was, his father said, just bad luck, a "bummer" riding on the imprecision of a North Vietnamese rocket that could have landed anywhere. "It could have been the boy "next door, the boy down the street, it could have been any of them," says his mother, Edna McMahon. 1 "It just happened that our boy was there, that's all," says McMahon. At noon the next day, April 30, 1975, the guns fell silent across Vietnam.

The American evacuation had ended. Saigon had fallen to the North Vietnamese. It marked the end of 30 years of American involvement at a cost of 57,661 dead, more than 300,000 wounded and $150 billion. Today, McMahon is 51 years old. His wife is 52.

He still works at a gelatin processing plant, the same job he has held for more than 30 years. Mrs. McMahon has been driving a school bus for 19 years. Their son was 21 when he was killed along with another Marine, Darwin Judge, 19, of Mars'ualltown, Iowa, in a rocket bombardment of Tan Son Nhut airport during the final evacuation of Americans. McMahon and Judge were embassy guards who had only recently arrived in Vietnam and were assigned to the U.S.

defense attache's compound at Tan Son Nhut. They were believed to be the last two Americans killed on Vietnamese soil. Two other Marines were killed the following day when their helicopter plunged into the South China Sea during the evacuation. Neither the McMahons nor Judge's parents, Henry and Ida Judge, are bitter, even though they suffered the agony of having to wait nearly a year before the bodies of their sons were returned home for burial. They say their sons wanted to be Marines and enlisted.

"Maybe it would have been different if he had been drafted and sent over there without really wanting to go," says Mrs. McMahon. "What makes you feel bitter," says McMahon, "is the ones who went to Canada." The McMahon family endured triple tragedy. Three months after Charlie's death, their youngest son, Scott, also a Marine, was in an auto accident in California that left him a paraplegic. In October of that year, Mrs.

McMahon's father died, shielded because of his illness from the news that Charlie had been killed. Scott, now 25, lives in California and has been in and r. tainers. "This is a big thing. I only got two shirts, you know," quipped Danger-field, who wore an open-collared green shirt with a black suit for the laugh-filled presentation ceremony at the museum in Washington, D.C.

Handing his stage clothing on a wire hanger to museum curator Carl Rodney Danger field: shirt off his back. Scheele, he said: "I have a feeling you're going to use this shirt to clean Lindbergh's plane." Scheele assured Dangerfield his familiar stage props would hold an honorable place in the Smithsonian. Henry and Ida Judge, Marshalltown, Iowa, with photo of their late son, Darwin. "The operator wanted to know if we'd accept a collect call from Darwin. And I said, 'Well, Darwin was Then all of a sudden I heard this horrible voice that said, 'Hello, Mom, I love And that was all there was to it.

"It was a horrible experience to go through. I called the Marines right away and they said it was probably a crank call. My nerves were pretty well shot for a long time." McMahon says "things get smoother and smoother al! the time, but when people talk about it, it does upset me. You get used to it after a while, but when everything starts flooding back at once, it's hard." Charlie McMahon was home on leave, here in Woburn, a 30-minute drive from Boston, less than two weeks before he was killed. His' father will show you the photos of him then.

The pictures hang in a frame on the wall. He rests now in the soldiers' lot at Woodbrook Cemetery opposite his high school. "He told me he'd be home," recalls Mrs. McMahon. "When he left, he said, 'I'll be back." Edna and Charles McMahon, Woburn, with album and effects of their late son, John Jr.

out of the hospital. Another son, Michael, 26, and a married daughter, Susan, 31, live in Woburn. What would things be like today if Charlie were alive? "Sometimes you wonder," says McMahon. "You could project what they would be, but you'll never know, if you know what I mean." "I just wonder," says Mrs. McMahon, "what he'd be doing now, if he'd be married and have any children, and if he would still be living in Woburn.

Things like that. Whether he would have stayed in the Marine Corps, because he did love it." There have been many sad moments, too, for the Judges in Iowa. But her son, says Mrs. Judge, was doing what he wanted. "So you have to be very proud of him," she said.

Time has helped ease the pain for both families. "It's like that life has to go on," says Mrs. Judge. "Some days are good, some days are bad. Last June we had a terrible phone call that started my nerves and stuff all up again.

Playboy founder's daughter is no dumb bunny N.Y. Times News Service 1 1 Bumnu. jr tl Rea Gibson and husband Robert Astronaut is pregnant SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Rhea Seddon Gibson the first member of the U.S. astronaut corps to become pregnant says she will take maternity leave to have her first child late this summer. Mrs.

Gibson, 34, declined Thursday to reveal the exact date her child is due. She and her husband, Robert, who also is an astronaut, were married in May 1981 in her hometown of Murfreesboro, Tenn. The Gibsons, one of two married couples in the corps, joined the space agency in January 1978. Gibson, 35, is a Navy lieutenant commander from Lakewood, Calif. He is expected to pilot a future space shuttle mission and Mrs.

Gibson, a physician, hopes to serve as a mission specialist. Innocent plea to tax charge David Ruffin, former lead singer for the Temptations rhythm and blues group, has pleaded innocent to charges he failed to file federal income tax returns. Daniels will receive about $470,000 in severance pay, according to a proxy statement, and will no longer be affiliated with the company. Miss Hefner graduated from Brandeis University in 1974 summa cum laude and was selected for the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She joined Playboy Enterprises seven years ago, and has been corporate vice president since 1978.

She will share presidential responsibilities with the executive vice president, Marvin L. Huston. The company has abolished the title of chief operating officer. As Noble sees it, Miss Hefner "will be the top dog for new products and company policy," while Huston "will determine if the policies are economically feasible." Miss Hefner said that her first task would be to "complete the restructuring of Playboy from a broadly based corporation to a clearly focused communications company." "In the next few months," she continued, "I'll continue to cut administrative expenses, work on divesting our book publishing and Atlantic City operations, and then start concentrating on revenues and growth." CHICAGO Playboy Enterprises, the entertainment and communications company, announced Wednesday that Christie Hefner, a vice president of the company, had been promoted to president. She replaces Derick J.

Daniels, who has resigned, the company said. Miss Hefner also said Wednesday that Playboy would divest itself of its casino and book publishing divisions. Miss Hefner is the daughter of Hugh Hefner, who founded the company and holds 70 percent of the stock. Analysts described the move as an attempt by Hefner to reassert control over the company, which has been going through a transitional period. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission said April 7 in a split decision that it would award a casino license to Playboy only if Hefner separated himself from the company.

The move will result in an increased role for Hefner in the company, according to Susan Tash, a spokesman for Playboy. "Hugh Hefner has taken a lot of criticism in the past for not being more closely involved, but now that will change," she said. "Hefner wants to exert more personal control," said J. Kendrick Noble, media analyst at Paine, Webber, Mitchell Hutchins Inc. "But it's not sheer nepojism: Christie has achieved an reputation amongst the staff as being very capable and competent." Daniels, who joined Playboy Enterprises in 1976, said that the announcement had been expected.

"I'm neither Christie Hefner has been named president of Playboy Enterprises founded by her father, Hugh, right surprised, unhappy or angry," he said. "From the beginning, it was agreed and understood what my role would be to train Christie for this day and turn the company ready, and so am I. I'm open and ready for any new challenges." Ruffin was arraigned Wednesday in 1 Detroit before federal Magistrate! i i Lynn Hooe Jr. He was indicted April 13 by a federal grand jury on charges he failed to report more than $311,000 in income between 1975-77. Ruffin, 41, was released on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond.

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