Dangerous Assignment: Chromite Mine Disaster (Balkans)

Wheaties presents Dangerous Assignment. On stage tonight from Hollywood, Dangerous Assignment, another in the Wheaties big parade of exciting half-hour presentations. Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevi as Steve Mitchell. Danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce.

They all spell the same thing, though, trouble. When I walk into the commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to end up with me trying my best to blast myself right out of existence.

Good morning, Commissioner. Good morning, Steve. What kind of a deal are you sending me on this time, Commissioner? Steve, ever hear of chromite? Sure, that's the mineral they use in manufacturers' steel, isn't it? Yes, and right now we need all the chromite we can get. Take a look at this map, Steve.

See the small country in the Balkan area? Yep. There's a large chromite mine there near a small village of Dravenor up in the mountains and the border right beside this pass into the next country.

These two countries incidentally are pretty unfriendly right now. Oh great, one of those deals, eh? Yes, but the point is we've made an agreement with this small country permitting us to operate that mine. We get chromite and our money helps put them back on their feet.

Sounds like a cozy little arrangement. It was until things started happening recently. Oh, what kind of things? In the last week two mine workers have been found hanging at the end of a chain. Oh, sounds like somebody doesn't want us to operate that mine, Commissioner.

Steve, there's more to this story than I've told you, but I want you to hear it firsthand. Who from? A man named Gettinik. He's the mine foreman, and he's waiting for you in the city of Lano.