Dangerous Assignment: A Country's Democracy Threatened (South America)

Dangerous assignment starring Brian Don LaViere, Steve Mitchell. Yeah, 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.

But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to make a flower hater out of me. A sunflower almost has me pushing up daisies. Morning, Commissioner. Ruth said you had an assignment for me.

I do, Steve. You're playing Lisa South America in one hour. South America, pretty hot down there this time of year, isn't it? isn't it? Not as hot as it'll be after you get down there.

Well, send me off to get shot at on a note of gaiety, I always say. Okay, what's the deal? Here's the deal. Steve, this country right here on the map. Yeah? Yeah, I might have known.

What do you mean? I read the newspapers, too, you know? Then you know the background of the deal. Pretty much that particular country's on the fence politically. There's an election coming up next week. The party in power is democratic and friendly to us.

The minority party is fascist and not friendly to us. Right, last night, Burego, head of the minority party, was murdered. What? What's worse, the man in the suspected murdering Burego is an American named Hartley.

Oh fine, has he been arrested? No, he's in hiding somewhere in that country. It's a mess, Steve. Hartley did, Calburego. The resulting tension in anti-U.S. propaganda will be enough to switch the election over into the hands of a hostile minority.

Yeah, look, you say if Hartley killed Burego, I kind of get the idea that you think the whole deal might be a frame, do you? I don't think anything Steve. I'm sending you down there to do my thinking for me.