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Spokesman for Medical Aid for Indochina announced their intention yesterday to use their share of the proceeds toward the rebuilding of Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi. The Pentagon has now confirmed the possibility that American bombs caused the destruction of that hospital...
Children searched among the debris looking for parents, parents for children. At the Bach Mai hospital, patients were trundled piggyback from the smoldering rubble as the director ran frantically from one victim to another. The Bach Thai hospital for tuberculous patients was razed. The railroad station had been destroyed, the Gia Lam airport runways pocked. Stacks of coffins lay at street corners. Here and there on a wall, someone scrawled, "Nixon, you will pay this blood debt" and "We will avenge our compatriots massacred by the Americans...
...those targets lay smack in the middle of the most populous metropolitan and suburban areas in the North. The Hanoi thermal power plant, for instance, was only 1,000 yds. from the very center of the city. A main petroleum storage area was only 200 yds. from the Bach Mai hospital. The town of Thai Nguyen lay right next to one of the key power plants...
...Whispers that are among the most memorable he has ever filmed: an eager, unrestrained display of sudden mutual affection between Ka rin and Maria, a desperate fantasy of the sisters touching and talking to each other as the camera pans back and forth and no words are heard, only Bach's music; Agnes, dead, rising from her bed and blindly grasping and holding a hysterical Maria...
...many Angel LPs attest (notably the Bach Flute Sonatas with Harpsichordist George Malcolm), Shaffer is thoroughly at home in the recording studio. "Making a recording is like taking your stage makeup off," she says. "For example, the same tempi that work well before an audience tend to sound too slow coming from a disk. The same is true of dynamics. You can't be as loud, and you can't be as soft." Wherever she is playing, Shaffer tries to preserve the feeling that she is singing instead of merely blowing. That helps explain why she watches...