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Retaliation with biological weapons would be risky at best. It would be difficult to ensure that diseases spread among enemy troops would not infect friendly nations. In fact, there could be no guarantee that a retaliatory American germ attack would not cause a pandemic that eventually would infect the U.S. Added to these dangers are the continuing problems of safely developing, storing and transporting the germs...
Amalric's entire argument is in line with the very Russian attitude that the best man is the one who stands and fights -or suffers. Two of his books, both critical of Soviet policy-Involuntary Journey to Siberia and Can the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-will be published in the West next year, but without the approval of official Soviet organizations. As a result, Amalric has been denied his hard-currency royalties. That, in turn, prompted him last week to send a second open letter to six Western newspapers: "Stalin would have executed me for the fact that...
Born in Hupeh province to a poor peasant family, Li received at best a patchwork education and in his teens was apprenticed to a carpenter. His chairs and tables regularly collapsed, however, and he was fired. By his early 20s, Li had joined the party and soon won a reputation for unquestioning loyalty to Mao Tse-tung and for his talent at organizing effective guerrilla bands. After the civil war ended in 1949, Li rose steadily in the party's central China hierarchy. In 1954, he was summoned to Peking as Minister of Finance...
Curiously, some newspapers barely noted the alleged massacre or ignored it completely. Editorial page comment was even slower to develop. The best reporting continued from Hersh. He interviewed three eyewitnesses for a second D.N.S. story on Nov. 20, and he turned up Paul Meadlo for another numbing account last week. D.N.S. passed Meadlo on to CBS for a television interview with Mike Wallace, for which D.N.S. received $10,000 and Meadlo got traveling expenses. For yet another story this week, again sold by D.N.S., Hersh has talked to a returned soldier who describes the killing of a Vietnamese woman...
...resembles an isle of joy. First the Jets, then the Mets, and now the New York Knickerbockers. Once the softest touch in the National Basketball Association, the Knicks have turned the beginning of the 1969-70 season into a romp; they have sprinted to a 23-2 record -the best start in league history-and have surpassed the N.B.A. consecutive-win record of 17. Says Captain and Center Willis Reed: "The fans here used to come to the Garden to watch Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell do their stuff. Now they come to watch...