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Apprenticeship served, Ho commenced his indefatigable career as "traveling salesman of revolution." In 1925 he was in Canton, setting up the Association of Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth. Three years later, wearing the robes of a Buddhist monk, he turned up in Bangkok, organizing cells in the pagodas. Everywhere he went, he left behind a network of indoctrination schools and newspapers...
...green-roofed buildings were set ablaze, and conservatives later claimed that 47 of their number had been "barbarously killed." At one point, trapped for three days in the physics building, they dashed off a telegram to Mao detailing the carnage and pleading for his help. Elsewhere in Canton, the two rival factions staged the Cultural Revolution version of "chicken": lining up some 20 military vans in two rows, they roared toward one another and collided head-on in a tangled heap of metal. Those who survived shot their way out of the wreckage...
...party leadership seemed genuinely aghast at the violence. Shanghai's daily Wen Hui Pao recently conceded that some of the ruling provincial and municipal revolutionary committees are "not in a state" to function effectively. Reason: "The split between the right and the left." Radio Canton complained that "the class enemy" was sabotaging efforts to control floods caused by the rising Pearl. Mao himself, however, seems to be egging on the feuds, after giving orders only last March for "unified rule." His latest thoughts from Peking carry shrill epithets about the danger of "rightist deviation" and the necessity of "leftist...
...Supreme Court rarely rebukes individual attorneys. But last year its unanimous, 9-to-0 reversal of the 1956 murder conviction of Cabdriver Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr. carried a blunt reprimand. Miller had been accused of the brutal rape-murder of an eight-year-old girl near Canton, Ill., and the high court was convinced that he did not get a fair trial. It charged Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey and his special assistant, Roger Hayes, with deliberately misrepresenting evidence by repeatedly waving a "bloodstained" pair of men's shorts before the jury. "In the context of the revolting crime...
Confession Recanted. Misapprehended or not, the major facts of the case remain undisputed. Little Janice May was found bloodied and fatally beaten along the railroad tracks outside of Canton in November 1955. Miller was arrested two days later, kept incommunicado for 52 hours and "persuaded" to confess after police told him that one of his pubic hairs was found in the victim's vagina. Miller later recanted the confession, and the hair, which was not his, was never introduced as evidence...