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One Arab leader who reacted strongly to the Khartoum killings was King Hussein of Jordan. Among the killers' key demands during their 60-hour occupation of the Saudi embassy was the release of 17 other Palestinian guerrillas who had been arrested in Jordan last month for plotting to overthrow...
MY last week in Shanghai in May of 1949 was spent watching the city go through its final agonies before Mao's forces swept in. A public execution of six black-marketeers, scapegoats of the collapsing economy, was held at the railroad station. To cover it, I had to...
What has happened over the last week holds out little prospect that a lasting peace is coming rapidly to Indochina. Accords in Laos and Vietnam have stopped neither air attacks in Laos nor ground fighting in South Vietnam. Violations of some protocols of the January agreement and the meaningless execution...
> When Samuel Tito Williams was arrested in 1947 for the bludgeon murder of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl, eleven of the arresting detectives were given $50 bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he...
There is a rather disreputable ghost haunting the U.S. departure from Viet Nam-Lieut. William Calley Jr. Last week the Army Court of Military Review upheld his conviction for the My Lai massacre, and approved his sentence of 20 years at hard labor for ordering "subordinates to participate in the...