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...difficult thing to contemplate the likelihood that one spent five years be ing tortured for nothing. As they cluster together around the Marriott's eight bars and omelet-shaped pool, the P.O.W.s seem compelled to approve of the life they found at home. Nearly all of them are confused, embarrassed or annoyed by their strange hero status. Says John McCain: "It doesn't take a helluva lot of talent to get shot down." Virginia Guttersen ex plains: "To a military man, the P.O.W. is a loser, the guy who didn't complete his mission. The Government made...
Peking recalled its ambassador to Hanoi, then summarily closed three Vietnamese consulates in southern China. Earlier this month China's Vice Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, declared a halt to aid to Viet Nam. "China's cash grants to Viet Nam already amount to $10 billion," he told a group of journalists from Thailand. "The only thing wrong is that we have given Viet Nam too much," he added, referring to the vast amounts of military aid given Hanoi during the war, including 80% of the Viet Cong's weapons...
With production up over 600 pianos a year, Bösendorfer now plans to shed its aristocratic reserve and compete with Steinway for the U.S. concert business. It will make Bösendorfers available across the country for performances by travel ing artists. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has al ready gone over. But the odds are still with the Steinway: 95% of American concert pianists endorse it. Too bad Liszt is not around to judge the competition...
...corner of Washington seemed untouched by the new/old winds ablow-ing. Fred Emery, over at the Federal Register, where new Government proposals are catalogued and printed each day, looked up at his staff at the close of work on May 18. The alltime record had just been broken-512 documents had been recorded in eight hours, eclipsing the old record of 386. "Hey," he said, "this Government is supposed to be going the other way." Yeah...
...most prominent victims of Teng's finesses have been the ultraradical leaders known as the Gang of Four, headed by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing. But now there are signs that Teng's purge is being extended to next echelon radicals. For the past two weeks, Peking's walls have been plastered with posters denouncing the so-called Mini-Gang of Four, consisting of Peking's mayor Wu Teh; General Ch'en Hsi-lien, the regional commander of the capital military district; Saifudin, former chief of the Sinkiang-Uigher Autonomous Region...