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...followed carried a familiar byline: Seymour Hersh. At 37, Hersh ranks as an almost unrivaled master of the governmental exposé. Woodward and Bernstein have Watergate, but Hersh's revelations over the past six years read like a historic road map to a generation: the massacre at My Lai, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's wiretapping of his aides (Kissinger has called him "my nemesis"), Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia, the Pentagon's pilfering of Kissinger's documents, the CIA's involvement in Chilean President Allende's downfall...
...little of everything is dropped in along the way, from Indian rights to mysticism (in a shabby series of visions ripped off Carlos Castaneda) to a My Lai-style slaughter in which, of course, Billy Jack refused to participate. Shoddily as they are staged, Billy Jack's fights are the only portions of the film with the slightest life at all. These episodes prove it is a great deal easier to feel peaceful and full of good will when someone else is busting heads and scrambling brains...
When the Communists took over in 1949, there were roughly 4 million Roman Catholics and Protestant Christians in China, 13,000 missionaries, and a widespread Christian influence in schools and universities. In a 1950 speech, Premier Chou En-lai promised religious freedom, and the country's 1954 constitution guaranteed it. Faith, nevertheless, soon became heavily politicized. Chinese Christians were cut off from foreign-mission boards and, in the case of Catholics, from Rome...
...shares Mr. Callaway's desire to put My Lai behind us. The point is, surely, that it must never be put behind...
...case is a quarter-century old. Angered, Smith College Historian Allen Weinstein will now press his claim in court under the act's provision for judicial review. He may not have much luck. Judges have upheld similar bureaucratic refusals when a Congressman sought reports on the My Lai massacre investigation and a Warren Commission critic asked to see tests of the "single bullet" that killed John Kennedy and wounded John Connally...