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That did not come as a surprise, but the failure of Premier Chou En-lai to appear on Oct. 1 did. The night before, Chou had presided triumphantly at a banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. While 1,500 Chinese viPs and 4,500 foreign guests thunderously applauded, Chou had drunk a toast to unity "on behalf of Great Leader Chairman Mao, of the Party's Central Committee and of the Chinese government." After his 45-minute appearance, Chou, 76, apparently returned to a Peking hospital to continue treatment for what most analysts believe...
Even before the court-martial was convened at Fort Benning in 1971, fairness loomed as the major problem. The My Lai massacre had been the most widely publicized military atrocity in U.S. history. Lieut. William Calley was the only defendant convicted, though 25 of his superiors and subordinates had been implicated in varying degrees. Had it been fair to single him out? With all the publicity, could he possibly have had a fair trial? Could he have had equitable treatment from a military system eager to purify itself of My Lai...
Further, the defense should have been permitted to call such higher-ups as then Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to bolster the argument that undue command influence had affected the trial. And the defense should have been given access to a confidential House Armed Services Committee report on My Lai. Judge Elliott cited Watergate and ruled that "the Supreme Court in deciding the Nixon [tapes] case also decided the Calley case...
Nonetheless, Chou En-lai and the moderates may have got the best of the bargain. Unlike Chiang Ching, who is a member of the Politburo but holds no office in the government, Wang Hung-wen has no independent power base. Some experts believe that his elevation was a token; the leftists got represen tation at the apex of the party but little increase in real power...
...Confucius campaign was launched with great fanfare early this year, it has given rise to a number of puzzling events. First "revisionist" (i.e., vaguely anti-Maoist) operas were vigorously attacked, and members of the Politburo were criticized in wall posters. For several months it seemed that Premier Chou En-lai himself was under pressure from leftist factions in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Many observers were predicting that the campaign heralded some major new development-perhaps on the scale of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. In recent weeks, however, the mysterious program has been grinding...