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...particularly reassuring to Peking; the Chinese had been concerned about the effects of Watergate on the relationship that is one of their safeguards against aggression by the Soviet Union. But the Ford Administration now must wait out a mini-Cultural Revolution and the uncertain fate of Premier Chou En-lai before it can tell what to negotiate next-and with whom...
...like David Halberstam of the Times, Malcolm Browne of Associated Press and Neil Sheehan of United Press International challenged the efficacy of U.S. policy with mounting impact. CBS showed Marines firing peasant huts with their Zippo lighters. Seymour Hersh, then a freelance, made Americans share the burden of My Lai. Contention over the war dragged on for a decade. The press appeared increasingly to be part of the opposition to two Administrations, a role
...after month to a barrage of vilification without buckling under. Don't you think it is time to stop baiting Richard Nixon and thank your stars (and stripes too) that along with your drug freaks and streakers, your fun killers and Central Park muggers, the braves of My Lai and the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Mafia and the hippies, your society still throws up men who, in another day and age, would have been hailed as heroes...
Freshman John Horn quickly disposed of Army's Chris Lai, 6-2, 6-1, while Hugh Hyde, in the sixth singles position, downed Dan Hubbard, 6-3, 6-3. Charlie Krusen, Sandy Wilson and Jim Levy together gave up only seven games in their one-sided matches...
...tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy, feverish little accountant, are ordinary indeed, but Kyle Shiveley, a psychopathic My Lai veteran with "thin lips" and "cold slate-colored eyes," not to mention his "horrendous apparatus," is hardly the guy next door...