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Nature abhors its vacuums, and man cannot abide free-floating guilt. But scapegoats are getting harder to find these days (vide Richard Nixon and his Watergate problems). After My Lai, the U.S. Army thought they had a pretty good sacrificial offering in Lieut. William Calley-until corrosion began eating its way up the chain of command. The Army's containment plan was not helped by Journalist John Sack, who moved in with Calley for one of those total immersions that have become the baptismal rites of the New Journalism...
...start of his week-long visit to China. More than 4,000 brightly dressed schoolgirls were at the airport last week to cheer and wave at the arriving 15-man French delegation. Seven of China's new 25-member Politburo were also on hand, including Premier Chou En-lai and the newly risen star Wang Hung-wen (TIME, Sept. 17). Pompidou himself matched the warmth of his welcome. Beginning his two-hour meeting with Mao Tse-tung−twice as long as Nixon's talk with the venerable Party Chairman−Pompidou declared: "It is a great honor...
...news agency's terse communiques about the unusually brief Congress indicated that Mao, now almost 80, remains the unchallenged leader of the party. His appearance at the Congress, according to the news agency, triggered "prolonged and hearty applause." Premier Chou En-lai continues as second to Mao. At the Congress, Chou presented the all-important political report; he was also elected one of the party's five vice chairmen and, significantly, was listed first. The Congress endorsed Chou's foreign policy, including improved relations with the U.S., but it also warned against the "hegemonism...
...only American manufacturer trying to switch TV trade channels between the U.S. and the Far East. While Taiwan factories make more than half of all the black-and-white TV sets sold in the U.S., many under Japanese brand names, RCA Corp. earlier this year signed up the Lai Fu Trading Co. to sell RCA color sets in Taiwan...
...since the My Lai atrocities came to light in 1969 had a tiny village caused such an uproar. Father Adrian Hastings, a British Catholic priest, alleged that Portuguese government troops had gone on a murderous rampage in the Portuguese Mozambique village of Wiriyamu last Dec. 16. The priest, quoting reports from Spanish missionary priests, claimed that Portuguese soldiers killed some 400 villagers suspected of sympathizing with Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front...