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China's Premier Chou En-lai was crucial to the beginnings of the detente that is leading more than one-fifth of the earth's population out of its dangerous isolation. So was Russia's Leonid Brezhnev; with the Soviets, the Americans signed 15 far-reaching bilateral agreements for trade and cooperation in space, technology and other fields. The Man of the Year in 1970, West Germany's Willy Brandt, continued pursuing his Ostpolitik with the signing of a treaty normalizing relations between the two Germanys, and won a surprisingly generous mandate at the polls from his people...
...Shyang Lai Kung found the situation particularly handicapping. "With my style. I play defense a lot more than attack. Therefore, I stand further behind the table. With this place the lighting was so poor that I could hardly see the ball. It's no place for a competition...
Robbie Farkas, Shyang Lai Kung, and Rick Climan are fourth, fifth, and sixth-ranked players, respectively, and will compete on the B team...
...does not always work; all the F-111s and "people-sniffers" and laser-guided bombs and helicopters could not ultimately, not really, enforce the American will. Of more psychic importance, the war may have forever soured the almost subconscious, idealized conviction that Americans are somehow morally superior beings. My Lai, the massive bombing campaign, the image of a napalmed child?such things have corroded the American selfesteem. But how deeply...
Killing was the reality for which the G.I. invented the largest number of euphemisms: zapping, fragging, offing, greasing, waxing, hosing down a village (or using a Zippo Squad to set it afire). When Lieut. William Galley testified that he had been ordered to attack My Lai, he did not say that he had been told to kill but to "waste" everyone in sight...