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...Lai massacre of 1968 reverberated profoundly throughout the U.S. The trial and conviction of Lieut. William Calley Jr. divided the land as severely as any event of the Viet Nam War. Last week, more than three years after My Lai, the final court-martial arising from the killings came quietly to a close. After 62 days of trial and deliberation, a military jury took less than four hours to find Colonel Oran K. Henderson not guilty of covering up the tragedy...
...move into an election year as a visibly active President. The other audience is the U.S.'s allies; the summits enable Nixon to assuage fears that he may make deals over the heads of the U.S.'s friends in Europe and Asia when he meets Chou En-lai in February and Leonid Brezhnev in May. "We are not going to Peking and Moscow as a broker for our allies," says White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, "but we will have their views in mind as we formulate our positions." A State Department official points out that the meetings...
...would like to nominate Chou En-lai for Man of the Year. He has led the Chinese people out of isolationism and into their rightful place as one of the great powers. He seems to have taken up conciliation with the West, especially...
Since he is now a civilian, Medina is no longer answerable to the Army for perjury. By admitting that he had lied to cover up atrocities committed by the men under his command, he has added dishonor to the tragedy of My Lai...
...Chinese criticism sounded particularly harsh in view of reports that India and China are in fact moving toward more cordial relations. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi wrote Chou En-lai to congratulate him on China's entering the U.N., and Chou sent a warm reply: "May the friendship between the peoples of China and India grow and develop daily." It was the first such high-level correspondence since the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict, when the two nations broke off commercial ties and reduced their diplomatic relations to the charge-d'affaires level. Last week there were reports...