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...members of the U.S. Ping Pong team. Because of their friendly reception in Red China, we will hopefully be able to ease the tensions of more than two decades. Thanks is also due President Nixon, who acted swiftly to thaw relations with Red China. Premier Chou En-lai has stated that he would like to visit the U.S. Let's hope that if he does come, he will receive the same friendly greeting that the Ping Pong team received...
...Part of the outcry and the anguish over William Galley's conviction for multiple murders at My Lai came from the sense of many Americans that the young lieutenant was only a scapegoat. Punish sergeants, lieutenants, perhaps captains, but let the big brass alone. The Nixon Administration and the U.S. Army are troubled and embarrassed by that sentiment. Partly as a result, there is one big figure who is unlikely to get away without a murder charge...
...fought at all, new ways must be devised to protect the innocent. The subject has not attracted noticeable attention in any of the Communist countries that sponsor terrorism (see page 28), but it is causing considerable concern in a U.S. shaken by the disclosures of My Lai and the general effect of the war on the Vietnamese populace. As a first step, Senator Kennedy recommended last week that the President create a military-practices review board that would advise the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Said Kennedy: "There continues to be a vast gap between the official policy of our Government...
Miss Universe? Meantime the delicate business of diplomatic signaling continued. Secretary of State William Rogers took pains to underscore the Administration's official attitude to Premier Chou En-lai's comment that a "new page" had been opened in Sino-American relations. Said Rogers: "We would hope that it becomes a new chapter." President Nixon pointedly called in Team Leader Steenhoven to congratulate him on his role in the affair. Steenhoven himself waited until he was home in Detroit to announce the next step, an American tour "in the near future" by a Chinese table tennis team...
...Michener's researchers: "Russia took over my whole country without killing one student. Your soldiers couldn't take over a Plot of grass." It is not enough for Michener to describe the shooting as "an accident, deplorable and tragic." Triggers were not pulled accidentally, either at My Lai or at Kent State...