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...does not matter whether Lieut. Calley was guilty or not. When we send our boys to fight and die for us, we should stand behind them come hell or high water. If someone must be tried for a My Lai, then it should be the entire American public and our Government, not the poor devils who thought enough of their country to fight...
...Chou En-lai is the guiding influence behind China's re-entry into the world scene. Unlike most other Chinese Communist leaders, Chou is sophisticated and widely traveled. He comes from a family of feudal gentry, was raised in Shanghai, had studied in Tokyo, Kyoto, Tientsin and Paris, and speaks French, fair English and some German. As Premier (since 1949) and Foreign Minister (from 1949 to 1958), he visited at least 29 different countries and maintained a constant dialogue with high-level foreign visitors to Peking. With a personality far more cosmopolitan than Mao's, Chou...
Fischbeck agrees with the group's general view that Chou En-lai was "smooth, very handsome and quite witty." Speaking through an interpreter, Chou told the Americans at one point: "Now criticize our country." But no one would. Then Chou said: "Well, I can criticize. Those photographers over there wouldn't even let me through. I had to get somebody to push them out of the way." Everyone laughed...
...could be: she correctly named Patton for best picture, best direction (Franklin J. Schaffner), best actor (George C. Scott), and best original screenplay (Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund North); Glenda Jackson (Women in Love) for best actress; John Mills (Ryan's Daughter) for best supporting actor; Francis Lai (Love Story) for best musical score. It was too much to expect that she would also have picked the Oscar ceremony's best decolletage, which clearly and defiantly belonged to Sally Kellerman (M *A* S*-H). The major surprise was the unwanted Oscar that went to Scott, whose well-publicized...
Font's request was based on the December testimony before the Vietnam Veterans Commission of Inquiry of 40 Vietnam veterans that My Lai and other atrocities against Vietnamese civilians grew directly out of top-level U. S. military policy...