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...collaboration with the distributor, Cinema of the Third World-has chosen to observe only an "intermission" between Parts II and III and to charge audiences twice for seeing the whole film. Splitting the experience over at least two days and including the slack and unimaginative "Interviews with My Lai Veterans" on the same bill cannot help but dilute the force of La Hora de los Hornos. Hopefully, many will voice their criticisms at the theatre and actively make sure that the level of discussion takes place that Solanas intended. Of course the Welles is trapped in the exigencies...
...message to President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan of Pakistan, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai said, "Should the Indian expansionists dare to launch aggression against Pakistan, the Chinese government and people will as always offer support to safeguard the state's integrity and national independence...
...murderous impulses. One psychologist who tested him described him as "a rather passive young man harboring a deep-seated sense of inadequacy, insecurity and inferiority." Surmised one of his examiners: "Undoubtedly his ability to carry out the orders [he claimed] he received in the briefing the night before [My Lai] would be interpreted by him not only as a measure of his competence as an officer but of his basic efficacy as a mature male...
...curious, ill-defined idealism is also a strength, for he professes to believe that if the lesson of My Lai can be universally learned, he will, in part, be exonerated. "I'm sorry anybody had to die there," he says of My Lai, "sorry I ever had to kill a soldier in Viet Nam. In My Lai, I made one of a thousand mistakes I made in Viet Nam. I was just as wrong going to Viet Nam as to My Lai. But I'll be very proud to have been in the U.S. Army and fought at My Lai...
Situated way up in the green, thickly jungled highlands 30 miles west of Chu Lai, Fire Base Mary Ann had long been a secure oasis for its defenders, the 1st Battalion of the Americal Division's 46th Regiment. Last week, after the base was ravaged by a handful of enemy sappers, TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen visited the blackened bunkers and cabled this account of the savage night...