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...edit it either. The lead article, a muddled dissection of CIA, FBI and CBS involvement in an abortive 1967 invasion of Haiti (currently under secret investigation by a House committee), raises more questions than it answers. More persuasively, a Viet Nam veteran recounts several killings that grimly resemble My Lai. Brutality of another kind is the subject of a strong article on the "Woodstock West" folk concert held last December at Altamont race track in California. Why, Scanlan's wonders, was there not more attention paid to the fact that four people died, 700 were treated for bad acid...
...planned the airline reorganization that nationalized Air-India, the country's international carrier. Even more important than his ministerial work is his role, conferred by Gandhi 23 years ago, as the Congress Party's harijan leader. It provides him with a powerful fulcrum. When Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri died in 1966, Ram swung his bloc of more than 50 harijan parliamentary votes behind Indira Gandhi, assuring her election as Prime Minister over a conservative Syndicate faction rival. The Syndicate's bosses have never forgiven him. Recently, they tried to break him with charges of tax fraud...
...cannot buy your tentative explanations of the opinion expressed ("incidents such as this are bound to happen in a war") by 65% of those interviewed in the Harris poll re My Lai [Jan. 12]. If this is a patriotic reflex, as you suggest, then it is the unthinking sort of patriotism displayed by many Germans under Hitler in World War II. Nor can it be explained away by a certain "battle wisdom" of the American people. I venture that no more than 1 out of 10 Americans is a combat veteran. This group is, more likely, that Great Silent Majority...
...lessons in foreign relations came in Canberra, after a brief rest stop in Bali. In Australia, Agnew encountered a growing national awareness, accompanied by an unwillingness to continue regarding the U.S. as an ideal ally. There is still a strong feeling of friendship, but the recent massacre at My Lai has reinforced local antiwar activists who want withdrawal of the 8,000 Aussie troops now stationed in Viet Nam. As one radio commentator put it: "We are still sacrificing 20-year-olds as an insurance premium to the American alliance...
...weekly radio spots and appears on the Walter Cronkite nightly news or Face the Nation when the CBS assignment desk is looking for a heavy interview. It was Wallace who did CBS's skilled, chilling -and highly controversial-interrogations of Private Meadlo and Captain Medina about the My Lai massacre. And it was Wallace who put together last week's powerful report on Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panthers. Cleaver openly admitted that his "goal is to take Senator McClellan's head," and "that would mean shooting my way in and shooting...