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...freelance journalist Rob Schultheis recorded numerous refugee accounts of the mass execution of 800 people, in the elderly, in the Laghman Valley in eastern Afghanistan. The well-documented level of brutality in this incident place it in the ranks of other well-known civilian massacres, like Guernica or My Lai. National Public Radio was the only U.S. media organization to carry the Laghman story...
...were to the past. Gone were half a dozen aging military men, including the ailing Marshal Ye Jianying, 88, who had helped Mao Tse-tung plan the Long March of 1934-35 (see SPECIAL SECTION). Gone too was Politburo Member Deng Yingchao, 81, the widow of Premier Chou En-lai and the country's highest-ranking woman official. Also on the retirement list were three former Ministers of Public Security, as well as such veterans of the Cultural Revolution as Wang Dongxing, 69, a onetime Mao bodyguard who in the mid-1970s rose to become a vice chairman...
...when the knights somehow seem monstrous, killers risen out of a black id, perpetrators of My Lai, then the entire chivalric logic collapses, and masculinity itself becomes a horror--all rage and aggression and reptilian brain. Viet Nam changed American notions about the virtues of masculinity and femininity. In the '60s, during the great violence of the war, masculine power came to be subtly discredited in many circles as oafish and destructive. The heritage of the Enlightenment (the scientific method, progress, that dreamy Jeffersonian clarity of mind that told us all problems could be solved) now seemed drawn into...
More than half a million people have applied to leave the country legally, but under the Orderly Departure Program, only about 300 emigrants a week make it out. Many are the bastard children of G.I.s. Says Refugee Tran Thi My Chau, 17: "Everybody called me con lai (half-breed...
Convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre, Lieut. Calley was released from house arrest in Fort Benning, Ga., in 1974 after serving one-third of a ten-year sentence. Calley, 41, settled in nearby Columbus, Ga., where he is a sales manager in his father-in-law's V.V. Vick jewelry store...