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Since the Peking summit of 1972, Chinese leaders have notably muted their anti-American diatribes. But at a banquet last week for General Khieu Samphan, commander of the insurgent Communist forces in Cambodia, Premier Chou En-lai lashed out at the U.S. for having "brazenly made a massive invasion into Cambodia." In an oblique reference to Richard Nixon, Chou contemptuously dismissed the President's oft-stated goals for détente with the comment: "The revolutionary people do not all believe in a so-called lasting peace' or a 'generation of peace.' So long as imperialism...
...Chou En-lai the ultimate (if still unnamed) target of these ideological onslaughts? There is no question that the campaign against the Peach Mountain opera was launched by Chou's leftist enemies - notably Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung - and that by making it a national issue, his radical adversaries have proved their strength. Still, this does not mean that the pliable, politically skillful Premier Chou is in any immediate danger of being isolated in the emerging struggle over who will succeed the aging...
...imperial defenses, regardless of the cost to the people it was fighting or even to its own people. Portugal, one of the poorest countries in Europe, spends half its budget on its African war, without counting the lives of its young men. There was even a Portuguese My Lai last summer: The Times of London reported in July that Portuguese troops has massacred 400 civilians in a small village in Mozambique. It was the first well-publicized documentation of the indiscriminate killing revolutionaries had long reported and Portugal had tried to cover...
...William R. Calley again makes headlines as a result of a recent court ruling permitting him to be freed on bail pending an appeal of his previous convictions for "murdering at least 22 Vietnamese citizens at My Lai March 16, 1968." I would like to make it as clear as possible that no one could more deeply deplore than I the crimes of Lt. Calley. They really border on the insane. It is certainly conceivable, however, that an unstable character might have honestly believed that he or she was carrying out the orders of superiors, or even those...
...still an Army officer, and proud to be," Calley said after his release on bail by the civil court judge. He still is appealing the 20-year sentence he received from a military court for murdering 22 civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. "I intend to continue to pursue all legal avenues until my conviction is reversed, I am released completely and forever, and my name is cleared." Meanwhile the review of Calley's case by Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway has already begun. Callaway, or President Nixon when he reviews the case later, could reduce...