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Like the Bible, Confucius can be quoted to any purpose--perhaps that explains his resiliency. Last week, Chinese newspapers criticized The Master for showing signs of discreet disloyalty to his own rulers. If, as rumors indicate, Chou En-Lai is the target of this latest flurry of revolutionary fervor, this may be a way of announcing suspicions of faithlessness to Mao and China. Confucius will be a long time in dying for the sins of his followers...
Freelandia's corporate decisions will be made by a board of directors to be elected as soon as there are enough members. Right now Moss, Flynn and journalist David Obst, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the My Lai massacres, form a provisional government of sorts. Obst is also on the board that directs contributions to charities made with Freelandia's occasional profits...
...find the analogy far-fetched, look at any recent history of American Indians. Picture yourself as an Indian watching a Wayne film. What will the next portray? The Trail of Tears? The distribution of smallpox-infected blankets? The massacre at My Lai? Sand Creek? Wounded Knee...
...became even more hopeful when we got to China and the guide in charge of our tour in Canton told us he was reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. We started asking him to arrange a meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-Lai. They were the only two Chinese leaders we knew by name. We wanted to brag to our friends back home and we figured those two could tell us more about the nation's communist system than anybody else...
...last decade has not all been triumph at the Times. It was badly outdistanced by the Washington Post on Watergate. Not until the Times in 1972 hired Seymour Hersh, who first exposed the My Lai massacre, did its Washington bureau do much in the way of investigative reporting. Shrinking profits have twice prompted Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger to send somber Yuletide messages to employees warning of economies ahead. Its editorial staff has been trimmed slightly...