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...surface, the generals simply exchanged jobs in a face-saving way. But China watchers speculated that the military reshuffle was part of a broader campaign-an attempt by Chairman Mao and Premier Chou En-lai to increase the authority of the party's Central Committee at the expense of military men, who still suffer from the ancient Chinese tendency to set up warlord fiefdoms in the provinces...
...musical called More Than You De serve. Sponsored by Joseph Papp at his lower Manhattan dramatic -arts com plex, the Public Theater, it reflects his le gitimate dismay at the social and polit ical gangrene spread by the Viet Nam War. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transpose the My Lai massacre into a sick South Pacific. Nonetheless, if the hard-rock band does not split a play goer's skull, some of the farcically outrageous and libidinous goings-on may tickle his ribs...
...according to one joke, held down his boss's coattails when Nixon jammed both arms high into the air to salute the crowds. After the election, Chapin became Nixon's appointments secretary, working under the wing of Bob Haldeman. Even Chinese Premier Chou En-lai was impressed with Chapin's skill at detail work, telling him in Peking: "You are an example of how we should utilize young men in government...
...with more protocol and ceremony than usual. Kissinger's plane was allowed to fly directly to Peking airport instead of making the normally prescribed stopover at Shanghai to pick up a Chinese navigator. Just 2½ hours after his arrival, he was greeted by Premier Chou En-lai at a banquet in the Great Hall of the People. Chou, now 75, complimented Kissinger on becoming Secretary of State while "you are still young and vigorous." He also said that the Japanese press had dubbed him "the Middle East cyclone." Replied Kissinger: "Another trip through the Middle East...
...reject-and Calley does too, now-the philosophy that in our technological system we are less responsible for My Lais. I say, quite dissimilarly, that in our system human beings are intolerable intrusions that-by inches usually, or with dispatch, as at My Lai-we choose to eliminate...