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China continues its quest for new contacts and alignments throughout the world. Last week, the Chinese welcomed the inaugural flight to Peking by Ethiopian Airlines. TIME's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan was aboard and duly found himself face to face with Premier Chou En-lai at the Great Hall of the People. His report...
That was more of an advance than the Administration had expected when Kissinger set out on his tour, which included talks with Communist leaders in Hanoi, conversations with Premier Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Peking, and a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in Tokyo. Delighted by what he called the decision "to accelerate the normalization of relations" between the U.S. and China, Kissinger said the U.S. representative to Peking will be named within a month. Although he will not have the rank of ambassador, Kissinger indicated that the importance Washington places...
...tried the proper channels and found them closed. When he tried a bit too hard, he was suddenly relieved of his combat command and assigned to a degrading desk job in Georgia, a job only recently vacated by Captain Ernest Medina, who had been hanging there in post-My Lai limbo. After spending his personal savings of $8,000 and going $40,000 into debt trying to gain justice within the Army, after enduring harrassment of his family, after surviving assassination attempts, he finally gave up on military justice and retired in February...
...description of the economic base of a provincial commune or production methods at a small rural factory provide some of the freshest Western reporting yet from China. He even found evidence of humor in the seemingly stolid Communist leadership. At the start of a three-hour interview, Chou En-lai asked him, "Would you like to know what I really think, or would you like another of those boring public interviews...
...government has tried to cut off criticism by punishing news organizations that report all of the news and comment honestly on it. The Washington Post and The New York Times have been under much pressure from the White House and the Justice Department for their reporting of My Lai, the Pentagon Papers, and the Watergate case, McGovern said...