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...while, it seemed that the bugles might blow forever. Tanaka wrapped up two major foreign policy missions that had eluded his cautious predecessor, Eisaku Sato: a reasonably successful meeting of the minds with Richard Nixon on U.S.-Japanese economic matters in Hawaii, and a historic summit with Chou En-lai in Peking. Tanaka was all over the headlines, the TV tube and even the bestseller lists -with an imaginative-sounding but ghostwritten book entitled A Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago, which offered some slick, idyllic proposals for controlling the country's urban sprawl...
Even in such a relatively benign matter as the release of eleven U.S. flyers shot down over China during the Korean War, John Foster Dulles first urged Hammarskjöld to intervene, then refused to allow their families to travel to Peking at Chou En-lai's behest. As a result the flyers' release was delayed eight months. Chou chose Hammarskjöld's birthday as the time to hand them over...
TUESDAY: NBC Reports. Producer Lucy Jarvis ("The Kremlin", "The Louvre") spent three months in mainland China as the guest of Chou En-Lai to produce this special on "The Forbidden City," the national art treasure-trove of the People's Republic. CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color...
...bombings of North Viet Nam also aroused doubts-moral questions that would persist even though the bombing was halted as abruptly as it began. At My Lai, most Americans believe, a handful of atypical G.I.s were acting "illegally" when they slaughtered several hundred Vietnamese civilians. Last week American bomber pilots were killing Vietnamese civilians-who in this case were fiercely defended by SAM missiles-but now it was official U.S. policy, ordered by the Commander in Chief...
...Government disregard the desire of the people of Viet Nam and obdurately persist in its war of aggression, the Chinese people will, as always, resolutely perform their internationalist duty and give all-out support and assistance to the Vietnamese people till complete victory is won." Premier Chou En-lai said that the renewed bombing could endanger the improved Chinese-American relations...