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...indignant. I am ashamed of my country. Mr. Agnew will say I ought to criticize the North Vietnamese for atrocities, etc. Certainly I don't condone them, but Mr. Agnew misses the point: they are not my people. I don't want my men to commit My Lai massacres, my generals to conduct unauthorized bombing raids, my pilots to bomb dikes against orders. I don't want my President to let his people wiretap, sabotage the opposition and misinform the public on his behalf. I don't want the traditional warm human values of the American...
...taken simply on the 2.7 million Americans who fought there. If the majority of them performed bravely and well?and they did?their sacrifices were somehow tragically diminished by the very ambiguity of the war, its often enraging purposelessness. At its very worst, that frustration produced My Lai and other less celebrated atrocities. The fraternity of Viet Nam veterans faced the additional frustration of returning with neither honor nor glory to the nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back maimed or crippled. In one scene of Hogarthian savagery not long...
Seymour Hersh, New York Times reporter and author of My Lai 4, will speak on "The Effects of the Vietnam War on the American Army" at 7:15 tonight in the Adams House...
Premier Chou En-lai was in an expansive mood last week when he greeted 22 touring journalists from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Peking's Great Hall of the People. During a wide-ranging, 3-hr. 40-min. conversation, Chou cracked a joke about Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger ("He can talk to you for half an hour and not give you one substantive answer") and gave a bit of news about China's birth control campaign (researchers are widely testing a once-a-month contraceptive pill). China's second-in-command also raised...
...week's end, with a few whisks of their Chinese writing brushes, Tanaka of Japan and Premier Chou En-lai of China signed an agreement to end "the state of war" between the two countries and establish diplomatic relations immediately. The summit was much more than a delayed coda to World War II however. The reconciliation between the two nations-one of them the world's fastest-growing industrial democracy, the other its most populous and doctrinaire Communist nation-had ended "an abnormal state of affairs," as Chou put it with considerable understatement. In resuming normal relations with...