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...Once a dirty word among Jews, Nixon has decidedly spruced up. If Jews have become less liberal, the President has become more so. Somewhere along the way, they may have met. "Did you ever think you'd live to see Richard Nixon having dinner with Chou En-lai?" asks Lawrence Goldberg, director of the Jewish division of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. "This isn't the Nixon of the '50s. Jews have heard Hubert Humphrey talking about arms reductions for 20 years. But who gets the SALT talks going? Richard Nixon." If Richard...
...analysts see signs that Mao and Premier Chou En-lai are trying to put China's fractured leadership back together. Late last month, in an effort to convince the outside world that harmony had returned to Peking, Chinese officials began speaking openly for the first time of the events of last fall, confirming many details-Lin's attempts on Mao's life, his death in an air crash in Mongolia while trying to flee-that had filtered out of China long ago (TIME...
...reporting, suffered from a Lincoln Steffens I-have-seen-the-future-and-it-works naiveté. In Medina, her third short book of war reportage, she turns an account of the acquittal of Lieut. William Calley's immediate superior into a disquieting meditation on the meaning of My Lai...
Prejudiced Witnesses. Interestingly, McCarthy reports that before any of the My Lai proceedings began, a group of young Army lawyers suggested that all concerned-from generals down to sergeants-be tried en masse, on the Nuremberg model. Such a proceeding, she says, could have "apportioned blame in large, small and medium slices according to a single measure." Instead, the combination of separate trials and administrative decisions inevitably produced "a haphazard result" and left "a sense of un fairness." Even after Medina's trial, "the feeling remained that the full story of My Lai 4 was still to be told...
...exact nature of Kissinger's talks with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai was not yet known. But clearly from the kind of treatment Kissinger received, the Chinese considered the visit highly important. Kissinger was installed in the state guest house at Jade Abyss Pool Park in Peking, and between meetings with Premier Chou Enlai, treated to a lavish banquet in the Great Hall of the People. The People's Daily prominently displayed a group photograph of Kissinger, Chou and their top aides...