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...took more than a year for word of the My Lai massacre to reach Washington. Last week the Army punished two of the men it considered responsible for that delay. Major General Samuel W. Koster, commander of the Americal Division at the time of My Lai, was demoted one grade to Brigadier General. He and his assistant division commander, Brigadier General George H. Young Jr., were stripped of their Distinguished Service Medals and given letters of censure. That, in effect, ended their military careers...
Before My Lai, Koster had an outstanding military record. He had commanded an infantry battalion in Europe in World War II and had served with the Eighth Army in Korea. His fellow officers were clearly unhappy with his treatment. They argued that he was only following the old Army practice of protecting his men. But Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor, who handed down the punishment just before he resigned last week, maintained that Koster had evidence that possible war crimes had been committed at My Lai, and it was his professional duty to make a report. Koster...
...admitted a handful of foreign correspondents, including the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, an old China hand, and LIFE'S John Saar. The view turned out to be carefully circumscribed and minimally enlightening. True to his promise to admit Western newsmen "in batches," Premier Chou En-lai last week invited another group of correspondents to China. Included: the New York Times's assistant managing editor Seymour Topping, who has already entered the country, Robert Keatley of the Wall Street Journal, and the Times's star columnist James Reston, who will go in June...
...film is also infused with a Michel Legrand score that is at once appalling and appropriate. Its romantic attempts to tumble into poignancy echo Francis Lai's Love Story theme, but here the music seems to actually reflect the true excesses of its period. In fact, in the film's climactic scene, Hermie places a big band treatment of the film's theme song onto the phonograph, and, in the wonderful moment that follows, the two realities-that of purported, remembered history and blatant movie artificiality-merge. Like a mobius strip, the film turns back on itself and, for just...
...Soong was called the Alexander Hamilton of China for making economic reforms as Chiang's young Minister of Finance. Soong later rallied the support of Shanghai bankers for the Generalissimo in his 1927 power struggle with the Communists. But during World War II Soong cooperated with Chou En-lai in forging a Nationalist-Communist alliance against the invading Japanese. As Foreign Minister, Soong shuttled among Western capitals seeking financial help for his government. He scored his biggest success with F.D.R. Appointed Premier in 1944, Soong resigned two years later after failing to solve his country's critical fiscal...