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...Heard from the State Department that Nationalist China's Ambassador Hollington K. Tong had delivered the Chiang Kai-shek government's "profoundest regrets" for an ugly incident in Taipei, Formosa: a mob. angered by a U.S. Army court-martial's acquittal of a G.I. charged with voluntary manslaughter of a Chinese, stormed into the U.S. embassy and injured at least nine U.S. citizens (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...China and the United States have never negotiated a status-of-forces agreement for the 2,000 American military men on Formosa, soldiers in effect enjoy extraterritorial rights. So Chinese newspapermen, covering a murder case unrelated to military action, found themselves in the unfamiliar atmosphere of an army court-martial. They did not like...
...week, Taipei's newspapers, both government-controlled and independent, had been giving extensive coverage of a U.S. Army court-martial. Robert G. Reynolds, 42, a balding and meaty U.S. Army master sergeant, was charged with the killing of a Chinese intruder in the backyard of his home eight miles outside Taipei. Reynolds contended that the Chinese was a Peeping Tom whom he caught spying on his wife one night last March while she was toweling herself after a shower. He had gone after the man with a 22-cal. pistol, the sergeant testified, had shot him only after...
Spark for the Tinder. Nationalist authorities privately expected that the court would find Reynolds guilty and let him off with two or three years in jail. Instead, the court-martial's verdict last week, on a basic plea of self-defense, was "not guilty." By this time, emotions were running so high that Reynolds, his wife and seven-year-old daughter had to be rushed out to Taipei airport escorted by 67 police, hustled aboard a U.S. Air Force plane and flown off to Manila...
...first formal press conference in three years, Premier Nuri asSaid said flatly that Iraq would retain martial law-imposed last autumn after Britain and France invaded Suez-as long as the Soviet Union continued her attempts to penetrate the Middle East. Martial law will be lifted, he said, "when we see that Communism-or, really, Moscow-is going to stop creating troubles among our neighboring countries. I don't believe Moscow is going to stop creating disturbances, so we must be careful not to allow Shepilov, Khrushchev and others to deal with our safety, our policy." As-Said...