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...scrub China clean of prerevolutionary ideas. Instead, the Red Guards nearly wrecked the country, and had to be suppressed by the army. Now Mao is turning to youth again. Apparently the Chairman feels that its energy-if carefully controlled by party cadres-can spur the dragging campaign to rid China of revisionist "poison" spread by Lin Piao, Mao's former heir apparent...
However, at least two of the men chose to resign. Gray claims that he is getting rid of "Hooverites," yet some agents accuse him of retaining the most hated of Hoover's hard-line policies...
...gone. Nobody knows how many people died at An Loc, but what catches the eye is the graves. They are everywhere. The citizens and soldiers in the city were buried where they fell. One grave contains 600 bodies that were hastily covered over in an effort to rid the city of their stench. Another contains only the body of a young girl who used to joke and laugh with the troops; it is well tended...
Bail is also widely criticized because, in the words of the New York commission, it "arbitrarily discriminates against the poor" and puts those who cannot make bail under added "pressure to plead guilty." But precisely because of the latter reality, bail serves an unspoken purpose. Getting rid of it would very likely cut guilty pleas and further increase the already crippling delays in the courts...
...used to say that Virginia was continually picking up mental thorns--worries which she could not get rid of--particularly from criticism. She would come to me and say: 'I've got a thorn and we would discuss the thing until we had got the thorn...