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...Nationalist China's steaming capital of Taipei, a question of courtroom justice touched off the ugliest and most violent anti-American riot in Formosa's history. Unlike many anti-U.S. outbreaks in the Far East and elsewhere in recent years, last week's riot was no carefully organized manifestation of left or right, but a spontaneous, flash-fire uprising. And because it was misunderstood, and its consequences unforeseen, it very nearly became something worse...
...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...
...widow of the slain Chinese had told police that her husband knew Reynolds. But neither the prosecution nor the defense called her as a witness, nor made any attempt in court to explore the relationship, if any. The result was to lend credence to widely repeated rumors all over Taipei that the dead man and Ser geant Reynolds had some kind of connection, perhaps in black-market activities...
...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...
...tinder of trouble had been piled higher than anyone knew. The suspicions reflected by the editorials were joined, in the minds of Taipei's Chinese, with the accumulated frustrations of seven years of exile and political uncertainty, and by a general but seldom articulated feeling of irritation and resentment against the better-paid, better-clad and better-housed Americans (and other foreigners) in the capital...