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- LETTERS, Page 6Death in Shanghai
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- The coverage of the crackdown in China (WORLD, June 26) was
- of special interest to me. In 1949 I was part of a U.S. unit
- working in Shanghai with the Chinese Nationalists. Following the
- evacuation of foreigners from the city, I remained behind as
- liaison and was sometimes invited to witness public executions
- held to intimidate the population of the city. Once a Chinese
- aide pointed to one of three victims waiting to be shot and
- confided, "That man was arrested last week as a petty thief.
- We're using him because we've run out of Communist prisoners."
- Forty years later, Nationalist, Communist, nothing much has
- changed.
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- Grant A. Fielden Tampa
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