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LETTERS, Page 6Death in Shanghai
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.
Grant A. Fielden
Tampa