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The word from Peking via Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger  and CIA nominee George Bush is that Chairman Mao is, despite the rumor, in good health considering the strokes he recently suffered. According to the press, "his eyes lit up when he gazed upon Susan Ford," and other clear signs of activity. The media was probably shocked at Mao's chipper condition- rumors have been circulated throughout the globe ever since before the victory of the People's Republic of China that Mao was sick, dead, or worse. The rumors appear every few years or so; there's been a rash of them recently. The photos of Betty dancing with a group of Chinese women was the apex of the trip for US viewers. Ford is being heavily criticized for leaving Rome while it burns, but really, we think a visit to China is probably one of the more useful things Ford is capable of accomplishing. When will Betty leave lunkhead?

A little to the south, it appears that the war-ravaged nation of Vietnam will finally be able to reunite its northern and southern, artificially divided halves. A nationwide conference in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) November 15-21 agreed to organize nationwide free elections to choose a common National Assembly to draft a single constitution for one Vietnamese government. The Assembly will rename the unified country, and name the capital for all of Vietnam. Of course, the Geneva Assembly of 1956 agreed that the two countries would be reunited by nationwide elections back then, but the U.S. intervened to squelch that one...

Again in Asia, the King and Premier of Laos have abdicated and resigned, leaving the government in the hands of the popular socialist movement known as the Pathet Lao. The Pathet Lao first came to the attention of the US public when the government bombed the entire Plain of Jars in central Laos clear of any vegetation in order to make it impossible for the guerillas to hide. Of course, the US press is now lamenting the "fall" of Laos and the spread of "communist domination." Seems like objective journalism always depends on your point of view.

Back home on the gory intelligence front, Tricky Dick will finally get his chance to testify live and in person before a panel from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Milhouse will be queried primarily on his role in fomenting counter-revolution in Chile, and is expected to take the Fifth Amendment and executive privilege as his privilege defense against saying anything useful... A report just out shows that every President since Roosevelt used the FBI or CIA for personal or extra-legal political advantage. The Republicans like to point that kind of thing out because it takes the heat off them in relation to the Democrats. See,  everybody does it. Like we always said, it is the system that is corrupt...

Ex-FBI agent Gary Rowe testified last week that the Bureau would always ignore his advance warnings of terrorist activities planned by the Ku Klux Klan, and let the death and bloodshed continue unabated.. Why doesn't somebody investigate the murder of civil rights firebrand Medgar Evers, an object of great FBI scorn?... The sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were fried in the electric chair for supposedly stealing non-existent "secrets" of the atom bomb and giving them to the Russians. have charged an FBI Freedom of Information release of documents on the case was incomplete. The Bureau, of course, is claiming that they spilled all the beans. Another stench from the FBI's closet of dirty tricks just about to reach the public nose.

In case you caught the CBS-TV specials last week reviewing the evidence of conspiracy in the John F. Kennedy murder case, consider these facts from the Village Voice. First, CBS hired Itek, a photoanalysis firm, to examine the Zapruder film, which clearly shows Kennedy being struck by a bullet from the front. The Itek Corporation all but proclaimed what you see in the film as an optical illusion. Well, it turns out that Itek is a Rockefeller-controlled company that gets 60 percent of its contracts from the military and the CIA. Its Chairman of the Board and his assistant have both been named as CIA agents by ex-employees. The horse's mouth, anyone?... Dr. James Weston, the president-elect of the Academy of Forensic Sciences, asked by CBS to examine Kennedy's wounds, is the only Academy official still satisfied with the original Warren Commission conclusions that the two shots both came from the rear... The doctor called upon by CBS to uphold the controversial belief that a single bullet could possibly emerge unscathed after hitting both Kennedy and Governor John Connally, is a veterinarian at a military installation. His is a lone approving voice. Even Life magazine showed years ago that a similar bullet going through one dead body's wrist emerged flattened, compared to the Warren "magic bullet." It just goes to show, folks, you can't believe every thing they have on TV... The next issue of The SUN will present an in-depth look at new evidence in the Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations now coming to light.

The assassinations of Fred Hampton, twenty-some odd other members of the Black Panther Party, and Malcolm X have certainly not received the attention they deserve. BPP member George Jackson is another case. The official version is that Jackson was shot in the prison yard while trying to escape. Well the official version is beginning to crumble due to new evidence being brought out in the trial or the San Quentin Six.