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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