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...MEMBERS OF HONG KONG'S LEGISlative Council sat in silence, Governor Christopher Patten unleashed a sharp-tongued salvo against Beijing last week -- a measure of his frustration with the intransigent mainland government. Declaring that Britain and China had only "weeks rather than months" to map out something resembling a democratic future for the colony, Patten threatened to push ahead unilaterally with political reform, specifically his effort to broaden, however modestly, Hong Kong's electoral base, a program that has drawn Beijing's unrelenting ire. In urging the legislators to fight for reform, Patten asked, "If we are not prepared...
...While Patten's speech contained considerable bluff, it also reflected growing irritation in London and Washington with Beijing's toughened posture on a variety of issues ranging from Hong Kong's future to human rights to nuclear proliferation. U.S. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake recently described China as a "backlash," or antidemocratic, state like Iran, Iraq or Chile under General Augusto Pinochet. So concerned is the Clinton Administration with the deteriorating relationship that Secretary of State Warren Christopher has launched a high-level effort to turn things around, beginning with the dispatch to Beijing this week of John Shattuck...
...pattern of friction be broken? Clinton expressed "deep regret" over China's decision to explode a nuclear weapon, and then announced that the U.S. Department of Energy would prepare for the resumption of U.S. atomic testing. As for Hong Kong, Governor Patten's implied threat to go ahead with reform that Beijing has said it will ignore can only set the stage for more confrontation. Even before the Governor's speech, China had issued a statement that reiterated Deng's 11-year-old threat to retake Hong Kong before 1997 should Britain create "serious disturbances," such as going ahead with...
Despite its name, College Fest was not limited to college students. Bethany Patten and Charlene Bergeron, 12th-graders at Acton-Boxboro Regional High School, accumulated full bags...
...much free stuff," Patten said. "I like the t-shirts the best, and the music...