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...amazed. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, one of the protesters' main punching bags?they distributed inflatable bludgeons imprinted with his caricature?was compelled to praise the march as "harmonious, with a touch of joyousness." The day after the march, a group of pro-democracy legislators asked Tung to request Beijing to reverse its decision in April to nix direct elections for the Chief Executive post and all the seats in the territory's Legislative Council. (Tung simply said he would have a meeting with the legislators to discuss the issue.) David Chu, a lawmaker from the pro-Beijing Progressive Alliance...
Jefferson answered virtually every letter he received, including screeds from lunatics and pleas from strangers for money. In particular he could not resist a request for advice. When a young student wrote him seeking some suggested reading, Jefferson picked up a regular correspondence with the youth and even personally hunted bookshops for texts for him. The student, William Munford, turned out to be a scoundrel who would spread political gossip about Jefferson. But historians consider this letter from the then Vice President to Munford to be essential Jefferson: a statement of his fundamental optimism, his faith in the possibility...
George Bush made the decision yesterday to hand over sovereignty to Iraq-two days before the proposed June 30th deadline-after a request from the Iraqi government and its Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who had been discussing the idea with American officials for more than a week. After a phone call with Allawi from Istanbul, Turkey-where Bush is attending a summit of NATO leaders-Bush said it was okay to go forward the next morning if the security situation permitted. After phone calls early this morning from National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice to Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer...
...respond to a request for comment...
...suggestions that the redaction request could be interpreted as an effort to provide political cover for Cheney, a CIA official responds that "the purpose of declassification review is to protect intelligence sources, methods and other classified matters which, if disclosed, could be helpful to adversaries, like weapons proliferators and terrorists. It is not to stifle criticism." Leaders of the Senate panel don't see it the same way. "The Committee is extremely disappointed by the CIA’s excessive redactions to the report," Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, and Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and West Virginia Democrat, said...