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Noah D. Oppenheim's (Column, March 17) description of "egregiously rude" students who asked Pat Buchanan questions makes me wonder whether he was at the speech or whether he is deliberately changing the context of students' questions. Oppenheim quotes a student saying: "Well, perhaps white Catholics and Christians such as yourself are not qualified to be here...
...people themselves barely knew existed. Exuding the authority of Nelson Mandela and the charisma of Che Guevara, Gusmao has been traveling the country spreading his vision of the future. "All of us must let go of the bad things they have done to us," he said in his first speech after returning to Timor in October, "because the future is ours." Timorese may be hungry, but for the first time they are learning to stand on their own feet. "The man is shaping the nation," says Father Filomeno Jacob, a Jesuit priest in Dili who worked secretly with the resistance...
...Beijing and Taipei have locked in a holding pattern: Chen maintains that his country is sovereign, while Chinese President Jiang Zemin holds (as does the U.S.) that Taiwan is a subset of China. As if to confirm that state of affairs, Chen, speaking in a post-victory speech in Mandarin as a seeming display of respect to China, said he wouldn't hold a national referendum on declaring Taiwanese sovereignty. Meanwhile, Beijing refrained from military action, and issued a statement saying it would take a "wait and see approach" to Chen's policies...
After the speech, Alan K. Simpson, director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and a former Republican senator from Wyoming, said Buchanan's presence in the election, even as a third party candidate, will hurt Bush more than Gore...
Washington's apology for past wrongs may count for more than the accompanying trade concessions in repairing relations with Iran. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is scheduled to deliver a speech on Iran policy Friday, in which she'll reach out for a rapprochement with Tehran by offering to end sanctions against certain luxury imports and to negotiate the rapid unfreezing of billions of dollars of Iranian assets impounded in the U.S. after the Islamic revolution of 1979. More important, perhaps, she will acknowledge previous U.S. mistakes in dealing with Iran - notably CIA involvement in the 1953 coup that overthrew...