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...China's online market. AOL Time Warner, which publishes TIME, is said to be the furthest along. Sources say it has held intense negotiations with Beijing's politically well-connected Legend Computer about forming a joint venture that would then snap up Netease. Rumors link Microsoft with Sina. (Spokesmen for Microsoft and AOL deny there are any deals in the works.) Amid all the jockeying, Yahoo!'s plans seem the murkiest. International expansion may no longer be a major priority: many of Yahoo!'s most senior international executives have resigned, among them Savio Chow, managing director of Yahoo! Asia...
...given the role he has played in raising money for both Clintons and the $150 million presidential library, where the gifts are unrestricted and not subject to disclosure--at least until they were hit with a congressional subpoena. So party strategists are hedging their bets and looking for new spokesmen--Democrats in Congress, think tanks, labor unions, even Al Gore...
...company spokesmen told TIME, Cheney's compensation from the two boards will total more than $150,000 in cash and stock. And she does not rule out accepting additional posts in the future. To be sure, there's nothing illegal about remaining on the boards. Says Charles Lewis of Washington's Center for Public Integrity: "It's a perception issue, not a legal one. It doesn't look so good if she is out there schmoozing with the captains of industry who are benefiting from her stature while her husband is deciding policy that might affect these companies...
...over Radio Pakistan. India, it had said, 'has launched an all-out offensive against East Pakistan without a formal declaration of war.' That charge proved to be false; it was not a full-fledged war?yet. On the other hand, it was certainly not a trifling skirmish, as Indian spokesmen at first euphemistically described...
...latest incidents come despite renewed efforts at implementing previous cease-fire agreements, which last week had more optimistic spokesmen on both sides cautiously chewing over prospects for resuming talks. Worse news for Barak's reelection effort may be the go-ahead he gave over the weekend for an international commission of inquiry into the current violence to begin its work - the Israelis had previously insisted that the commission should wait until after the current violence abates, but under encouragement from President Clinton Barak agreed in principle that it should begin work immediately. The commission, constituted by Clinton as part...