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FlorCruz says the Chinese government will try to downplay any attacks if at all possible. "The government needs Hillary Clinton there to add prestige to this conference, and it wants to smooth things over to facilitate the upcoming (October) summit meeting between Chinese President Jiang Zemin and President Clinton. The media so far has downplayed coverage, and the government will try to play the polite host...
...thaw brought on by last week's release ofHarry Wuand First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to attend a women's conference in China could result in a summit between President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Of course,there's a catch. The Chinese Foreign Ministry today suggested the two leaders might meet if the U.S. "honors its commitment on the question of Taiwan."As far as Beijing is concerned, Washington reneged on its promise to support "one China" when Clinton approved a U.S. visa for Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit Cornell last June. "For starters...
...SUMMING UP THE MOSCOW SUMMIT between Clinton and Yeltsin [The POLITICAL INTEREST, May 22], Michael Kramer quoted me as opposing the immediate extension of NATO membership to the countries of Central Europe on the grounds that "We've got time. If it's really 'Weimar Russia,' then we're only at 1932. NATO can enlarge when the threat gets real." The quotation incompletely expresses my views. The democracies did not resist Hitler in the 1930s until it was too late to avoid a terrible war. But a better indicator of how the West would respond to the kind of Russian...
Well before channel surfing was a glint in an engineer's eye, Zenith was a power to be reckoned with. The U.S. brand whose name suggests the summit of aspiration was born on a Chicago kitchen table in 1918, when two wireless-radio buffs turned out equipment for other amateurs. In the 1940s, Zenith went into making TV sets in a big way, and in 1956 it introduced the parents -- or grandparents -- of today's couch potatoes to the idea of remote control with its Space Command device...
...Rights Deval Patrick announced that Clinton would not "be intimidated" by aSupreme Court rulingthat jeopardizes programs that award federal contracts to minority businesses. "The Administration, through the president's speech, is making clear that we favoraffirmative actionwithout hype, without fear and without apology," Patrick said during a minority business summit on Capitol Hill. If the programs can't survive the Court's tough standards, he added, they "can, and should, be modified so that they meet that challenge...