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...months snapshots of a Democratic White House desperately grubbing for campaign dollars have focused on Asian Americans with strong business ties to their native lands. Now Republicans tell Time the G.O.P. has profited from an Asian money connection as well. Twice in two years Hong Kong businessman Ambrous Tung Young bailed out the party at crucial moments: first freeing up as much as $2 million in the final days before the G.O.P.'s 1994 sweep of Congress; then eating $500,000 in bad debts, rescuing Republicans in the last weeks of the 1996 contest. The conduit for the money...
...Asian aerospace circles. Little else about him is publicly available--at least not yet. Last Friday, Haley Barbour received a new subpoena, this one asking for all records relating to the National Policy Forum. With Washington's investigations widening to include Republican backers, the well-guarded anonymity of Ambrous Tung Young may be coming...
...Perhaps, but not because such a juxtaposition fails to address important issues for Chinese painting. In fact, the dramatic meeting of the two religious traditions, Buddhism and Daoism, and their dialogue with a third belief system, Confucianism, is the intellectual thread that Matsutaro Shoriki Curator of Asiatic Art Wu Tung attempts to draw across the three spacious galleries of the MFA's Gund Gallery. Nor should it bother us so much, at this stage in the game, that the scholar's rock and the Buddhist relief are utterly divorced from any notion of social function or historical relevance...
HONG KONG: In the game of foreign relations, often the smallest gesture can carry the force of a tsunami in its symbolism. Such was the case when future Hong Kong leader C.H. Tung abruptly canceled a planned visit to the U.S. next month. The reason? President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore's announcement that they will meet Friday with Tung nemesis Martin Lee, Hong Kong's most outspoken proponent of democracy. TIME's William Dowell reports that the recognition represents a dramatic shift in the White House treatment of Lee. "For years, former secretary of state Warren Christopher...
...very presence in the United States caused friction with Beijing. Before leaving on his multinational tour for support, Lee met with China's hand-picked chief executive Tung Che-Hwa and received a reprimand for traveling abroad and soliciting foreign money for the Hong Kong Democratic Party