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...China attacked the U.S. The questions were unjust. Fong is a fourth-generation Californian and served as state treasurer from 1995 to 1999. His mother was California's secretary of state from 1975 to 1994. "There is a subtle stereotyping and racism below the surface," says Fong. "It caught Wen Ho Lee, and it caught...
Aware of such deep prejudices, Asian Americans were not surprised by news that the case against Wen Ho Lee may have been pressed by race baiters."There are people who think every Chinese in a [defense] lab is a threat," says Brian Sun, one of Lee's lawyers. The low level of trust seems to be reflected in employment statistics. Asian Americans make up 80% of the Los Alamos personnel but only about a quarter of management. A study also showed that Asian Americans there earn lower salaries than their Anglo counterparts...
...case has become a major impetus for Chinese Americans to organize as a political force. The Wen Ho Lee Fund, based in California, has so far raised nearly $400,000 in small donations from across the country. Lee's release is likely to increase financial support for his full exoneration--and to fuel future Asian-American activism...
...because we don't have political clout and we don't speak out," says aids researcher Dr. David Ho, TIME's 1996 Man of the Year. He and others plan to use a Sept. 18 White House-sponsored "Asian-American initiative" at New York University to rally support for Wen Ho Lee and Asian-American civil rights. Says Ho: "We need our Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons to scream bloody murder when an injustice is carried out against our community." Lee's nine-month imprisonment may be the last time an Asian American suffers in silence...
When New York Times reporters James Risen and Jeff Gerth broke it on March 6, 1999, the story of Wen Ho Lee carried the plot line of a first-rate cold war thriller. In case the gravity of the security breach was lost on readers, the Times evoked the memory of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of--and executed for--leaking nuclear secrets from the same lab to the Soviet Union. The paper quoted a former CIA official as saying the case was "going to be just as bad as the Rosenbergs...