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...administration's most egregious campaign finance mistake was its failure to look into (or its willful oversight of) the ties to China of Ng Lag Seng and Charles Yah Lin Trie. Seng, who recently had his $15,000 DNC donation returned, formerly served on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference...
...week that it was returning another $1.5 million in campaign contributions from 77 donors, bringing to almost $3 million the amount it has given back. Three-fourths of the suspect money was brought in by three Chinese-American moneymen: D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang, former Arkansas restaurant owner Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Johnny Chung, who brought six mainland Chinese businessmen to one of Clinton's radio addresses...
...story of Charles Yah Lin Trie might once have taxed the imagination of a Hollywood movie producer: A Taiwan-born man arrives in America empty of pocket but full of ambition. After working as a busboy in Washington, he opens a restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, befriends a future President of the U. S. and expands his business empire to the Far East. He becomes a top fund raiser for his old friend's party and then taps into a far-flung network of Buddhists for quick cash when the President gets into legal trouble. Eventually, he returns to Washington...
...something was amiss. Here was a radical Sixties left-Libertarian being introduced by Harvard's tenured Fifties conservative. Openly lesbian, Paglia (pronounced PAH-lee-yah) supports the complete legalization of abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography and drug use. Mansfield, on the other hand, renewed his notoriety this year with his testimony that homosexuality undermines civilization. Pagila thinks our society needs more sex. Mansfield thinks we need more shame...
...genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came out caw-vee-yah. "You know what caviar is? It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia!" A certain amount of family-values rhetoric is mere caviar denunciation...