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"We can only assume from this that not offending Beijing is more important to the administration than exerting pressure on China to release more dissidents and improve its human rights record," he said.
I think their biggest concern is not upsetting a major contributor to their campain. :=/ Let's not forget that we have the '98 elections comming up and the Democrats need that Chinese money to help them in their bid to retake the House not to mention that the 2000 Presidential elections are not that far off. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNJqaZo9Co1n+aLhhAQK4pwP/eemMiHVbPoSk6+gwVKjO8JbUVK5BMtL7 FiFnOYidEl4hwGJumkOvvj3bwi4p4xF1oYW2kFZPu/WKMWu1fcqaxrFX+8BwsElS J3DE+e7KBtg1QbdXut8OisDaowXQfLMD/wN30hlX/WnBsGR9tNsk8Fkw1jD569Kp f8CQ1Fed1NA= =Koqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----