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...listening sessions. In February 1996 Clinton met with Wang Jun, whose many businesses include an arms-trading company owned by the People's Republic of China. And then, on April 1, 1996, Clinton held a coffee for a group of 15 that included Roger Tamraz, a Lebanese-American businessman, who asked Clinton to support his proposal to build an oil pipeline to the Caspian Sea. At the coffee, Clinton asked his longtime aide Mack McLarty to follow up with officials at the Energy Department. By the time of the coffee, Tamraz had donated $195,000 to the Democrats in pursuit...
That doesn't mean Democratic National Committee officials and their Teamster friends didn't try to make it happen. Chicago businessman Mark Thomann, who worked for the D.N.C. as a fund raiser in 1996, has told TIME that he was directed by the party's finance chief to deliver to the Carey team $100,000 from a foreign donor and that he was pressured to follow through by a Teamster lawyer sent his way by D.N.C. officials in Washington. Thomann's story, told to federal prosecutors as well as to Senate investigators, is the most solid evidence yet that party...
Wintemute, 46, who knots his dusky blond hair into a discreet ponytail, could easily be cast in TV's ER series--if he were not so determined to play by his own script. Born and reared in Long Beach, Calif., the son of a chemist-turned-businessman father and a schoolteacher mother, he majored in biology at Yale and later did some graduate work in neurophysiology. Eventually switching to medical school at U.C. Davis, he decided to study emergency medicine, a pressure-cooker specialty that suited his go-go personality. "It's practicing medicine on the run," he says...
...story "A New Man in Donorgate?" [NATION, Sept. 8], about a January negotiating round between U.S. and Chinese representatives on a textile trade agreement, strangely omitted a few facts. The individual you focused on, Stephen Lau, whom you characterized as a Hong Kong businessman, openly presented himself as an adviser to the Chinese. While he did join me and other delegation members in a ride to a meeting with Chinese government officials, ostensibly as an escort to the Chinese Ministry of Trade, Lau did not engage in substantive discussions with anyone in the U.S. delegation about the ongoing U.S.-China...
...SYDNEY POITIER, and she's coming to a TV screen near you sometime next year. Sydney, 23, is Sidney's youngest daughter. (He has six, three of whom are actresses.) When he was cast in the Showtime movie Free of Eden as a former schoolteacher turned big-shot businessman, he asked the producers to look at his daughter's audition tape for a small part. "He called me at the record company where I was working as an assistant and told me they wanted me for the lead," says Poitier fille. "I said, 'What are you talking about?' He said...