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...California congressman who reportedly kept company with the missing intern will break his silence tonight at 10 p.m. ET on ABC in a live-to-tape, no-restrictions interview with the winner of the "get" sweepstakes, Connie Chung. (A nickel for Dan Rather's thoughts right now.) By Monday, similarly "candid" interviews with Condit will have appeared - at this writing - in national weeklies People and Newsweek, and on local television stations in his home district. Condit has also penned a letter to constituents, which arrived at the Modesto Post Office some time Wednesday afternoon. CNN's Bob Franken...
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...Even if the New York Post was right Wednesday in pegging Chung's sit-down with Condit as "the most-watched show of the summer," any public stir could be short-lived when viewers figure out what Condit is up to: Just trying to dust himself off politically while he's got the stage all to himself...
...business. There are some 300,000 Taiwanese on the mainland, many running factories, and they are learning that China is a dangerous place?for them in particular. Since Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province, Taiwanese have about the same standing as stateless people. Says Taipei's Deng Chen-chung, vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council: "We have to admit that there's little we can do for our Taiwanese businessmen in China." Taipei's powerlessness and Beijing's cold shoulder mean that businesspeople are "on their own, like orphans," according to Isao Chen, chairman of the Macau-Taiwan...
...Korea has had plenty of Presidents who despised the press. After seizing power in 1961, dictator Park Chung Hee banned news stories critical of his government and stationed intelligence agents in newsrooms. His successor Chun Doo Hwan forced media outlets to fire journalists he didn't like. Speaking out against the government in those days could get you arrested or beaten up. Today, censorship and physical intimidation are verboten, but heavy-handed habits die hard. The presidential Blue House still pressures editors to change copy, sometimes successfully. Says Kim Young Bae, who has just finished a stint as editorial page...