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...takes" to defend the island against a Chinese attack. In the last two years, a Taiwanese deputy defense minister visited Washington a couple of times?after no one as senior had made a visit of the kind in more than two decades. And last month, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Chen shook hands and chatted while on a visit to Panama...
...graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, now languishing in a Chinese prison. Yang is an unapologetic democracy activist, and the Chinese authorities threw dubious espionage charges his way after he entered the country with fake papers a year-and-a-half ago. And even though Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and a number of other Washington politicians have called for Yang’s release—including forceful letters from members of Congress sent to President Bush and Premier Wen last week—Summers has so far kept silent. Wen’s visit...
...have in the animal-rights movement," she says. The most serious illegal actions against people and property - including the "liberation" of animals from breeding farms - are carried out anonymously, often under such flags of convenience as the Animal Liberation Front, the Animal Rights Militia or the Justice Department. Colin Blakemore, a professor of physiology at the University of Oxford whose medical research has relied on animal tests, was among several scientists threatened with assassination several years ago. Crude devices intended to injure have been sent to his home and office. The violence of a tiny fraction of animal-rights campaigners...
...their respective sides: the Israeli negotiators were accused of undermining their own government, while Palestinians decried the document's abandonment of Palestinian refugees' right of return to land inside Israel proper. The Bush Administration seems to be supporting the deal if only to pressure Israel, as Secretary of State Colin Powell met with the drafters despite complaints by Israel. What do you think? Is the plan worth U.S. support if only to restart the stalled dialogue, or is it just a hollow document that won't spur any new peaceful developments? Send us your thoughts...
...while visiting Beijing with her husband and son in 2001, her conviction on charges of spying for Taiwan became an international incident. Human-rights groups trumpeted her cause and U.S. President George W. Bush complained to then Chinese President Jiang Zemin. A few days before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell landed in Beijing for a visit in July 2001, the sociologist was released and returned to a hero's welcome in Washington...