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Park Shin-II, South Korea's Consul-General, said he was impressed with the talk...
Other assorted oddities: a youngster by the baked brie plate slapped an invitation to a gala ball in my hand after shaking it. He looked twelve years old. The tickets were $250 each. The German consul-general and his lovely wife Anna described their other foreign posts. A quintillionth-generation Harvard sexagenarian discussed Canadian politics with startling insight. A former Harvard rugby player offered to hook up an undergraduate with his 'friend' in business...
...meet with a U.S. official for the first time since he was detained June 19. Wu, an American citizen who spent 19 years in aChinese labor campbefore emigrating to the U.S. in 1985, was not allowed to discuss his case in the heavily-monitored, half-hour meeting with U.S. Consul General Arturo Macias at a jail in the central city of Wuhan. The arrest has single-handedly sentU.S.-Chinese relationsinto a tailspin, infuriating lawmakers in Washington, setting off numerous State Department protests. But China, equally livid at Wu's repeated success inslipping through its bordersto expose human rights abuses...
...1950s' Operation Wetback. Now California's Proposition 187, aimed at denying education and health services to undocumented immigrants, is seen as an exercise in ethnic cleansing. ``History is taught one way in Mexico and another way in the U.S.,'' says former Public Education Secretary Jose Angel Pescador Osuna, consul in Los Angeles. ``It is our psychological trauma that the U.S. robbed us. But in the U.S. textbooks portray Mexicans as bandits who invaded Texas...
Also participating on the political panel will be: Ambassador Richard Williams, former U.S. consul general to Hong Kong; Dr. Allen Lee Pang Fei, chair of the Liberal Party in Hong Kong; Bing Leung, vice-chair of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, and Jonathan Mirsky, East Asian correspondent for the London Times...