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What the bloody massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square failed to provoke may now come to pass because of an argument about . . . Mickey Mouse. Though the Bush Administration declined to punish China for the 1989 crackdown, it announced plans last week to unleash retaliatory tariffs worth up to $1.5 billion on Chinese exports. The reason: disregard by the Chinese for U.S. patents and copyrights covering books, audio and video recordings, computer software and such quintessentially American creations as Walt Disney's favorite rodent. The Chinese rarely pay for the use of such "intellectual property," resulting in serious losses...
...pursue evidence that the institution was involved in a whole network of nefarious activities. That was the Senate testimony last week of Robert Mazur, a federal undercover agent who said prosecutors ignored "hundreds of leads" and failed to exploit 100,000 documents seized in a 1988 money- laundering crackdown on B.C.C.I.'s Florida branch. The investigation, in which five B.C.C.I. officers were arrested at a phony "bachelor party" for Mazur, led to prison sentences for the executives and a $14 million fine for the bank...
...Ouko and Energy Minister Nicholas Biwott, who was recently accused of taking a 10% commission from an Italian contractor. Charging that "corruption in central government and personal vendetta were motives for Ouko's murder," Troon testified that Ouko and Biwott quarreled angrily after U.S. officials told the group a crackdown on government malfeasance would improve the business climate. Western governments, including the U.S., may withhold aid unless Kenya cleans...
...pronouncements of the so-called Emergency Committee and little else, TASS suddenly began interspersing them with reports of the burgeoning resistance. For example, it let Soviet citizens know that Aleksei II, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church and a signer of a December appeal for a law-and-order crackdown, had come out against the coup...
...European Community were showered with complaints that their failure to support such values may have encouraged the crackdown. "The Yugoslav generals got the idea that the West did not care about the declarations of independence," says Wolf Oschlies, a policy analyst at the Federal Institute for International Studies in Cologne. "So they attacked." Not only right-wing conservatives but even liberal democrats like Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell asked the White House to give more support to the embattled republics. "The U.S. would not be true to its national values if it did not line up foursquare in support...