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...rhetoric, talk of "empowerment" and diatribes against patriarchy. The march that followed this year's rally included chants of "Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! the Peninsula has got to go!" and, more ad hominem, "Hey, Hey! HO, Ho! Kelly Bowdren's got to go!" I fail to see how these dismal dithryambs serve the cause of women's safety...

Author: By G. BRENT Mcguire, | Title: Confessions of an Iconoclast | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

...attempt to improve their dismal press, two senior White House officials and a foreign policy aide called in correspondents to put a bright spin on the President's performance last week. Clinton, said one official, "has been steady in his leadership in making slow progress, but real progress" on Bosnia. "It's important to pay attention to the President's rhetoric," said another. "He did not say the point of the bombing is to guarantee the safety of those enclaves. He was not trying to make that argument." But, the same official added, "we are trying to argue that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropping the Ball? | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...decades after his disgraceful flight from Washington and a number of televised ressurrections later, Nixon still believed that might, in this case economic might, makes right. Even more disturbing is the supposition that criticism of China's dismal human rights record will seem humorous in the year...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Rose Colored Glasses | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

Little wonder no one knows what U.S. policy toward China is these days. At the same time that Clinton Administration officials are threatening to curtail trade by revoking Beijing's most-favored-nation status because of China's dismal human-rights record, the Administration is quietly poised to approve one of the largest sales of U.S. military hardware and technology ever to the People's Liberation Army. The deal, which could be worth as much as $2 billion, involves gas turbine engines. The Chinese say they want to use them for jets, but some nuclear nonproliferation experts insist that Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confounded By the Chinese Puzzle | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...annual June 3 deadline is once again approaching, and predictably, the ultimatum is becoming less ultimate. Not that China has taken any steps to remedy its dismal record of engaging slave labor and persecuting dissidence; in fact, in the last few months, Jiang Zemin's regime has bullied prominent dissidents with a particularly gleeful abandon. At his Seattle summit with Secretary of State Warren "the Romulan" Christopher, Jiang struck a strident tone, warning the hapless Secretary to lay off China's internal affairs...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Or Else What, Bill? | 4/23/1994 | See Source »

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