Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressing Administration officials to hire Huang, identifying him as the "top priority" of the Riadys and the "political power" who advises them on "where to make contributions." But the personnel official who made the hire claims to have done so only because of Huang's Asian background; call it ethnic patronage. Even so, Huang already had remarkable access to Clinton. At MTV's Inaugural Ball, Clinton met privately with Huang and Lippo's deputy chairman James Riady. The three met again in fall 1995 to finalize Huang's move to the D.N.C...
...freedom to choose is the foundation of Western civilization, Hong Kong was taken in a very undemocratic way from China and was held for more than 150 years. And while Hong Kong is being given to communist rule, it is being done because the people of Hong Kong, the ethnic Chinese who are the inhabitants of this tiny island, want it to happen. True, the 99-year lease of the island was set to expire in 1997. However, everybody has sensed the feeling on the streets of Hong Kong for a long time: the people have wanted their little island...
They want to know what military threat NATO expansion is designed to counter, how it will strengthen stability in Europe, and whether U.S. lives will have to be risked to deal with "border, ethnic, nationalist and religious disputes" in Central Europe. "I'm not convinced we should be part of an alliance that says the U.S. should go to war to protect a couple little countries most Americans haven't heard of," says Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy...
...Ethnic lobbying groups such as the Polish American Congress had already begun flooding the White House and Capitol Hill with telegrams demanding that NATO enlarge. Bob Dole and the House Republican Contract with America backed expansion. But White House polls during the 1996 campaign showed that enlargement wasn't a litmus test for the 21 million Americans of East European descent. The poll Clinton paid more attention to showed that foreign policy successes improved his re-election chances. "The idea that Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall, Bush unified Germany, and Clinton will unite Europe sounded good at 1600 Pennsylvania...
...single witness could confirm that he was responsible." TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief Massimo Calabrisi reports that while Tadic may be small time, the evidence shows he is anything but innocent. As a result, today's sentence will most likely stick. "There is little question that the ethnic cleansing of Serb held Bosnia was organized at very high levels, of which Tadic was not a part. However, the only reason it was carried out was because there were people like Tadic who on the local level were willing to ethnically cleanse their towns of people they often knew...