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That's what some may have been left wondering after Catherine K. Huang '98, a former Miss Teen Delaware USA, resigned as Miss Boston only days after winning the title on March 23. By resigning the title, Huang gave up a chance at competing for the title of Miss America...
While some notable pageant winners have resigned from their titles under scandalous circumstances, Huang's reasons were entirely practical--she wants to attend medical school...
...next day, when a Democratic fund raiser named John Huang requested White House clearance for a Thai industrialist to have coffee with the President, no alarms went off. No one made much of the fact that Dhanin Chearavanont, 57, chairman of the CP Group, is believed to be the largest single foreign investor in China and an economic adviser to Beijing. When an aide to campaign czar Harold Ickes asked "if it would be problematic if this individual met briefly W/ POTUS," the green light came quickly from the NSC: "O.K. by Asia Affairs." Among the 11 NSC officials informed...
...probes are examining several paths down which they believe Chinese money may have flowed. A prime focus is the Lippo Group, the Indonesia-based conglomerate with major development projects in six Chinese cities. Its most famous former employee is Huang, the Commerce Department official turned fund raiser for the D.N.C., who stayed in regular contact with Lippo no matter what his occupation. Also under scrutiny are the CP Group of Thailand, headed by Chearavanont and represented in Washington by former Democratic fund raiser Pauline Kanchanalak, and San Kin Yip Group of Macau, a business partner of fund-raiser Charlie Trie...
Congratulations on your inspiring cover story on Deng Xiaoping, the heroic Chinese leader whose vision, guts, iron will and economic reforms helped modernize his country and ensure Asia-Pacific progress [THE NEXT CHINA, March 3]. History will remember Deng along with Emperor Shih Huang-Ti and Mao Zedong, statesmen whose human flaws should not detract from their many far-reaching achievements. Deng's success in reforming China has as its legacy Asian prosperity, free enterprise, peace and stability. WILSON Y. LEE FLORES Quezon City, the Philippines...