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Wednesday morning Clinton formally welcomed Jiang in ceremonies on the South Lawn of the White House, after which the two men held a formal, 90 minute meeting in the Oval Office...
...State Dinner itself generated a small controversy when the Chinese rejected the White House's proposal to hold the dinner in a heated tent, with hardwood floors, on the South Lawn of the White House. The Chinese insisted on the more formal elegance of the East Room of the White House interior. The White House consequently had to curtail its guest list...
...read with concern that Chinese President Jiang Zemin is to make a state visit to the United States embellished by no less than a 21-gun salute and welcoming ceremonies with President Clinton on the South Lawn of the White House. I implore Harvard, scheduled as a stop on Jiang's itinerary, not to forget that Jiang is the official head of the thug government which killed and imprisoned thousands of peaceful demonstrators, many of them students, in and around Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, a day that will live in infamy...
...Philosophical? Well, that's what you get when you're able to show your guest an original draft of the Gettysburg address (which the history-mad Jiang can quote verbatim), and happen to have the National Symphony orchestra playing on your lawn. In this congenial atmosphere, the presidents' conversation apparently ranged across 4,000 years of Chinese history ? and the relatively puny 200-year American version...
...need an inspection to make sure it's safe. Many ultralights are elegant and airworthy; the plane featured in last year's movie Fly Away Home is a good example. But if you strapped a snowmobile engine and some plywood wings onto a lawn chair and got it to fly, the FAA couldn't stop...