Word: listings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning, there was the List. Albright was always on it; during her four years as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., she had treated CNN, as she said, as the 16th member of the Security Council and generally proved to be the Administration's most canny foreign policy salesman. And Clinton loves grand symbolic gestures. "You show him a glass ceiling, and he'll pick up a rock," says a senior aide. Her gender was not enough to guarantee her the job, but it certainly secured her place on the List...
...authority on the struggles upcoming, such as NATO expansion and the transfer of Hong Kong to China. Later that evening she was host at a reception for family, friends, political colleagues, diplomatic officials, office seekers and the media elite. They showed up in two shifts because the guest list was so long. And everyone showed...
Whenever the list of Bill Clinton's Best Friends is put together, Webb Hubbell's name is always near the top. Clinton installed his golfing buddy and confidant as Associate Attorney General in 1993; at the Justice Department he could serve as the First Family's eyes and ears. Hubbell resigned in March 1994 amid allegations that he had bilked his clients and partners out of thousands of dollars at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he once worked with Mrs. Clinton. By August 1995, Clinton's close friend was in jail, serving 21 months for fraud...
...Zhang is in another kind of limbo. Still on China's list of wanted criminals, given only temporary sanctuary in the British colony, she has been forced to change her name and stay mostly in hiding, though now and again she mingles in street marches calling for the release of China's democracy activists. She is by no means free, even in Hong Kong. "The Chinese government knows everything I do," says Zhang. "My family back home has been warned several times that I must end my involvement in the democracy movement here." Soon after her escape, she applied...
...exiles as wanted criminals or illegal immigrants, and will not allow them to remain in Hong Kong. Officials there have chastised Hong Kong for admitting dissidents and have demanded Western cooperation in "returning them to justice." More recently Beijing has demanded that the colonial government hand over the list of dissidents still in Hong Kong. Says Albert Ho, a democratic legislator in the colony: "It is obvious these people will not be tolerated after the handover. They must disappear by the change in sovereignty or face persecution...