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...nemesis Martin Lee, Hong Kong's most outspoken proponent of democracy. TIME's William Dowell reports that the recognition represents a dramatic shift in the White House treatment of Lee. "For years, former secretary of state Warren Christopher had what amounted to standing orders to brush Lee off onto lower-level State Department officials during his visits to Washington." Tung had hoped to counter what he said were unduly pessimistic predictions about the future of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong once it falls under Chinese rule. Giving court to one of the future administration's biggest critics could show...
...Weekly Standard, which is edited by Bill Kristol '73. However, this thoughtful, non-liberal voice is virtually ignored. Meanwhile, the American intelligentsia is so wedded to liberalism that it cannot understand anyone's choosing the elephant over the donkey, even though a majority of people (particularly in lower-level elections of late) often does...
Although few expect any prominent appointments to Clinton's second administration to come from Harvard, no one would be surprised by junior faculty members appointed to lower-level posts...
...will now be up to Karadzic to make sure lower-level Serb officials in Bosnia also go along with the peace plan. That may not be easy, since many of them are shouting defiance. He appeared on television Friday to tell his people, "We accept the peace." But on Saturday, thousands of Bosnian Serbs protested in and around Sarajevo, vowing to defend their turf...
...bureaucracy. They requested leave and hopped a commercial flight to Saigon to organize an unofficial rescue mission. Arriving at the embassy on April 22, they learned that orders were out for their arrest. They posed as French businessmen, holing up in an empty apartment found for them by sympathetic lower-level embassy employees and working the phones to round up Vietnamese to be smuggled out of the country...