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...letter by Professor Ezra F. Vogel, director of the Fairbanks Center, that appeared on this page (Oct. 24) contains partial truths and even erroneous information. Your readers should be aware of the following fact, which can be verified in the Fairbanks Center's library...
...Democrat Robert Torricelli won last year's Senate race by 10 points. Whitman is also learning how perilous life is these days for moderate, pro-choice, pro-gay rights Republicans like herself. Only 67% of New Jersey Republicans rated her favorably in a recent poll. Her veto of a partial-birth-abortion ban alienated many conservatives in this highly Roman Catholic state. The Christian Coalition plans to distribute 1 million election guides reminding voters of her stance. The beneficiary of alienated conservatives may be Libertarian candidate Murray Sabrin, who is targeting right-to-life voters...
...food and stored bottled water because the well on her property had run dry. "We considered sending in a stray dog," says Terrance Gainer, director of the Illinois State Police, hoping that would distract her and calm her down. But then the police learned that she was not particularly partial to pets. Says Gainer: "If she'd just give me five minutes, I could talk her out. But she refuses to talk...
...prison labor is not unique to China; America uses prisoners to perform all sorts of tasks. In both of these cases, the Chinese model is more horrible than that of the U.S., but only by degree. As for religious freedom, many Islamic regions of China are given partial autonomy. The religion that is truly persecuted is Christianity, perhaps because it is often associated with the greatest humiliations of modern Chinese history: Western Imperialism, opium and broken treaties. China finally recovered the last pieces of territory taken from it by the West this July...
...stage for the statehouse triumphs was set in 1996, when organizations like the conservative National Right to Life Committee realized that no partial-birth bill was likely to get through Congress that year. The group set about drafting model bills for the states and providing information to affiliates nationwide. At the grass-roots level, activists organized prayer vigils and phone banks to persuade state legislators. The strategy has worked. Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the NRLC, believes the push has changed the nature of the abortion debate. "The question is now determining what are the parameters...