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Lacking the fanfare that Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela enjoyed last week, Chris Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong, nevertheless met a small but enthusiastic audience when he spoke yesterday afternoon in Science Center...
...speech, Patten discussed topics ranging from Hong Kong's significance to China's influence on the future of capitalism...
...Neither the three celebrities that have declared their intentions, nor former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten -- another potential candidate for mayor -- are anywhere near the top of early opinion polls. First in London?s heart is ?Red? Ken Livingstone, the extreme-left-wing ex-council leader whom Mrs. Thatcher ousted in the early '80s. Red Ken?s elevation to the new job would be an enormous embarrassment for Tony Blair, who has renounced the old-style socialism that his Labor colleague Livingstone still sticks up for. The election is set for late 1999 -- and if opinions stay the same...
...MURDOCH is an ardent supporter of a free press, as long as it doesn't cost him too much. Last week HarperCollins U.K.--a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp., which has considerable interests in China--suddenly dumped East and West, a memoir by former Hong Kong Governor CHRIS PATTEN that offers a frank and not always flattering assessment of the Chinese government. Though his editors were enthusiastic and though Patten signed a contract for $200,000, Murdoch took a dimmer view; a News Corp. statement said, "Murdoch did not agree with many of Patten's positions." Even though Macmillan...
...Murdoch is an ardent supporter of a free press, as long as it doesn't cost him too much. Last week HarperCollins U.K. -- a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp., which has considerable interests in China -- suddenly dumped "East and West," a memoir by former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten that offers a frank and not always flattering assessment of the Chinese government. Though his editors were enthusiastic and though Patten signed a contract for $200,000, Murdoch took a dimmer view; a News Corp. statement said, "Murdoch did not agree with many of Patten's positions." Even though Macmillan...