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...modernize before. Near the end of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1898, under the Emperor Kuang Hsu, the Chinese tried to imitate the Japanese Emperor Meiji's transformation of Japan, from feudalism in the last half of the 19th century. In the early days of Sun Yat-sen's Republican China, an effort to streamline the society with foreign help ended in a bitter failure that eventually turned China toward puritanical socialism. The Chinese, wrote Historian C.P. FitzGerald, "became disillusioned with the false gods of the West They turned restlessly to some other solution...
...gutsy, courageous decision," declared Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho, who will become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the 96th Congress convenes in mid-January. "An act of treachery," countered Republican Congressman John Ashbrook of Ohio, a leader of the conservative bloc on Capitol Hill...
Many opponents of the China deal rallied round Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who in his text for a televised reply to Carter said: "The President called into question this nation's treaty world." Goldwater credibility filed suit in throughout the federal court in Washington to test Carter's authority to end the 1954 defense treaty with Taiwan. Contending that no treaty can be terminated without a two-thirds vote by the Senate, Goldwater called Carter's decision "an out right abuse of presidential power...
...comparison, George W. Bush was nearly mute on what might have seemed an ideal issue for a Republican, commenting vaguely about the responsibilities of parents and movie theaters. It may be that his campaign decided that bashing Hollywood didn't work for Bob Dole in 1996. Or it could be that the entire subject is not particularly comfortable for a candidate who sat for 10 years on the board of Silver Screen Management Services Inc., a New York?based firm that financed more than two-dozen R-rated movies. "The Hitcher," one of its films for Home Box Office (which...
...Republican in upstate New York needs to raise money, he opens his front door, cups his hands in the autumn air, and shouts: "Hillary...