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...stumbled badly last month when he proposed new restrictions on political parties and public protests as soon as China assumes control. The proposals themselves were not severe: amending current statutes so that demonstrators would be required to seek advance permission for the street protests that have become a regular Hong Kong ritual and barring political parties from accepting foreign contributions, as in the U.S. But clumsy writing and ominous references to "national security" stoked widespread alarm that more draconian gags and shackles lay ahead...
...lives of Tung and Lee will continue to intersect as both seek to ensure that Hong Kong survives its historic transition intact. "Martin is so stubborn," Tung says of his rival. Tung prefers a get-along and go-along strategy that will build up trust in Beijing. "It's only in that way that they will keep hands off," says a friend and political ally. Lee thinks that will not work with communists. "C.H. is a good man who may be forced to do evil," he says. So Lee intends to keep confronting China in the law courts. In fact...
...culture ministry, is immensely popular with the nation's youth, who want the government to ease restrictions on western media and laws mandating rigid adherence to traditional conduct. Nateq-Nouri, the current parliamentary speaker, has the backing of Iran's hard-line clergy, the military and merchants, who seek to limit such liberties. As officials tallied up the vote for release on Saturday, the presidential race seemed tight. But whoever wins, reports TIME's Scott MacLeod, Iran stands to eventually undergo changes that will alter its foreign relations. "Khatami has a proven track record for being an advocate...
...million loan to a G.O.P. think tank, ex-party chairman Haley Barbour (the think tank's head) denied knowledge of foreign backing. But a secret memo obtained by TIME shows that a year before Young Bros. Development-USA collateralized the 1994 loan, Barbour was advised of plans to seek overseas funds for the National Policy Forum. Last week the G.O.P. refunded $122,400 in Young Bros. campaign money, conceding its illegal Hong Kong origins. Democrats, smelling blood after months of battering for their fund-raising excess, are urging the return of the full $2.2 million. Most of that loan...