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...Photography Board: Lisa W. Clark '89 of Stoughton Hall and Belmont; David K. Eldan '89 of Wigglesworth and Culver City, Calif.; Frederick J. Nager '89 of Holworthy Hall and Tai-Pei, Taiwan; Hector I. Osorio '89 of Weld Hall and Queens, N.Y.; Robert G. Popham '88 of Lowell House and Ellicott City, Md.; Andrea L. Roberts '88 of Winthrop House and Newton; Adam Ruderman '87 of Dudley House and New York, N.Y.; J. Carter Vincent '89 of Wigglesworth Hall and Newton...
...meek appearance masked the fact that Larry Wu-Tai Chin was a master of deception. For nearly 30 years, Chin, 63, a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Peking, lived a double life. While working as a highly valued translator and analyst for the CIA, he also passed classified documents to the People's Republic of China. His duplicity earned him at least $300,000, and though he gambled much of it away, he had parlayed his take into real estate and other investments worth $700,000. Throughout his four-day trial, Chin insisted that he had only...
...when Henry Kissinger sought to arrange his now famous secret mission to Peking in 1971. That signal, however, was not their first clue that the U.S. was interested in improving relations with a Communist regime it had refused to recognize for more than two decades. Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, a retired CIA analyst on trial as a spy for China, last week testified that in 1970 he had passed to Peking a document containing a secret message from Richard Nixon to Congress outlining his intention to work toward rapprochement...
...bulldozer, white is the quintessential Yuppie-come-lately supercop, complete with a Beginner's Guide to Chinese Culture and Civilization to help him ride out the bumps. In no time flat, White conveniently manages to stumble on an international drug ring masterminded by the reigning Chinese Godfather, Joey Tai. White immediately jumps into action, tracking the drug king's every move with various illicit listening devices and tailing him via a Chinese rookie cop whom White has inserted as a mole in Tai's operation. What follows is a more than predictable series of cat-and-mouse games between White...
While some have charged that the film portrays Chinese-Americans unfavorably, The Year of the Dragon is no more discriminatory to Chinese-Americans than was The Godfather to Italian-Americans. Although Cimino occasionally goes overboard with the Tai group's criminal image--dressing them all in white suits with black ties is a bit excessive--he scrupulously places certain Chinese-American characters in positions of trust and importance--a chief example is White's successful TV anchorwoman-girlfriend, for example...