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...story of Charles Yah Lin Trie might once have taxed the imagination of a Hollywood movie producer: A Taiwan-born man arrives in America empty of pocket but full of ambition. After working as a busboy in Washington, he opens a restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, befriends a future President of the U. S. and expands his business empire to the Far East. He becomes a top fund raiser for his old friend's party and then taps into a far-flung network of Buddhists for quick cash when the President gets into legal trouble. Eventually, he returns to Washington...
...Clinton completed his final round of Cabinet appointments last Friday, he appeared undaunted by the latest round of disclosures. He admitted that it was "clearly inappropriate" for Trie to escort Chinese weapons dealer Wang Jun through the White House in February. "We have to do a better job of screening people who come in and out of here," the President said. But Clinton noted with pride that so far the multiplying probes of the Administration "have spent $30 million or something, and there's not a single solitary shred of evidence of any wrongdoing on my part." Said...
...White House was not pleased that Trie had appeared as yet another dubious character in the drama just when disclosures about zealous fund raiser John Huang's activities seemed to be taking a holiday break. Trie, 48, has played a small but supporting role in Clinton's life for more than a decade. The two men met when Trie ran a Chinese restaurant located near the Capitol in Little Rock named Fu Lin (in Chinese, it can mean "enrich your neighbor"). Clinton became a regular at Fu Lin, which hosted an unusually generous luncheon buffet. A friendship sprouted, and Clinton...
After the President's election, Trie became a Democratic fund raiser and by 1995 was working with Huang, at that point a go-go money-maker for the Democratic National Committee, to boost the party's appeal among Asian-American donors. In January, Trie attended a D.N.C. finance-board breakfast at Washington's Hay Adams hotel, where party chairman Don Fowler asked the party's top 110 fund raisers to each raise $350,000 by Election Day. Rainmakers from Texas and Massachusetts balked at Fowler's demand, calling the pace unrealistic. But not Trie...
Backing up the Harvard scorers were Plutnicki, co-Captain George White and center Monnie Trout underneath The trie nabbed 17 rebounds to lead the Crimson domination of the boards Trout in his first start of the floor, rejecting two shots and making a steal...