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...Vice President Al Gore's announcement that they will meet Friday with Tung nemesis Martin Lee, Hong Kong's most outspoken proponent of democracy. TIME's William Dowell reports that the recognition represents a dramatic shift in the White House treatment of Lee. "For years, former secretary of state Warren Christopher had what amounted to standing orders to brush Lee off onto lower-level State Department officials during his visits to Washington." Tung had hoped to counter what he said were unduly pessimistic predictions about the future of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong once it falls under Chinese rule...
According to Sheila Warren '98, a two-year staff member, Lighthouse published a fall issue early last semester but did not produce a winter edition...
...time to turn on the pressure from Congress. Aerospace lobbyists helped circulate one letter for House members to sign and another for Senators, which urged then Secretary of State Warren Christopher to lift the arms-sales ban. The arms industry, which contributed more than $10.8 million during the 1996 campaign season, had no problem collecting signatures. The 78 Representatives and 38 Senators who signed the letters received more than $1 million from PACs controlled by Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas and the major subcontractors for the F-16 and F/A-18. The million-dollar letters jolted Christopher. He had paid little attention...
...Dave, whatever happened to gear ratios? This new GM-speak can strike outsiders as numbingly programmatic. At GM's technical and design center in Warren, Michigan, for example, the walls are a marketspeak mural of arrows, block charts, one-word product descriptions and macro boxes of jargon like "needs target," "needs profile," "benefit focus" and "reason for being." Go inside GM's design studios, and its artists work under Brave New World banners exhorting them to remember what their 2000-era cars and trucks are supposed to represent. Flying above one such future vehicle...
...seeing a similar survey of the tie tacks or pinkie rings preferred by Washington's most powerful men. Surely you can find some way to define this remarkable woman's intelligence without resorting to jewelry. I'm a lot more interested in her brains than in her baubles. JILL WARREN LUCAS Sanford, North Carolina...