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...Wen Ho Lee's picture has been splashed all over the media [NATION, March 22], Congressmen have attacked the Chinese government, and Lee has lost his job because he came into contact with Chinese officials. Yet despite the hype, American officials have not pressed charges against Lee because they don't have enough evidence. We are ruining the life of a man who may be innocent, and we are attacking a country whose foreign policy has been defensive and nonaggressive with respect to America. Americans should stop and consider the situation before acting irresponsibly. J. BYRON WONG New York City...
Worse than being biased, your article is racist when it implies that Wen Ho Lee would spy for China because he is Chinese. Why would Lee, a Taiwanese by birth, help China reclaim Taiwan? Obviously, you have not learned from your mistake in World War II when you mistrusted a great many American citizens because they were Japanese or of Japanese descent. VINCENT LIM Singapore...
...Wen Ho Lee the 1999 Dreyfus of the U.S.? THI DO Kingsport, Tenn...
...Marshall waited until late last Tuesday night, when the media army had abandoned its post outside Wen Ho Lee's house, to visit his neighbor. He found Lee, the suspected nuclear spy for the Chinese, bewildered but stoical. "He said he was going to leave it in God's hands," Marshall recalls. "He doesn't believe he's done anything wrong and doesn't understand why he's been singled out. It's as if whatever the Fates decree, that's what has to happen...
Neither Marshall nor his wife Jean, both computer programmers in Los Alamos, N.M., who have lived next door to Wen Ho and Sylvia Lee since 1980, believe their friend is capable of doing what the U.S. government suspects: passing to China some of the most damaging nuclear secrets in U.S. history. "I've gone from shock to compassion to outrage," Jean says. "This just doesn't jibe with anything I know about Wen...