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...ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country, a statesman is a man who lies from the comfort of home. Regarding China, American statesmen abound. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord denies vehemently that America is trying to contain China as it once did the Soviet Union. Our policy is one of engagement not containment, he insists. And Newt Gingrich says on Face the Nation that we should help the Chinese people undermine the Chinese government, then spends the next five minutes explaining that he did not really mean undermining...
Republican lawmakers unimpressed with Hanoi's efforts to account for American MIAs attacked President Clinton fornormalizing relations with Vietnam. At a House International Relations Committee hearing boycotted by Democrats, several GOP lawmakers alleged thatVietnamese officials are holding the remains of up to 400 U.S. servicemen. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord testified that there was no evidence to back up such a claim, and that Vietnam lacked an incentive to do so in any case. Even so, Committee Chairman Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.) threatened to withhold funds needed to open a U.S. embassy in Hanoi -- an option that Senate...
...reminds me of Hitler's attitude toward Austria. To help China grow up does not mean we have to agree to appeasement. History has proved that 21 million free people cannot be forced to submit to hegemonic demands. Taiwan should not be sacrificed to the big powers' "strategic interest." Winston Lynn Sydney, Australia
...woefully inadequate. Most of the controlled studies on estrogen therapy have been short-term and can shed no light on long-term risks. "I think the currently available data are extrapolated to excess with respect to heart disease," complains cardiologist David Herrington of Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
When a film makes more than $650 million at the box office, movie executives don't get as sick of it as ordinary people do. Which may explain why Paramount paid more than $1 million for the rights to WINSTON GROOM'S new book, Gump & Co., despite the fact that Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis have expressed but wan interest in taking part in a Gump sequel. The book, in stores in August, follows the life of Gump and son after 1980. While Groom insists the recent fracas over his lack of royalties from the original Gump film...