Word: wu
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...LEAVING ON ANOTHER risky mission to China last month, human-rights activist Harry Wu offered Sue Howell, the assistant who was accompanying him, some advice on how to survive a Chinese interrogation. "Play it like a game," he said. "They insist you give them something. You resist, then give a little. But you get in trouble if you give everything at once or if you refuse to cooperate." Wu must now follow his own counsel, since the Chinese arrested him on that trip. But his words might also be useful to the U.S., whose relations with China seem to worsen...
...arrest of Wu, 58, is itself the latest source of conflict between the two countries. The son of a Shanghai banker, he was imprisoned in 1960 for criticizing the Soviet Union. After being released, immigrating to the U.S. in 1985 and becoming a citizen, he embarked on a crusade to publicize the nightmare of China's prison system. Using a hidden camera, he once sneaked into a Chinese tanning factory and filmed naked prisoners standing in vats of toxic chemicals. Last year, while he posed as a wealthy American searching for a kidney for a relative, the BBC filmed transplant...
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been invited to lead the U.S. delegation to United Nations International Woman's Conference in Beijing, has a diplomatic problem now that China has detained American human rights activist Harry Wu. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a solution. In an interview with The Washington Times published today, Gingrich said the U.S. should try to move the conference out of Beijing in protest. If not, he warned, the House might simply cancel funding for the U.S. group...
...Republic of China as the sole representative of the Chinese people. Making matters worse, Fischer says, was President Clinton's decision to grant a visa in May for a private visit by Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, which "provoked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries that Harry Wu's detention only intensified." Sectretary of State Warren Christopher told Fischer that the latest message from China -- a demand that Washington reaffirm the Nixon policy and ban further official Taiwanese visits -- was a message of possible reconciliation...
Since China will not allow Harry Wu's wife to visit theimprisoned American human rights activist, she thinks Hillary Clinton should stay home, too. Ching Lee Wu, who met with National Security Adviser Anthony Lake and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole separately today, said she was happy with Administration and congressional efforts to free her husband, who faces the death penalty on whatU.S. officials consider trumped-up espionage charges. But she said Mrs. Clinton, who plans to chair the United Nations International Woman's Conference in Beijing in September, would send the "wrong signal" if she made the trip...