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Although the Limited is the only legal target to date, other retailers are being challenged on their import records. Chinese dissident Harry Wu made a dramatic appearance at K Mart's annual meeting in Detroit to tell chairman Floyd Hall that the big discounter purchased 73 tons of men's rainwear from China Tiancheng, a company owned by the People's Liberation Army, instrument of the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. Faced with a similar allegation several years ago, K Mart issued a categorical denial. This time the retailer promised to investigate and sever connections to the company...
...Next Wu had his turn at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testifying that everything from paper clips to Christmas lights is being manufactured by unpaid convicts and then sold cheaply--and illegally--in America. MFN opponents accuse the Clinton Administration of turning a blind eye toward Beijing. Even George Weise, who heads U.S. Customs, the agency charged with preventing the import of prison-made goods, admits lamely that "we simply do not have the tools" to carry out that mission. Weise admits the agency is similarly tool-less in spotting mislabeled apparel imports, which amount to at least $2 billion...
...releasing some big albums this season, including The Carnival, the first solo release from Wyclef Jean of the Fugees, and Wu-Tang Forever, from the rap group Wu-Tang Clan. But when it comes to this summer's live performances, women are out in front...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Human rights activist Harry Wu, who spent 19 years imprisoned in China and is now a U.S. citizen, told a Senate committee that he can prove that U.S. companies are illegally selling goods produced by Chinese prisoners, and accused the Clinton Administration of ignoring the practice. Wu, who heads a group dedicated to exposing forced-labor in China's prisons, said the products made involuntarily by prisoners included office supplies, sport shirts with Playboy, Esprit and Arnold Palmer labels, auto parts for American cars, and even Christmas tree lights. President Clinton plans to renew China's most-favored...
...players vary in the quality of their performance, both from individual to individual and within the play itself. The main characters are generally strong: Nguyen is a disarmingly pathetic and likable Wu Min, providing a strong character foil for Tan's marvelously cocky portrayal of Little Jade (whose self-assured manner and sexual self-confidence provides many of the play's laughs). But Borey, as a perpetually quiet and responsive Hawk, might add more to the play by being a more participatory and active central character. He's usually hard to read, and his portrayal of an innocent reacting...