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Scrapbook WAITER RETCH'S VINDICATION In a welcome instance of congressional oversight, a House Appropriations subcommittee requested a management review of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The...
...And I've been here since about 12:50 [Pacific time, roughly four and a half hours earlier...
...So I had to figure on how I was going to get home in one piece to get to the Community Center...
...One of them was at the day camp today...
...Tell us what happened...
...Brook: I had called my son, because I was leaving work today early, as it turned out, and I called him to tell him I was on my way home...
...An eminent group of American conservatives last week, under the joint aegis of the Heritage Foundation and the Project for the New American Century, issued the following statement on the defense of Taiwan, which should dispel any such fantasies in Beijing: The People's Republic of China continues to threaten military action against the democratically-elected government of Taiwan...
...At present, incredibly, both the State Department's chief Middle East negotiator and his deputy are members...
...My daughter is fifteen...
...The United States should also make clear that while it is prepared to accept any resolution regarding Taiwan's future status to which both sides voluntarily agree, the future of Taiwan must reflect the will of the people of Taiwan as expressed through their duly elected government...
...So I haven't seen her...
...No more...
...After last year's brouhaha surrounding Yasser Arafat's invitation, disinvitation, and reinvitation to visit the museum—an overture initiated by a Clinton administration official and pursued against the better judgment of the museum's director—the recommendations deserve close attention...
...policy, and American democratic ideals...
...So the bus driver got them out of there very quickly and moved them over to Northridge eark where they were there all day...
...Well, my son, number one, did not go today...
...A danger of politicization will always hang about an institution devoted to such a subject...
...He picked her up...
...Dealing as it does almost exclusively with Clinton administration officials and friendly "Sinologists," Beijing might have been under the illusion that Washington is of a single mind about Asian security...
...We pick up the broadcast at about 8:15 em., Eastern time...
...THE WAY WE LIVE NOW What follows is a partial transcript of the special CNN Late Edition Primetime with Wolf Blitzer that aired the evening of Tuesday, August 10, after day-long coverage of the shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, California...
...Alicia Brook: Okay...
...HATCH'S TRIUMPH There's nothing remarkable about finishing last, but don't tell that to Orrin Hatch...
...Such a commitment is consonant with our nation's interests and ideals, and will help ensure peace in East Asia...
...The national museum dedicated to its memory and study should be painstakingly insulated from politics...
...Brook: No...
...These findings vindicate Walter Reich, the museum director who resigned rather than lend himself to the Arafat caper...
...THE DEFENSE OF TAIWAN The Clinton administration's failed China policy—the diplomatic equivalent of a "kick me sign" on the backside—bore more fruit last week: a remarkably impudent outburst from Li Zhaoxing, China's ambassador to the United States, that "American politicians" have no business getting involved with Taiwan, which is "entirely China's internal matter...
...The review, recommending reforms, was published last week...
...So, obviously, at that point my heart just about dropped, and I was at least thirty miles away from the Valley...
...In fact, Hatch's showing had been "remarkable," and it was "gratifying we had this kind of support," the senator added...
...The time for strategic and moral "ambiguity" with regard to Taiwan has passed...
...But the particulars of that fiasco aren't finally the issue...
...The statement was signed by Elliott Abrams, Richard V Allen, Richard L. Armitage, William J. Bennett, John R. Bolton, William F Buckley Jr., Midge Decter, Edwin J. Feulner Jr., Robert Kagan, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, William Kristol, I. Lewis Libby, Edwin Meese III, Richard Perle, William Schneider Jr., Arthur Waldron, Malcolm Wallop, James Webb, Caspar Weinberger, Paul Weyrich, R. James Woolsey, and Paul Wolfowitz...
...I got home, and we came over here...
...Wolf Blitzer: Joining us now from Los Angeles is Alicia Brook...
...Actually, as a matter of fact, my daughter was already reunited with her dad...
...Blitzer: And did you have trouble reuniting with your daughter...
...Holocaust Memorial Council, 55 of whose 65 voting members are appointed by the president—out of day-to-day operations...
...And at about ten minutes later, he paged me and said, "Mom, there was a shooting at the Jewish Community Center...
...Indeed, even though he was ninth out of nine candidates who entered the straw poll, Hatch's campaign declared his showing to be proof he "can rapidly move up into the top tier of candidates...
...He would have been at a field trip...
...The Holocaust is a perpetually vexed matter, witness the existence of professional deniers that it ever happened...
...Congress should write into law institutional arrangements that put the museum where, as Reich notes, it always should have been: "off limits to any diplomatic manipulation...
...Or to put it another way, the only way he can go is up...
...But she said she didn't know at all at first what was going on...
...Failure to stand by Taiwan and live up to the spirit and letter of the Taiwan Relations Act in the present crisis can only exacerbate tensions and may well lead to serious miscalculation by Beijing...
...She's a counselor with one of the groups, and they were still on the property when everything happened...
...I've been here doing interviews...
...It has therefore become essential that the United States make every effort to deter any form of Chinese intimidation of the Republic of China on Taiwan and declare unambiguously that it will come to Taiwan's defense in the event of an attack or a blockade against Taiwan, including against the offshore islands of Matsu and Kinmen...
...In the end, of course, Arafat never showed for his misbegotten photo op (the cameras turned out to be busy that day—January 22, 1998—with the breaking Lewinsky scandal...
...But there was a lot of panic going on at the community center...
...To that end, the review by the National Academy of Public Administration urges strengthening the role of the professional director of the museum and keeping the board—the U.S...
...Hours after he brought up the rear at the Iowa straw poll (not counting single-digit returns for non-candidates Bob Smith and John Kasich), Hatch issued a press release that is a model of the let's-look-on-the-bright-side genre: "NEW CANDIDATE HATCH HAS SOLID IOWA SHOWING," the headline read...
...The review also underlines the inappropriate-ness of naming to the board State Department officials, with their obvious conflict of interest...
...I'm very grateful he stayed home...
...The senior senator from Utah, the release went on to explain, had "exceeded expectations considerably" with an "impressive showing...
...I got my son...
...Blitzer: How did you hear about what was going on...
...We urge the administration and leaders in Congress to make a clear statement of America's commitment to the people of Taiwan...
...Efforts by the Clinton Administration to pressure Taipei to cede its sovereignty and to adopt Beijing's understanding of "One China" are dangerous and directly at odds with American strategic interests, past U.S...
...If the people of Taiwan do not want to be united with the mainland until China becomes a democracy, the United States has a moral obligation and strategic imperative to honor that determination...
...She's the mother of two kids who attend the day camp at the Jewish Community Center there in the Valley in Granada Hills...
Vol. 4 • August 1999 • No. 47
