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Parody "Companies with distinctly American identities were targeted by protesters angry at NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. Kentucky Fried Chicken said three of its restaurants...
...Associated Press, May 11, 1999 China May Have Top-Secret Sanders Chicken Recipe By JEFF GERTH and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON, May 14 — Protesters who stormed ttaee Beijing Kentucky Fried CMdcem restaurants in the Chinese city I of Changsha last week may have walked off with a lot more than drumsticks, a Pentagon official said at a hastily called off-the-record briefing yesterday...
...What is certain is that timing of the leaks is particularly bad, given last week's remarks by General Tso, director of the Chinese chicken program...
...The Chinese are the world's number-three chicken power, but most of the Asian country's fare relies on "first generation" sesame-chicken technology, rather than the more advanced fried chicken available to the United States and its allies...
...There could be highly classified material," said Willie McCovey, director of Poultry Studies at the Brookings Institution...
...At midday, the White House sought to minimize the security risk "The information jeopardized is mostly 17- or 18-year-old 'extra crispy' technOlOgy," White House spokesman Joe Lockhart told reporters...
...Despite a lavishly funded testing program that has gone on for the better part of a decade, their own McNUggets remain "scarcely edible," according to Carnegie Endowment analyst Cesar Geronimo...
...Tte haul could include closely held secrets from the American chicken industry, possibly even Colonel Sanders's Secret Recipe, the source said...
...Up until last week, the Pentagon's biggest worry had been that China might be sharing its curried-chicken know-how with PakiContinued on Page A23...
...Kentucky Fried Chicken said three of its restaurants in the southern city of Changsha and one in Hefei in the east were closed after extensive damage Sunday by protesters...
...Others dispute Lockhart's contention, arguing that the overriding effort of Chinese espionage has been to close a 20-year gap in Chicken McNugget technology...
...We're talking about the next generation of batter here...
...Tso threatened to match the Western powers "thigh for thigh, breast for breast, drumstick for drumstick...
...Chinese laboratories have been baking "a pret-ty tasty extra crispy" since the Reagan administration loosened technology restrictions in 1987, Lockhart added...
Vol. 4 • May 1999 • No. 34
