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Scrapbook Back to New York for Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo, the secretary of housing and urban development, has been a busy man recently. In just the past six weeks, he's threatened to sue the gun...
...Haddad: "So, you don't think it's appropriate for CNN to bring him back...
...Later in the day, Cuomo's wife, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, spoke at a Democratic party fund-raiser in New York and cheered her husband's move against Giuliani...
...The RNC provided the usual focus-group inducements to the par-ticipants—$50 and dinner...
...Now the NHL has forced Prospal to take a series of "diversity classes" as punishment for his insensi-tivity...
...And even Cuomo's own general counsel at HUD can't offer a forthright defense of the action, saying only that it "may be legally defensible...
...Cuomo's action...
...Once Cuomo moves off the government payroll, will the Clinton and Gore campaigns give him his back pay...
...Says William Triplett II, co-author of the recently published Red Dragon Rising: "On her watch a potentially hostile power penetrated the American government at the highest level...
...Xiong could potentially identify the other Chinese donors...
...At last week's RNC meeting in San Jose, the party brought together 14 working-class Hispanics for an hour-long focus group to discuss a Dick Armey health-care proposal...
...Either Congress or attorney general Janet Reno could greet Xiong with a subpoena when he arrives in Washington...
...Last May, we reported on the Republican National Committee's Cinco de Mayo celebration, which included the hiring of three sombrero-wearing guitarristas to serenade partygoers in front of the party's Washington headquarters on Capitol Hill...
...The facts of the case are as follows: On December 21, Cuomo announced at a New York State Assembly hearing that HUD would take control of the homeless program, charging the Giuliani administration with having "politicized" the way the program's grants were being awarded...
...During a game against the Montreal Canadiens in December, Prospal called Canadiens defenseman Patrice Brisebois— gird yourself, Delicate Reader—a "frog...
...24 to meet with Pentagon officials...
...No Stereotypes, Please, We're Republicans It's no secret that the Republican party has made "outreach" to minorities a priority...
...Ng has since fled the country, and Middleton has taken the Fifth...
...Xiong could reveal what relationship Gore had with Hsia and Sioeng...
...The Xiong Show A unique opportunity will arise next week for Congress to resolve some controversies involving Chinese military intelligence...
...Congressional Republicans are crying foul over Cuomo's insertion of HUD into the New York Senate race, but it doesn't look like he'll be around to answer their questions...
...he's either a candidate or he works for CNN . . . as a commentator...
...Of Frogs and Men If you thought Major League Baseball overreacted when it sentenced John Rocker to the therapist's couch for bigotry, consider the treatment meted out to Vaclav Prospal, a forward for the ottawa Senators, by the National Hockey League...
...Xiong has been intimately involved in China's dealings with the Clinton administration, ranging from the illegal financing of the Democratic National Committee to the theft of nuclear secrets from America's laboratories...
...So it couldn't happen to a nicer guy...
...oh, and in the getting-past-stereotypes department, the party chieftains provided one other thing: a mariachi band...
...As if that's not enough, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager was, until recently, a regional HUD director in New York, reporting to Cuomo...
...Calling Xiong before a federal grand jury would be a breach of protocol, of course...
...General Xiong Guang-kai, deputy chief of the general staff for the Chinese army, is coming to town Jan...
...The Scrap-BOOK has learned that Cuomo will be leaving HUD no later than May, having told his closest associates he plans to return to his native New York...
...Not only did she not stop it, at best she bungled the investigation of how it happened and why...
...Of course beating Brisebois bloody would only have cost Prospal five minutes in the penalty box...
...He's been less explicit about his exact plans, but they're not hard to figure out: get Al Gore elected president (Cuomo was spinning reporters at the January 5 debate in Durham, New Hampshire), get Hillary Clinton elected senator, and get himself elected governor in 2002...
...Another of Xiong's subordinates told Chung not to worry about taking the money because the Chinese military was already pouring money into the DNC through other conduits...
...FOUHY: "At this point, I'm prepared to say it would be inappropriate...
...Macao criminal syndicate figure Ng Lapseng, a business partner of Chinese military intelligence, entered the United States carrying large bundles of cash, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...But Xiong is the man who once threatened to use nuclear weapons against Los Angeles...
...Even the New York Times has tagged Cuomo's move "an abrupt and extreme step," adding that Giuliani was "within his rights to see politics behind Mr...
...As RNC chief of staff Tom Cole explained: "If we can get past stereotypes and get to issues that matter to people, party doesn't really matter much...
...Here are some of the issues about which Xiong could be questioned: According to sworn testimony given by Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung, one of Xiong's subordinates told him that Beijing wanted the Clinton-Gore ticket reelected in 1996, and then gave Chung $300,000 to make it happen...
...Congress's interest is understandable, but Reno could benefit, too...
...In just the past six weeks, he's threatened to sue the gun industry, thundered against Fannie Mae for refusing to knuckle under to his demands for privileged information, and seized $60 million in New York City housing funds that would otherwise have been doled out by Mayor Rudy Giuliani (i.e., Hillary Clinton's opponent...
...Xiong may know where Ng's cash went...
...I cross the line when I get into the personal attack, my culture, my race, my sexual preference, my personal failures...
...I think it's gotten to the point where Pat doesn't really want to come back and it probably wouldn't feel appropriate to anybody...
...Brisebois whined to the press about it...
...Moments after the hearing ended, Cuomo assured reporters there was nothing political in his action, but that, yes, "Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to be the next senator from New York...
...In the Crosshairs It looks like CNN won't be keeping Pat Buchanan's Crossfire chair warm for him...
...On nearly all of these visits, Ng met at the White House with Clinton fund-raiser Mark Middleton...
...During his infamous visit to the Buddhist temple in southern California, Al Gore sat between Maria Hsia and Ted Sioeng, identified by the CIA as Chinese agents...
...History is not going to be kind...
...Now the effort is being expanded...
...Here's Beth Fouhy, one of CNN's top producers, being interviewed last month by Tammy Haddad on a show called The First Producer's Club, on America's Voice cable channel: FOUHY: "We love Pat Buchanan— there does get to a point, though, where probably he looks a little silly and we look a little silly with this back and forth quality...
...Xiong may know what if any favors were done to deserve this support...
...I do think that it confuses CNN's audience to see him hosting a show and then the next day, being the subject of news coverage as a candidate...
...It's too bad Cuomo won't be interrogated on the Hill, particularly when it comes to explaining why he seized the $60 million...
...Talk about my stickhandling, my defense, my checking, my skating," says NHL diversity consultant Zack Minor...
Vol. 5 • January 2000 • No. 18
