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Scrapbook One Step Forward, Five Steps Back Yongyi Song, the Dickinson College librarian whose plight was recounted on this page last week, was released by Beijing on Friday. Song had been...
...Gore also danced around his record on abortion with the artful formulation, "I have always supported a woman's right to choose...
...visit than by O'Laughlin's courageous witness...
...That fame has apparently not yet reached New Yorker foreign correspondent Mary Anne Weaver, nor the people who transcribe interview tapes for the magazine, nor the New Yorker's "vaunted" fact-checking department...
...10, coal miner Liu Zhilan attempted to submit a petition to Beijing authorities protesting such abuses...
...The New Yorker's comprehension turns out to have been no more clear than its knowledge of terrorism was sterling...
...And that short recession was not nearly so severe as those of say, 1974 and 1982, which Al Gore presumably should remember...
...On Monday, Jan...
...He was forced to drink salt water and severely beaten...
...But the most disgraceful performance came from Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters of California, who denounced O'Laughlin: "I am bewildered," Waters said...
...23, came word that authorities in Hebei province had arrested, on charges of subversive religious practice, five members of China's underground Roman Catholic church...
...Two Gore whoppers in particular struck THE SCRAP-book this week...
...24, news reached the West that an "Intermediate People's Court" in Eastern Turkestan had imposed death sentences on five members of the persecuted Uighur Muslim ethnic minority...
...Reno was unswayed by O'Laugh-lin's change of heart...
...Consider the rest of what was a typically busy week at the office for Communist despots in China—and for their cringing supplicants in the Clinton administration...
...I've committed to our hosts not to lecture on this subject...
...And appallingly, the once-solid Republican congressional support for Elian's right to stay in the United States has begun to erode...
...As Matthew Rees detailed in a Weekly Standard article last October, during Gore's eight years in the House, he had an 84 percent pro-life voting record, as tabulated at the time by the National Right to Life Committee...
...Not so fast...
...After serious prayer and reflection, I feel that to send the child back to a land steeped in fear would not let him grow to be the man he could be if he grew to manhood in freedom...
...Also on Wednesday, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China released details of two Chinese Falun Gong adherents' murders by police...
...Does this mean there's a thaw in Beijing...
...On Wednesday, Jan...
...But then he returned to his script, saying "I have always supported a woman's right to choose...
...That's too much work for any man alone...
...Among the detained were Han Dingxi-ang, bishop of Yongnian, who has already spent a total of 20 years in jail, and lay leader Wang Chengqun, who is partially paralyzed as a result of his last incarceration in a labor camp...
...He made statements like, "I have consistently opposed federal funding of abortions" and even went further, saying "innocent human life must be protected, and I am committed to furthering this goal...
...She was forced to clean the offices of the Zhoukoudian police substation—and died from breathing poison gas "while resting in the station's furnace room...
...Song had been imprisoned since a trumped-up arrest last August for "smuggling" research material on the Cultural Revolution...
...31 for participating in an illegal picnic lunch...
...it's not a clear, sterling network...
...of Murkiness The late American journalist Claire Sterling won international fame with her 1981 book The Terror Network, in which she demonstrated that many of the world's spontaneous-looking local terrorist outfits actually took their marching orders and got their ammo and training from the Kremlin...
...GOP members seem to have been more affected by credulous press fawning over the grandmothers' Castro-scripted U.S...
...Human rights came up in both meetings, Prue-her said...
...Gao Xianmin was arrested on Dec...
...The most egregious was Gore's preposterous claim that "the ClintonGore administration has ended the deepest recession since the 1930s...
...He died of heart failure...
...As if to confirm the soundness of O'Laughlin's judgment, Fidel Castro's minions immediately launched a propaganda assault against her, saying that Elian's "loving and heroic" grannies had been the victim of "lies, tricks, betrayals, humiliations, and an unhuman and despotic treatment" at the hands of the Dominican nun...
...This is fiction through and through...
...25, staff writers at the Nanfang Zhoumou newspaper in Guangdong province reported that their editor, Jiang Yiping, had been sacked by local Communist party offi-cials—for "political errors" that included publication of a feature story on the "decadent" Hong Kong action movie star Jackie Chan...
...This is an informal brotherhood we are seeing now, whose members can draw on each other...
...Yes, conscience must be a bewildering thing to the likes of Waters...
...Bradley knows this record well, and so he challenged Gore's evasion...
...In the course of an article on Osama bin Laden, Weaver interviews a former State Department official named David Long...
...To paraphrase Alice Roosevelt Longworth, if you don't have anything nice to say, e-mail it to Scrap-book@weeklystandard.com...
...Gore acknowledged that "early in my career I wrestled with the question" of federal funding...
...Dept...
...As the week drew to a close, new U.S...
...It became clear to me the grandmothers were not free to be grandmothers...
...Al Gore Whopper Watch It's not fair that Bill Bradley should have to single-handedly keep Al Gore honest...
...They were under duress," O'Laughlin told reporters...
...Elián, American Elián González's meeting last week in Miami Beach with his visiting Cuban grandmothers produced a surprise defection: Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, a Miami eminence in her own right besides being a pal of attorney general Janet Reno, decided after hosting the meeting at her home that Elián should stay in America, and not be sent back to his father in Cuba, as Reno and the Clinton Justice Department insist...
...Never in my wildest imagination would I think that a nun who was supposed to be a neutral party would undermine that neutrality...
...Weaver quotes Long as asking...
...According to the state-controlled Xinjiang Daily, all five were guilty of engaging in "separatist activities through illegal religious propaganda...
...26, the Beijing People's Daily published new rules promulgated by China's State Press and Publication Administration granting the Communist party monitoring and censorship authority over all Internet websites in the country—and banning the employment of journalists by those sites...
...On Jan...
...As Lawrence Lindsey pointed out in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal last week, the infamous recession of 1990-91 in fact lasted only two successive quarters, "the shortest period that meets the definition of recession...
...E-Mail THE SCRAPBOOK THE SCRAPBOOK is now reachable 24/7...
...Hardly...
...On Tuesday, Jan...
...Indeed, in 1979 he even voted against a Henry Waxman amendment authorizing federal funding for abortions in cases of rape and incest...
...On Sunday, Jan...
...Is Osama bin Laden the exclusive font of terrorist evil...
...ambassador Joseph Prueher told reporters in Beijing that he had had "very good" and "very dense" meetings with China's president, Jiang Zemin, and premier, Zhu Rongji...
Vol. 5 • February 2000 • No. 20
