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...Attending doctors will order any such pregnancy terminated on the spot...

...Why couldn't we become friends...

...What follows, then, is just a partial update on what happens when an enormous Communist dictatorship is "welcomed into the community of nations...

...AND IN OTHER APPEASEMENT NEWS.Last Wednesday, August 9, hours before a Senate delegation led by Foreign Relations Committee chairman Joseph Biden was to meet with Jiang Zemin in Beijing, Chinese police finally released permanent U.S...

...The puzzle in question, titled— believe it or not—"Homonames," boasted innumerable clues like this: "add more lubricant," "tiny openings," and "scratched-up leather straps...

...Senator Biden says he's surprised to hear of Liu's reincarceration: "We had been told that he had been released...

...Clever, no...

...Taiwan did not delete anything," this man allows, "but Taiwan is very democratic so they don't care about anything...

...SUPPRESSION OF THE FALUN GONG...

...Perish the thought...

...resident Liu Yaping from prison confinement on trumped-up tax evasion charges...

...We recommend it to our readers...

...Biden also says he "totally and completely rejects" the notion that conflict between the United States and China is inevitable...

...What's an eight-letter barnyard epithet for "nonsense on stilts...

...ORGAN HARVESTING...

...They told of believers being beaten, shocked with electric truncheons and forced to undergo unbearable physical pressure...

...Lee will understand that," his Singapore publisher explains...

...But the Times had looked into this...

...And it had concluded that those readers were very much mistaken: "The newspaper has requested and received assurances from the puzzle editor and the puzzle creator, a veteran Times contributor, that no . . . suggestions about anyone's sexual orientation" had been hidden in the clues or answers...

...NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION...

...The Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately denounced Wang's testimony as a "vicious slander" based on "sensational lies...

...It seems that "a few readers" privileged to peek at advance copies of that same edition's magazine supplement had "said they perceived allusions to gay life" in—of all places—the crossword puzzle...

...So The Scrap-book wants it clearly understood that nothing pejorative is intended by the headline on this item...

...SPEAKING OF THAT SPY-PLANE INCIDENT...

...That report, slipping past the censors, has lately been posted on the website of China's leading journal, People's Daily...

...Word in Washington, incidentally, is that the Bush administration intends to appoint Biden's staff expert on China, Frank Jannuzi, to the National Intelligence Council, where he will serve as the nation's senior analyst on security issues related to Asia...

...Liu used his first hours of freedom in five months to get a haircut and have dinner with some of his relatives...

...Last Thursday, the Pentagon announced that it had forwarded a check to Beijing, in the amount of $34,576, as compensation for "some of the support that they provided to us during that period of time...

...for the names of celebrities commonly associated with gay culture—or rumored to be gay themselves...

...But the book has not yet been published by his friends in Beijing—because they haven't finished unilaterally rewriting it...

...So the mainland press that will be distributing the book is altering the text and doesn't see any reason to consult the author...

...The August 5 London Sunday Telegraph reported that officials in Guangdong province have ordered the impoverished mountain county of Huaiji to perform 20,000 more abortions and sterilizations before the end of this year...

...The machines will be used to test female villagers for unauthorized pregnancies...

...More Olympic Spirit Following last month's selection of Beijing as host city for the 2008 Olympic summer games, secretary of state Colin Powell predicted that the Chinese would henceforth receive "seven years of supervision by the international community to make sure that the Olympic spirit is kept very much in mind...

...In the August 6 Washington Times, Defense Department correspondent Bill Gertz confirmed another recent Chinese ballistic-missile-component sale to Pak-istan—in violation of multiple nonpro-liferation treaties Beijing has signed with Washington...

...For instance, 113 across asked for an eleven-letter phrase meaning "people who live next to a Y." Solution: "gymneighbors," i.e., that fellow who played Gomer Pyle on television back in the 1960s...

...Employees of the Huaiji government have had their salaries halved—to something like $35 per month—in order to pay for the purchase of new ultrasound equipment...

...But according to a July 31 story by John Pomfret of the Washington Post, proof of the practice had already appeared in a Jiangxi province newspaper, Today Family Weekly, which had investigated the sale of convicted murderer Fu Xinrong's kid-neys—by officers of the trial court that ordered him executed...

...As our readers know, The Scrapbook is determined and eager to support Secretary Powell in this mission...

...What's more, myriad of its answers turned out to be homonyms (get it...

...Unfortunately, though, so much Olympic spirit has burst out in the People's Republic this past week or so that we've hardly been able to keep track of it all...

...On the front page of the August 5 Washington Post, Pomfret and his colleague Philip Pan had this to report about Beijing's ongoing war against unauthorized breathing exercises: "Expanding its use of torture and high-pressure indoctrination, China's Communist party has gained the upper hand . . . according to government sources and Falun Gong practitioners...

...The Post expose remains available at www.washingtonpost .com/wp-dyn/articles/A33055-2001 Aug4.html...

...The Gertz report came just days after Colin Powell concluded a series of high-level talks in Bei-jing—and announced himself satisfied that bilateral cooperation on such subjects, interrupted by the spy-plane incident earlier this year, was finally back on track...

...Lee's version is insufficiently sycophantic towards the Chinese Communist party, apparently...

...T]he government for the first time this year sanctioned the systematic use of violence against the group, established a network of brainwashing classes and embarked on a painstaking effort to weed out followers neighborhood by neighborhood and workplace by workplace, the sources said...

...The phrase "fairy tale" refers, instead, to a most peculiar "editor's note" by means of which the New York Times recently reiterated its own ostensible policy against such slurs...

...the senator asks...

...His wife and son in Connecticut, both American citizens, haven't heard from him since, and still have no idea whether he is receiving proper treatment for the life-threatening aneurysm he's developed while in custody...

...FORCED ABORTION...

...Jannuzi is best known on Capitol Hill for opposing—as too provocative—a 1999 resolution commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre...

...Then—after Biden's photo-op with Jiang was done—Liu was rearrested...

...And . . . why exactly was it now necessary for the Times's standard-bearers to say so...

...We wonder why the Times felt obliged to lie about it...

...Smirky jokes about men and women of the homosexual persuasion, the paper announced on Sunday, August 5, are "a violation of the Times's standards...

...Lee Kuan Yew, longtime autocrat of Singapore and pro-China ideologist for the "Asian way" of single-party rule, is lately out with a second volume of memoirs, The Singapore Story...

...Two months ago, Wang Guoqi, a former Tianjin province police-department physician, told a congressional committee in Washington that he'd personally assisted in the extraction of black-market-destined human organs—corneas and skin, specifically—from more than 100 executed prisoners...

...I am sure Mr...

...CENSORSHIP...