From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #56 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Thursday, January 29 1998 Volume 02 : Number 056 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:16:34 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Allies back Clinton in Public, Worry in Private (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Reuters New Media Wednesday January 28 9:34 AM EST Allies Back Clinton in Public, Worry in Private By Paul Taylor, Diplomatic Editor LONDON (Reuters) - In public, allied governments are rallying around President Bill Clinton, saying his entanglement in a sex scandal is not affecting his conduct of foreign policy. They cite consultations with key European and Middle Eastern allies on possible military action against Iraq as evidence that Clinton is actively engaged in meeting key policy challenges. But privately, European and Arab officials are concerned that Clinton may be unable to provide strong leadership on other issues, especially where he risks clashing with the U.S. Congress. These include forcing the pace of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, providing financial aid to Asia's battered economies, working for peace in Northern Ireland and easing sanctions on Iran. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Clinton's staunchest ally, expressed sympathy Tuesday for the embattled president, who has denied allegations of a sexual liaison with a White House intern in her 20s. Blair's spokesman said the prime minister had told Clinton in a telephone call that he had been following events in Washington and "he was thinking of him." The spokesman described it as an expression of support. Blair, current president of the 15-nation European Union, is going ahead with plans to visit Washington next week. French President Jacques Chirac, whose relations with the United States have sometimes been tense, has also rallied to Clinton's defense, saying the American president's authority is unchallenged. Among European leaders, only Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini appeared to question whether Clinton could remain in office. "It is not tolerable in the United States, and I don't think it is tolerable in other countries, that the highest government and state official makes statements which do not correspond to the truth," Italian media quoted Dini as telling Italian journalists in Brussels. However, he said he did not believe the president was guilty of lying. Arab diplomats and media have expressed dismay that the scandal over Clinton's alleged relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky could distract him from putting pressure on Israel to respect its obligations to withdraw from Palestinian territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's communications chief, David Bar-Illan, played down suggestions that the sex scandal would deflect U.S. efforts to drive forward Middle East peace talks. "I don't think this will make any real difference expect perhaps it will cause a slight delay in moves on the part of the administration," he told Reuters. "I think the mechanisms put in place previously...will continue to push the process forward." Some officials in the Gulf are already talking in terms of U.S. foreign policy under the next president, but they expect little change if resolutely pro-Israeli Vice-President Al Gore should take over. "From the political point of view, regarding the Middle East, Clinton has been the president who has helped Israel more than any other president," said one Gulf Arab official who asked not to be identified. "The foreign policy of the United States will not change a lot between one person and another," the official said. "People thought that when Clinton comes he will be less harsh on Iraq. He was more harsh." Arab commentators are not alone in fearing that Clinton might use a military strike against Iraq to deflect public attention from his domestic problems. Independent-minded British Labor parliamentarian Tam Dalyell asked the government in the House of Commons on Monday: "May I ask if there is concern...in the present febrile atmosphere in Washington that we are not going to start into what was somewhat indelicately called in the Arab press 'the war of Clinton's penis'." The Irish Independent newspaper quoted an adviser to Prime Minister Bertie Ahern as voicing disquiet over the impact of Clinton's troubles on the Irish peace process. "We had access any time we needed it. Bertie Ahern could ring up and be sure of getting through at any time," the aide was quoted as saying. "His (Clinton's) commitment was total. He assured us that if we were getting near the completion of the peace process he would always be available and so would every facility and everyone at the White House." Reuters Limited - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 11:19:15 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Re: Clinton = Una-Banger According to Rush Limbaugh, the source on this one is none other than Head Toe-Sucker, Dick morris, clandestinly back at work for Clinton. On Jan 27, Bill Vance wrote: >Heard on Michael Reagan's Talk Show: Someone this morning was floating one >of those, "Trial balloons", to see if they could get a measure of >forgiveness for Clinton. What did they try? That the reason that he's the, >"Una-Banger", is that Hillery is a Lesbian! While there _have_ been certain >possible indications, like the crowd she hangs with etc., this just gets >wilder and weirder. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:32:56 -0600 From: Chuck Scanland Subject: Re: Clinton = Una-Banger See my sig below. With friends like these... At 11:19 AM 1/28/98 PST, Bill Vance wrote: >According to Rush Limbaugh, the source on this one is none other than Head >Toe-Sucker, Dick morris, clandestinly back at work for Clinton. > >On Jan 27, Bill Vance wrote: > >>Heard on Michael Reagan's Talk Show: Someone this morning was floating one >>of those, "Trial balloons", to see if they could get a measure of >>forgiveness for Clinton. What did they try? That the reason that he's the, >>"Una-Banger", is that Hillery is a Lesbian! While there _have_ been certain >>possible indications, like the crowd she hangs with etc., this just gets >>wilder and weirder. > > >- > > > ================================================================ "None of what I'm about to say is necessarily a fact, but let's assume, O.K., that his sexual relationship with Hillary is not all it's supposed to be, let's assume that some of the allegations that Hillary -- sometimes not necessarily being into regular sex with men -- might be true..." Dick Morris, on KABC radio in L.A., 1/27/98 - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:16:53 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Remember those 2000 AK47's smuggled into California - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- - ------------------------------ From: Gary Gerlach Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:53:47 -0800 Subject: CAS: FW: Ref your Clinton mail: Read this & weep I received this article as part of a reply to the short Clinton scandal discussion 2 days ago. Especially to each of those who replied, please read the following and provide your own comments. The facts stated here are acknowledged by the US Dept. of Commerce as correct, without further comment. Gary Gary C. Gerlach, Ph.D. E-mail: ggerlach@oriongroup.com Orion Group (USA), Ltd. E-mail2: ggerlach@stanford.edu 4826 Rio Vista Ave. Tel: 1.408/554-1685 San Jose, CA 95129 USA Fax: 1.408/554-1761 International Systems Engineering (Excerpted from: The Sunday Telegraph (London, April 30, 1997) In the last election President Clinton and the Democratic National Committee received huge, thinly laundered contributions for foreign sources arranged by the DNC's chief fund-raider John Huang. Huang worked for the Riady's, the owner of Lippo Hong Kong and Indonesia. The bottom line, the Lippo Group has shown extraordinary interest in getting Clinton elected. Let's see who and what's behind the curtain. First, a routine story hints at a larger picture. In New York City, a company named Standard Forex had invited dozens of Chinese immigrants, most seniors to invest in various futures markets. Instead of investing the money, they simply pocketed it, which bilked the senior's life savings. Lawsuits were filed, but criminal prosecution by the Justice Department went nowhere. There were elements of sophisticated organized crime present and 50% of Standard Forex was owned by company called China Venture Techno International. China Venture was at least in part owned by agencies of the People's Republic of China. The name associated with China Venture Tech .... LAO YUN YI. Disturbed by elderly immigrants losing their life-savings, Randolph Quon, an American child of Chinese immigrants, had worked in mainline China for Lao Yun Yi, at the First Shanghai company that Lao Yun Yi owned. Yi told Quon, there's nothing to be worried about, that there will be no criminal prosecution of him because they have a special channel to Washington to a high decision-making circle. He's immune and has access to the top and that he's one of the "Princelings." Who's involved with Standard Forex? LAO YUN YI, CHEN WEILI, and DEN NANG ... Lets start with LAO YUN YI, He's Director at First Shanghai and its parent company, China Venture Tech, one of the largest enterprises in China. LAO's father -- LAO SUN, Director of Intelligence LAO's boss -- CHEN WEILI, Chairman of First Shanghai CHEN's father -- CHEN YUN who ran China's economy during the Seventies DENG NANG -- Owns major shares in First Shanghai DENG's father -- DENG XIAO PING ... the late Supreme Ruler of China DENG YUNG -- DENG XIAO PING's daughter who wrote the best selling biography of her father DENG YUNG'S husband -- HE PING, equipment commander of the People's Liberation Army, of PLA and general manager of a company called Poly Technologies. WANG JUN -- Head of China International Trust and Investment Corporation that owns Poly Technologies, Norinco and others. WANG JUN's father-- GENERAL WANG ZHEN - Implemented the Tianemen square massacre. The pattern: all of the Princelings have the right parents and they all do business with each other. Throughout Chinese history there has been no official mechanism for a change in power, a power struggle is inevitable. At the same time, family connections are paramount and the Princelings are the natural heirs. Now enters -- WAN JIN NAN. Wan is known here in the states as a go-between the White House and the Chinese people and the Lippo Group. The Lippo Group has been presented as just another financial conglomerate, one that traded campaign contributions for a few political favors. But the Lippo group is a FRONT for much more malevolent force ... the new leadership of China. WAN's name? You know him as JOHN HUANG. It has now been revealed that US security agencies and the Justice Department criminal divisions have an ongoing counterintelligence investigation that included JOHN HUANG and China. And it turns out that this has been ongoing for years. It also turns out that US counterintelligence agents and the FBI discovered Chinese efforts to interfere in American campaigns since as early as 1991. In 1992, shortly before the election of President Clinton, Lippo Hong Kong was overextended. In search of liquidity MOCHTAR and STEVEN RIADY, Lippo's owner, offered shares of its prize possession, the Hong Kong Chinese Bank. In a move that was puzzling to market analysts, China Resources Holding Company purchased 15% of the shares at a discount rate. Shortly thereafter, Clinton was elected and the Lippo Group quickly demonstrated their White House access -- a revolving door of private meetings between President Clinton and the RIADY's (who are ethnic Chinese) and JOHN HUANG (Wan Jin Nan). In June of 1993, China was awarded MFN status. One month later, China Resources raised their stakes in Hong Kong Chinese Bank to 50%, but this time they bought in at 50% over the stock's value, delivering a massive kick-back to the RIADY'S. (The Riady's have now fled the country.) The question is, who are the Riady's new partners? China Resources, or China Resources Holding Company, actually is under the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade. Again, one of the Chinese characteristics is the creation an ostensible company, but in fact they are ALL CHINESE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. But they do create these, quote companies just for dealing with the West. The vice-president of China Resources is a People's Liberation Army officer. Then American Investigator learned that STEVEN RIADY, the Lippo Chairman holds an official position in Beijing as a Hong Kong Economy Affairs Advisor. But what does the Chinese connection really mean to the United States? Why go to all this trouble to set up a link between the President and the Princelings. Some of the answers are next. AUTOMATIC ACCESS Since taking office the Clinton administration has been criticized for what some consider tactical blunders in dealing with the Peoples Republic of China or the PRC. The late RON BROWN, ;Clinton's Secretary of Commerce= approved the sale of two satellite systems to the PRC that is to be used in China's vast military forces known as the Peoples Liberation Army or the PLA (China has an active army of 3 million soldiers and since 1989 China's annual military spending has tripled. ) GENERAL HE PING, who is the son-in-law of DENG XIAO PING (former Supreme Ruler of China) handles the arm's market -- the small arm's market in the US. That means rifles, hand guns, and bazookas. GENERAL HE PING is part of the same group, China International Trust & Investment Corp. and Poly Technologies and oversees the arms industry. Poly Technologies is a company started by the Chinese government which is actually under the general staff department of the Peoples Liberation Army. Since the beginning of Clinton's presidency, there has been a mind boggling EXPORT OF MILITARY TECHNOLOGY to Red China with U.S. government approval. Michael Ledeen, a State Department official says, "The issue is not whether the Chinese have bought American foreign policy. What's wrong is the fact that WE ARE ARMING CHINA. China. From the Air Force's advanced F-16 fighter jets, to technology for building long-range cruise missiles, to Cray supercomputers for weapons development, the Clinton administration has given China everything it wants. Even the technology to manufacture its own advanced Global Positioning Systems has been given to the People's Liberation Army. GPS is the key to the most accurate targeting systems for cruise missiles and other advanced weapons and will guide them accurately to Los Angeles, for example." Charles Freeman, a senior American diplomat told the London Telegraph of a private meeting with Chinese military officials in which they asserted that America would not risk the destruction of Los Angeles to defend Taipei. It was a ludicrous threat, but an alarming guide to the new mentality. February 2, 1996, the federal government issued IMPORTATION permits for a multimillion dollar shipment of more than 100,000 semiautomatic weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition. The permits were for a company called China Jiang An to deliver these arms made by Norinco and Poly Technologies. Four days later at the White House, President Clinton met with WAN JUN, Chairman of the Chinese government owned conglomerate that owns Norinco and Poly Technologies. Wang was taken to the White House by CHARLIE TRIE, a Little Rock restaurant owner that had helped raise hundreds of thousand of dollars for the DNC. A week before this meeting US authorities had confirmed that the Chinese had just shipped M-11 cruise missiles to the terrorists supporting the anti-American nation of Iran. The day before the meeting with Clinton the US learned that our Chinese trading partners had illegally delivered ring magnets to Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. (American Investigator Thursday February 20, 1997, NET Network) Clinton said he didn't know WANG JUN until the White House meeting and didn't discuss business with him. (Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock, March 14, 1997) WAN JUN attended a reception at the White House on February 6, 1996 after meeting with RON BROWN on the same day. At that time he is alleged to have given two manila envelopes containing $639,000 to Clinton's defense fund. Clinton's attorney's later announced that donations of $600,000 did not meet the guidelines and that they would return the money. (Washington Times - - - Gene Crocker, PhD, CA) Recently the Washington Weekly, published in its March 24, 1997 the network of who's in the Chinese Connection. Beginning at the top: PEOPLE's REPUBLIC OF CHINA PEOPLE's LIBERATION ARMY WAN JUN -- (Chairman China International Trust Inc. Norinco, Poly Technologies) --Father was General Wang Zhen -- Tianemen Square Massacre CHARLIE TRIE -- close personal friend of Clinton, and a member of the DNC National Finance Board CHINA RESOURCE HOLDING CO. -- (Run by the Chinese military intelligence) LLOYD BENSON -- former Secretary of the Treasury AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP JOHN HUANG -- (Also Wan Jin Nan, worked as a senior Commerce Department official), one of the principal money funnels for the Lippo Group), and exempted from an FBI security investigation (required by law for all foreign born nationals in that position.) DR. CHIAO JEN WANG. Gave $400,000 to the DNC and Clinton, and was appointed to the 25 member "President's Export Council." LIPPO GROUP -- Client of former Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor **KENNETH STARR** -- Client -- China International Trust and Investment Corp. MOCHTAR RIADY (ethic Chinese) -- Head of the Indonesian Corp. called Lippo Group JIM RIADY -- Received a $900 million dollar letter of credit from Import - - -Export Bank ROBERT RUBIN - Current Secretary of the Treasury, Coral Reinsurance and ADFA are clients of Treasury Secretary STEPHENS-WORTHEN BANK purchased by Riady's JIM GIROIR, Former Head of Rose Law Firm, brokered ventures between Tyson Food and China WEBSTER HUBBELL - Received a retainer of $250,000 from Lippo after he resigned. ALABAMA SHIP BUILDING LONG BEACH NAVAL STATION BCCI CLINTON * KENNETH STARR: Starr's highly placed client is the China International Trust and Investment Corp. (CITIC), a ministry level corporation owned by the Chinese government and reporting directly to the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Chairman of CITIC is WANG JUN, of Clinton fund-raising fame. Star has continued to represent CITIC and be paid by it, all the while pretending to investigate Clinton. (Strategic Investment March 97) HENRY A. KISSINGER, ;Former Secretary of State= is a key advisor to corporate leaders seeking to expand US, China Trade Relations. He has also advised the Indonesia Lippo Group, lined with the DNC scandal. Mr. Kissinger is known as "Mr. China." After the Tianemen Square massacre of pro-democracy students, Mr. Kissinger publicly defended Beijing's action against the demonstration. The $26 billion American International Group, a major Kissinger client is a leading organizer of the multimillion-dollar lobbying campaigning by the newly formed Business Coalition for US China trade. (Boeing, Motorola, General Motors, GE and IBM) ALEXANDER HAIG ;Former Secretary of State= .. also is advising both American companies and the Chinese government's maritime shipping company, including COSCO, (China Ocean Shipping Company), in fact Haig is an honorary senior adviser. Haig's spokesman said that Haig is paid a minor honorarium. "Minor Honorariums" paid to other former senior US officials by Communist China have been reported to go as high as $1 million for just a visit. Haig is known to have visited China many times since he became Cosco's employee in 1993 (Washington Times, Tuesday, March 25, 1997 and Gene Crocker, PhD (CA) WAN JUN: Chairman of the China International Trust and Investment, and COSCO heads the companies that were implicated in a scheme to smuggle 2,000 illegal Chinese-made weapons into Oakland CA. (Norinco and Poly Technologies. COSCO, a subsidiary of the China Ocean Shipping Co. is the first shipping company owned by the Beijing government to receive a FEDERAL LOAN GUARANTEE under a 40 year old Transportation Department program designed to help American shipyards win business. The RIADY's: Less than two months before the 1996 presidential election, Bill Clinton flew west and declared more than a million acres of southern Utah land off-limits to coal mining by creating a "national monument." It was a bold photo-op, designed to win environmental votes. But it may, in fact, have been much, much more than that. It may also be the first concrete instance in which the growing Lippo banking scandal corrupted American interests and tilted American foreign policy toward Indonesia and China. Turning Kaiporowitz in Utah into a "national treasure" virtually hands Indonesia and China, a clean coal cartel at a time when the US needs such coal to meet the strict ;environmental= requirements. How? Well, the thread is long and complicated but it all seems to start with Lippo and Riadys in Indonesia and China's Fujian Province ends up with the president's signature on the executive order forever locking up $1 trillion of low-sulfur coal. ( The Washington Times Friday, April 11, 1997) And now Long Beach. According to Sen. Strom Thurmond, "The Chinese Ocean Shipping Company has been a tenant of the Port of Long Beach for approximately 15 years. The Naval Station Long Beach and the naval Hospital Long Beach were designated for closing in the 1991 round of Defense Base Closure and Realignment. The City of Long Beach was recognized by the Department of Defense to prepare a reuse plan. The Navy is still engaged in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of the environment impacts. The City and the Port want to enter into a lease with Cosco. There is ample time available for a national security review before the property leaves Navy ownership. Additionally several Senators have written to the Department of Defense requesting a security review of the proposal to lease space at the former Naval base to COSCO." (Senator Strom Thurmond Letter to Gerald Mueller, WI., April 1, 1997) Starting this spring, the Chinese government's wholly owned transportation conglomerate, China Ocean Shipping Co., will begin leasing the site of the Long Beach Naval base. Groundbreaking will later begin on building the proposed terminal, which is to be fully equipped with "six post-Panamax gantry cranes, capable of reaching across at least 18 rows of containers." According to the Port of Long Beach, the facility is being designed to accommodate Cosco's new fleet of ships which carry 5,250 containers measuring 20'x8'x8'. The City of Long Beach is spending a reported $200 million dollars to provide Cosco with "a two-unit dockside rail yard to handle Cosco's inter modal shipments to the US Midwest, Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard. With China's historic prowess at opium production and export, one has to at least consider the tempting possibilities offered by such a dedicated terminal for organized heroin smuggling into the US. Relevance asked the Long Beach customs Office if they could reasure the public that it would be safe from smuggling. We were told by one information officer, "There's no way we can reassure you -- there's no way we can check all the containers that come in here ... we've had government cutbacks, so we don't have as many inspectors as we use to." The spokesperson added, "We get 60 ships per day here, and the larger ships carry over five thousand containers." (Relevance January 1997 Vol. III , No. VII ) Long Beach Naval Base is a major deep water port on the West Coast where the worlds largest ships and aircraft carriers can be docked. It can hold most of our Pacific Fleet. The US taxpayer recently spent a reported $50 million to modernize it in the last decade. Expecting to ride out the base closures in 1994, it came as a surprise to all but a few, that Long Beach Naval Base was closed. The base is located a few minutes from the giant McDonnell Douglas Research/Production Complex, where major stealth fighter research and production occur. The base is located within minutes to a few hours Edward's Air Force Base. (Top secret Air Force and NASA testing), China Lake Naval Weapons Test Center (top Navy Weapons Test Center, Point Magu Naval Weapons Center, Vandenberg Air Force Base (top missile and rocket research), Fort Irwin (the most advanced tactical facility in the world), Nellis Air Force Base (home of the most advanced tactical fighters in the world, ;Ultra=Top Secret Area 51 9 home of our steath ???), Camp Pendleton (one of the two Marine Corps training facilities), the Navy Seal base (top secret and covert activity training), Miramar Naval Air Station (Top Gun), and El Toro Marine Air Station (vertical assault helicopter training operations) which is moving after closure south of Long Beach. ( Gene Crocker, Ph.D., CA) Panama Canal On March 29, 1995 the Clinton Administration announced the transfer of America's military headquarters in Latin American, Southern Command, from Panama to Miami, Florida. This decision fulfills the 1977 Panama Treaty's commitment that all US troops be evacuated by December 1999. It also reflects the Clinton's administration view that the Canal be defended without the presence of US forces in Panama. (Central American News -- Gene Crocker PhD, CA) US UPSET AT DEAL CEDING PANAMA PORTS TO CHINA. A Hong Kong conglomerate with ties to the Chinese government has gained control of two key Panama Canal ports in a deal US officials say is "unorthodox." The agreement was made as the canal undergoes a sensitive transition from US to Panamanian control. It also coincides with US static over the Navy's leasing of a former Long Beach base to Cosco, which is operated by the Chinese government. Cosco also won a $138 million government loan guarantee to finance ship construction in Alabama. (The Washington Times, Wednesday March 19, 1997) Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, Benton County, Arkansas: Use of the New Northwest with an additional business complex is being built to the tune of $106 million. This is the Tyson Foods/Walmart/Lippo Deal. $21 million is supplied by the taxpayer via the US FAA Grants. (Business on-line, March 18,1997, American Spectator ON-Line March 1997) US MILITARY WEARING COMBAT BOOTS MADE IN CHINA: Congressional Record, House of Representatives, March 12, 1997: Mr. Traficant: "Mr. Speaker, it is no wonder that millions of Chinese dollars have popped up in American politics. I mean, check it out: China alone gets $45 billion from American taxpayers in a sweetheart deal known as most-favored-nation trade status. Now to me, that is absolutely disgusting, with the 17 cents an hour labor wage. But if that's not enough to rip one of those false made- in- America labels on one of those Chinese imports, check this out The United States Air Force just issued military combat boots to our troops that were made in China. That is right. American military personnel are wearing combat boots now made in China. Beam me up Mr. Speaker. What is next, marines in Mao suits? I think it is time to take a look at what China has done and take a look at everyone of those sweetheart trade deals." Charleston, SC... An alliance of three Asian shipping lines will send 52 giant container vessels a year to Charleston. Included in that alliance is the Beijing-based China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) The Port of Charleston has been designated the Atlantic Port for COSCO, and has been undergoing a mult-million dollar construction program. US alters RULE for Chinese ships: Washington DC For the first time since the 1950's, Chinese ships can dock near US military installations with just a day's notice -- a result of the Clinton Administration lifting a Cold-War era restriction still imposed on the former Soviet republic. In one of three deals in the past year helping Beijing's main shipping company, the United States quietly agreed to end the requirement that Chinese ships provide four day's notification when entering one a dozen sensitive ports. (Associated Press 4/01/97) Rep. Jerry Soloman, (R-NY) In the field of national security, what we see is a relentless Chinese military buildup, every more frequent exports of technology for weapons of mass destruction, all subsidized by the American taxpayers and even worse by Americans who have lost their jobs. If China thinks its national interests require undermining the United States, that's one thing ... It's another thing for the White House to help them. Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) Cosco is the same company that smuggled in the AK-47's, 2000 of them. We have M-2's and grenade launcher that are going down to Mexico City out of Long Beach. Yet both the arm's dealer and Cosco gave money to the DNC, President Clinton went along with Long Beach to go ahead and certify them. This same company, as of last week is going to occupy both ends of the Panama Canal. Sen. Dale Bumpers (AR) There is nothing the US Constitution that forbids local or state governments from entering into commercial arrangements with foreign companies, even if those companies are owned by a foreign government. All sensitive equipment will be removed from the Navy base before civilians are allowed to use the facility. (Sen. Bumpers letter March 31, 1997 to Arlene Brightbill, AR) Rep. James Traficant (D-OH) Let me remind Congress as we speak that China got a secret sweetheart of a deal in Long Beach, China is getting a United States guaranteed, government bank loan of $138 million in Alabama, a Chinese company was just awarded a $250 million dollar contract even though they have been convicted of smuggling AK-47's into America, and as we speak, a company with ties to China will operate both ports on each end of the Panama Canal that United States taxpayers built. I think there are more Americans that are tired of Democrat-Republican business. What I think is best for the country is to give a bull dog, like the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton), the opportunity to get to the bottom of this Chinese mess, regardless who is in the White House, Democrat or Republican. John McCain (R-AZ) asked the Clinton administration on Wednesday to delay US Loan guarantees to the Chinese government China Ocean Shipping Company, until a US probe into its pricing practices is complete. Until the commission finishes its analysis in a few weeks, McCain urged the Clinton administration to hold off on its plans to give the firms $138 million in loan guarantees so the company could buy four large container ships to be built in Alabama. (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 4/17/97) The revelations of Chinese infiltration of the US government has forced attention on the true intentions of the Chinese. US authors Bernstein and Munro, former Beijing bureau chiefs for the New York Times and the Toronto Globe and Mail, reveal internal Communist party documents marking the US as China's prime enemy and obstacle to its Asian dominance. They also described China's plan to seize control of the South China Sea, and how that would effect Asia, American and world trade. (Washington Times) Granting Most Favored Nations Status (MFN) ... Li Daoyu, China's ambassador to the US stated, "If you deny MFN status to China, in turn, Chines denies MFN status to the US," he told business and trade officials. The ambassador spoke at a reception at The Citadel sponsored by the S.C. World Trade Center -- Charleston and the State Port Authority. London Sunday Times on November 10, 1996 reported that Clinton's fund raising scandal appears to have been a stunning intelligence coup by China. Chinese agents were able to take advantage of lax security procedures and a pattern of corruption in the Clinton administration to gain advance knowledge of America's negotiation positions in trade and economic talks as well as access trade deals subsidized by America. This report by the London Sunday Times was echoed by the US Veteran Dispatch in their January-February 1997 Edition. CNN Headline News -- Harbor Panel Cancels Lease to China, "Stay aware because the method of operation may change, you may see American "middlemen" involved in the original lease, then subcontracting to Communist Red China. We see this situation happening at George AFB. (Marie Gunther, California State Sovereignty Coalition) Long Beach Foes of Chinese cargo facility score victory, " Monday night, April 21, 1997 the city's harbor commission reluctantly bowed to a judge's order. It voted to terminate an agreement with the China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO) to operate a 145 acre cargo terminal at the closed US Naval Station. Two commission members of Long Beach were in communist China trying to salvage the deal. Whether Cosco will stick with the deal is not clear. The city is scheduled to file new court papers by May 13 in a case that could go on for months." (The Washington Times - Wednesday April 23, 1997) Duncan Hunter introduced legislation, HR 1138, to prohibit the conveyance of the Naval Station at Long Beach to any commercial shipping company owned or controlled by a foreign country. "COSCO's involvement in arms smuggling and the recent unchecked shipment of machine guns and grenade launchers through Long Beach is unacceptable," said Hunter. "My legislation will prevent a Communist Chinese beachhead at the Naval Station." According to Duncan Hunter's office, April 14, 1997, the following are signers onto HR 1138: Hunter, Cunningham, Bartlett, Solomon, Barr, Danner, Hall (Texas), Hansen, Hayworth, Ney, Stump, Duncan. Let me end with writer Ambrose Pritchards of the London Times on being called back to London, "....It is under this President that domestic terrorism has become a feature of life in America. Nothing does more to sap the life of a democracy than the abuse power. To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that." ========================================================================== This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com. In the message body put: unsubscribe cas - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:38:04 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Students fingerprinted for test (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- _________________________________________________________________ 01/29/1998 07:08 EST [IMAGE] Students Fingerprinted for Tests DETROIT (AP) -- Parents and legal experts have identified a problem in Michigan standardized testing -- 122,000 fifth-graders provided their fingerprints without permission. All fifth-graders in Michigan's public schools had to fill out a ``Fingerprint Investigation Journal'' as part of the science segment on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program. State law says that with few exceptions, children's fingerprints can't be obtained without parents' permission. ``It's offensive,'' said Andrea Lang of St. Clair Shores, who learned that her 10-year-old daughter provided fingerprints for the test last week. ``It's an invasion of privacy. Only criminals get their fingerprints taken.'' The fingerprint journal was merely a hands-on experiment designed to make the science portion of the test more interesting, Peter Bunton of the MEAP office, said Wednesday. ``No, we are not fingerprinting kids and sending their prints to the FBI or filing them in Lansing,'' he said. The fingerprint journals, he added, are ``thrown away, torn up, discarded, or sent home with the kids.'' ``The law doesn't care if you throw it away,'' said Kerry Morgan, a Taylor attorney who was contacted by one parent. ``It just says you can't do it.'' Robert Sedler, a Wayne State University law professor, agreed fingerprints should only be disclosed voluntarily or in limited criminal circumstances. Bunton said he was unaware of the law. ``I'm very sorry parents may have misunderstood this,'' he said. ``We will not be doing anymore fingerprinting in a classroom ever again.'' Copyright 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Send comments and questions about The WIRE to feedback@ap.org. _________________________________________________________________ - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:52:38 -0600 From: Chuck Scanland Subject: Re: Students fingerprinted for test (fwd) At 09:38 AM 1/29/98 -0600, pwatson@utdallas.edu wrote: [snips] > ``It's offensive,'' said Andrea Lang of St. Clair Shores, who learned > that her 10-year-old daughter provided fingerprints for the test last > week. ``It's an invasion of privacy. Only criminals get their > fingerprints taken.'' Had to chuckle.... Not only criminals: Off the top of my head there is also Texas CCW applicants, prospective individual machinegun owners, employees of banks, licensed insurance salespeople, and probably lots more. Chuck - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:14:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Curtis Subject: Re: Students fingerprinted for test (fwd) Heard in a recent training session for leaders that legislation is in the works to finger print and background check *all* volunteers working with children: Soccer coaches, den leaders, ..... everyone. cost was: ~$35, consistent with lowest level national check. It would, of course, be voluntary. I've already been fingerprinted for: CMP marksmanship program and NH conceal carry. hard to oppose, in practical, political terms. jcurtis - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #56 ************************