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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: dvdw© who wrote (8674)12/10/2000 7:56:58 AM
From: John Carragher  Respond to of 10042
 
put nytimes on that list of learning nothing in the last 30 days.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"Preventing the recount from being completed will inevitably
cast a cloud on the legitimacy of the election."

- JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS, in dissent.

Full Story:
nytimes.com



To: dvdw© who wrote (8674)12/11/2000 6:57:21 AM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 10042
 
Not even freedom of Religion under Gore Clinton!:
hinese Spiritual Group Urges U.S. to Free Leader

HONG KONG, Dec 11, 2000 -- (Reuters) Chinese spiritual sect Zhong Gong said on Sunday its leader was suffering "inhumane treatment" in detention on the U.S.-administered island of Guam, and urged U.S. authorities to free him immediately.

In an open letter sent on International Human Rights Day to the UN Human Rights Commission, the group suggested that in its treatment of Zhang Hongbao the United States might be acting under pressure from China, which has outlawed his group.

"In China, the Communists persecute our group. In the United States, the Clinton government treat the leader of our group so inhumanely," it said. "Why? Is there a 'partnership' in Zhang's case, too?

"People cannot help suspecting whether somebody in the U.S. and the Chinese Communist authorities have dirty dealings under the (cont)
insidechina.com