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To: long-gone who wrote (80941)	1/20/2002 12:20:42 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

I've sung solo a/w/a conducted my university chorale in that rotunda...I'll never forget the thrill. Thanks for the lovely memory, Richard. I'll have to go dig out some pictures. Did you like that hunk o'rock at members.aol.com Wouldn't you like to trip over either one of those???

To: long-gone who wrote (80941)	1/20/2002 1:14:41 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

O/T American cat-and-mouse game??? Jiang's plane bugged, says China More than 20 spying devices found in plane intended for President Jiang's use. Now grounded, it was refitted in the US By David Hsieh and Alfred Lee STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU CHINESE intelligence experts have found more than 20 spying devices in a Boeing 767 that was intended to become President Jiang Zemin's official aircraft after it was delivered from the United States. One was found in a lavatory and another in the headboard of the presidential bed. Other tiny spy bugs were found in the upholstery. The plane was grounded and has not been flown since it was delivered last October, according to the Financial Times and Washington Post. The Post said the new Boeing 767-300ER with all the trimmings, sits unused on a military airfield north of Beijing, with parts of its innards torn out. The FT report said President Jiang was furious when told about this by Chinese military officers and aviation officials. Chinese aviation officials and military officers have charged that US intelligence agencies planted the bugs aboard the plane while it was refitted in the US. The planting of the spy bugs will come as a huge embarrassment to Washington - even though there is no evidence that the US government had anything to do with the bugging devices. US President George W. Bush is due to meet President Jiang in Beijing late next month. It is not clear if the discovery of the bugs will have any effect on the summit, when the two leaders will discuss important geo-political issues. The aircraft was assembled at Boeing's huge factory in Seattle, but it is understood that it was empty of furnishings when it left the company. Specially-designed equipment and upholstery was fitted by another firm, elsewhere in the US. The twin-jet was flown to Beijing, with a stopover in Honolulu. The Washington Post, quoting a Chinese source, said China bought the plane in June 2000 for US$$120 million. The Financial Times said that 20 Chinese Air Force officers and two Chinese Aviation Supplies Export and Import Corporation officials had been taken into custody. The jet should have been under constant surveillance by Chinese representatives during its construction and fitting out. Beijing's top security officials want to find out how so many spying devices could have been fitted into the aircraft, despite the surveillance. Central Intelligence Agency spokesman Bill Harlow declined to comment on the report, saying, 'We never comment on allegations like these, as a matter of policy.' In Beijing, a foreign ministry official declined to comment yesterday. A Western diplomat told The Sunday Times that the bugging incident would not bode well for President Bush's rapport with President Jiang. 'Relations between leaders have a certain dimension. This will definitely affect their personal chemistry,' he said, adding that recent US foreign policy had already made the Chinese very uneasy. But a People's Liberation Army general said: 'Of course, we will remember what the US has done and is doing, but it will not have much bearing on relations. He said China should not have bought a foreign plane for President Jiang's official use in the first place. China and the US clashed over the issue of espionage in April last year, when a Chinese F-8 fighter jet and a US EP-3 spy plane collided over the South China Sea. The Chinese pilot was killed and the American plane had to land on Chinese territory. Chinese experts are understood to have stripped the EP-3 and closely examined all its sophisticated, secret spying equipment, before handing back the plane to America. straitstimes.asia1.com.sg