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To: TobagoJack who wrote (39025)	9/30/2003 10:12:18 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Respond to of 74559

Jay, Here is some more transparency in marriage and visiting your freedom rock as individual rather than like Japanese group to the main land. news.bbc.co.uk In China new regulations are due to come into force in Wednesday which will allow citizens to get married without permission from their employers. Until now, getting married in China could be a bureaucratic nightmare. Couples wanting to tie the knot had to have the blessing of their employers. ...... New regulations enforced last month mean that residents of some cities can apply for passports without permission from their bosses. They can also visit Hong Kong and Macao as individuals, rather than as part of a tour group. These changes are extremely popular, as people resent state micro-management in their lives. Indeed, even the official media say these moves address the need to return rights to the individual. But rights groups warn there is still a long way to go.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (39025)	9/30/2003 11:16:22 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

on ‘what is going on with who told what to whom by what time when something did or didn’t happen somewhere with what was there or not’ a (mis)quote on Bush I in Iran Contra (man, that's 20 years plus ago...): "There is new written evidence tonight concerning what President Bush didn't get -- and when he didn't get it -- ". Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, October 30, 1992. But as you're saying, Jay, there's more important things. Thanks for the angle.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (39025)	10/1/2003 6:15:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Thanks for the information. I haven't even met him, but Hu Jintao seems like a good bloke. I should invite him around for a cup of tea during his trip to Kiwiland this month, but he's probably too busy talking about sheep or something in Helengrad. I have some gifts for him from China, from a century and more ago, which my grandfather bought. If Hu's going to get China back into civilization, it would be nicer for him to have them in the Great Hall of the People or some place than me to have them stashed away [sometime to be lost, stolen or damaged]. I have owned QUALCOMM for several years and your 'buy PRC' recommendation is effectively already done as QUALCOMM depends heavily on huge sales of ASICs to China, and to some extent royalties on exports and maybe to a large extent on BREW sales and possibly Eudora and other things such as gpsOne. Mqurice