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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (15716)	6/8/1998 8:15:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

That same "60 Minutes" noted that Silicon Graphics sold something like 80 supercomputers to China. The supercomputers were essential to missile development and targeting the US with Chinese nuclear missiles. "60 Minutes" connected the dots and documented how Silicon Graphics and its head, McCracken (sp?), had organized Silicon Valley support for Clinton in 1992 and was one of Clinton's and the Dems' largest contributors. Clinton seems to have been determined to prove the old communist line correct when they said that "Capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them". Of course, it didn't hurt that Clinton was paid off. Character doesn't matter, we are told: The China Connection Did the Clinton Administration take illegal campaign contributions from the Chinese in return for easing restrictions on U.S. exports of high technology to them? We may never know, but we do know this administration has made it easier than ever for U.S. companies to sell sensitive technology to the nation that helped give Pakistan its nuclear capability. Co-editor Steve Kroft reports. According to University of Wisconsin professor, Gary Milhollin (pictured), an expert on the sale of arms technology, highly sophisticated metal cutting and shaping tools used to make military aircraft and missiles were exported to China as a deal sweetener that China asked for when it agreed to give a billion-dollar contract to McDonnell Douglas to build commercial aircraft in China. "It was blackmail," Millholin tells Kroft. "The Chinese were telling McDonnell Douglas, 'Look, if you want to make a big airline package deal...we want some sensitive machine tools that you would not otherwise sell us....And we want the administration to close its eyes,'" he says. marketing.cbs.com play.rbn.com