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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Les H who wrote (3396)8/29/1998 12:07:00 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13994
 
From www.scmp.com (South China Morning Post)

Archive titles on Clinton/Lewinsky:

Lifelong compulsion to bend and break the rules

Little-known director gets in first with Zippergate movie

Some more cool stories from today's SCMP:

SaturdayÿÿAugust 29ÿÿ1998

Wife 'had sex with stranger out of love for husband'

MAGDALEN CHOW
A woman who says she was tricked into having sex with
a stranger yesterday told a court she did it because
she loved her husband and thought it was the only way
she could help him.

She told the District Court that a man posing as her
husband had convinced her over the phone to meet
accused To Kwok-hung for sex and give him $15,000.

The woman, 49, testified that the man called her on
January 31 and said he owed $150,000 to Macau
loansharks. He said that the debt would be cancelled
if she slept with a loanshark.

To, who worked in a hair salon, posed as the
loanshark, the court heard.

"I said to [the caller]: 'You are my husband.
There is no other method now. I have to go as
I really love you'," she told the court.

To, 31, denies five charges of procuring an
unlawful sexual act with false representations
and three of obtaining property by deception.

The woman testified that she spoke to the man
claiming to be her husband several times on
the phone before agreeing to the deal.

She said that at one point she suspected he was
not her husband, but he had said his voice was
rough because he had been playing mahjong until
late the previous night.

She was told to go to the Fairyland Inn in Yuen
Long, where she had sex with the defendant,
the court heard.

When she got home, she immediately received a
call from the man posing as her husband. He
said: "Sorry my dear, but you have to go back
again," she told the court.

She later went back to the villa and again
allegedly had sex with the defendant.

When questioned by prosecutor Malcolm Nunns,
the woman said she rarely saw her husband as
he worked night shifts and she worked during
the day. She told the court she called police
when she spoke to her husband and realised
she had been tricked.

Mr Nunns has told the court that To had
tricked another woman, aged 46, into performing
oral sex on him and giving him $500 on January 2.

To was arrested at his flat in Tin Yiu Estate,
Tin Shui Wai.

The trial continues before Judge Brian de Souza.

Bomber seized in murder-suicide bid

REUTERS
Beijing police have seized a man with explosives
who was apparently planning to blow up his
estranged wife in a murder-suicide, newspapers
reported yesterday.

The man, identified as Ma Fei, 21, was caught
placing an instant noodle box filled with
explosives in front of a building in southeast
Beijing on Thursday, according to the Beijing
Morning Post and Beijing Evening News.

One report said the man also had 2.5kg of
explosives and detonators attached to his
body.

Ma told police he was searching for his wife,
who left without a trace over the Lunar New
Year.

The report said he had found the explosives
in his native Shanxi province, and planned
to kill himself and his wife. A previous
report said he was upset at failing a
university entrance examination.

Police were not available for comment.

-- Carl



To: Les H who wrote (3396)8/29/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: Les H  Respond to of 13994
 
Some dare call it treason


"The more you look into this business of the
transfer of advanced, sophisticated
technology to the Chinese military, which
seems to be clearly for campaign
contributions, the harder it is to stay away
from words like treason," says House
Majority Leader Dick Armey.

The obvious question that statement raises, of
course, is, "Then why shy away from such
words?"

I've been using that word for some time. It's a
powerful word, a compelling word and an
accurate word to describe what Bill Clinton
has committed, not once, but several times as
president.

We all know about the Loral Corp.'s transfer
of technology that permitted the criminal
regime in Beijing to better target U.S. cities
with nuclear weapons. I believe the
Rosenbergs were executed for a crime similar
in nature, but one which actually left our
civilian population far less vulnerable.

One little fact still overlooked, in fact, to my
knowledge, still unreported by any other
news agency in the world besides this one, is
that Loral was at the time of the transfer and
remains today in a formal business
partnership with the Chinese military. In other
words, President Clinton approved, over the
objections of his Justice Department and State
Department, Loral's use of Chinese rocket
technology to boost sensitive satellites into
orbit when its chairman, Bernard Schwartz,
the biggest individual contributor to his 1996
re-election campaign, was working
hand-in-glove with, arguably, the most
oppressive regime on the planet. Schwartz
was Clinton's first choice, by the way, to be
secretary of Defense.

Another overlooked angle on who owns
Clinton dates back much further. Do you
know who was the largest contributor to
Clinton's first presidential race in 1992? Can
you guess who provided more campaign cash
than the National Education Association, all
other labor unions, any political action
committees and all other individuals and
families? Mochtar and James Riady. And do
you know who the Riadys are? Besides being
Indonesian billionaires, they are strongly
suspected by Clinton's own FBI of being
intelligence agents for Beijing. Their history
with Clinton goes all the way back to his
earliest political days in Little Rock when he
first sought to become Arkansas' attorney
general. Why were these billionaires, so cozy
with the Chinese Communists, interested in
this relatively obscure politician as far back as
the 1970s?

Clinton's long and profitable relationship with
the Riadys raises the question of his motives
behind the federalization of Utah's Grande
Staircase of the Escalante, the largest coal and
mineral reserve in the U.S. The area was about
to begin mining the highest quality coal
available in the world, with a value estimated
to be $1 trillion. The only other coal that could
compete in terms of quality comes from a
mine in Indonesia owned by, you guessed it,
the Riadys.

Then there's the little matter of the former U.S.
Naval Base at Long Beach, Calif. A plan is still
under consideration to turn the base over to
the Chinese Overseas Shipping Co., or
COSCO, a virtual subsidiary of the Chinese
military and a den of Communist spies. Who
was the architect of this incredible plan? The
president of the United States -- Bill Clinton.
The president held two meetings, one in the
White House with his chief of staff and
deputy secretary of defense, to lobby for the
deal. The White House proposed the concept
to local officials in Long Beach.

You want more? Clinton denounces U.S.
politicians who accept American tobacco
money and gratefully takes it himself from a
Chinese government-owned tobacco
monopoly. Clinton hates automatic weapons,
but weeks after a Chinese gun-running
company, Poly Technologies, is caught
attempting to smuggle 2,000 AK-47s into the
U.S to arm L.A. street gangs, the president has
coffee with the head of the firm in the White
House. Clinton hates U.S.-made
semi-automatics, too, but when Wang Jun,
president of that same Poly Technologies,
escorted by Charlie Trie, visits the White
House, the president approves a shipment of
more than 100,000 such weapons into the
United States. Clinton's own staff warns him
off John Huang, an operative of the Riadys'
Lippo Group, yet the president personally
intervenes to get him a top-security clearance
at the Commerce Department. I could go on
and on. But you get the picture.

There is only one logical conclusion to draw
from this pattern. The president of the United
States is, at best, severely compromised by the
Chinese and, at worst, bought and paid for by
them. Either way, it spells the same thing --
treason with a capital T.

And, yes, all you Monica Lewinsky fans and
cigar aficionados, treason is most definitely an
impeachable offense.



To: Les H who wrote (3396)8/29/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: RJC2006  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13994
 
<<<''I heard that first in the civil rights movement,'' he said. ''Love thy neighbor as thyself.''>>>

Too bad. I first heard of it in the Bible.

<<<''be with you through thick and through thin.'' >>>

Lovely choice of words as concerns Mr. Clinton.

<<<On Tuesday he flew from his vacation retreat on Martha's Vineyard to Worcester,Mass. to present thoughts on preventing school violence. He got a warm reception from Democrats who outnumber Republicans four-to-one in the area. >>>

Nice to see the GOP finally got a foothold.

<<<Lewis told the president, ''I was with you at the beginning and I will stand with you from now to the end...>>>

"...of September."



To: Les H who wrote (3396)8/29/1998 9:31:00 PM
From: jlallen  Respond to of 13994
 
I saw Clinton's comments about forgiveness on TV. Personally, I expected the tone and content of the apology speech given the man's total lack of concern for anyone but himself. I found it ridiculous and empty but not truly offensive. However, I found those comments on forgiveness to be highly offensive. It was like he was making a joke over this whole episode. Clearly he has no remorse and is not as yet really sorry about anything other than the fact he got caught. JLA