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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (38128)	12/3/1998 8:36:00 PM
From: SeaViewer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mary, Well, Jiang was the guy who ordered the tanks into Tiennemen Square. It was not Jiang, who at that time was mayor of Shanghai. It was Deng who sent the troups to Tiennemen Square. I saw the newspaper yesterday that the Chinese Government just arrested several prominent dissidents. The economic condition in China is not as good as before. A lot factories (of course owned by the government) cannot pay medical bills for their workers (in China workers get medicare from its own employer). Unemployment rate is high. Just for your reference. Jeff

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (38128)	12/3/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB, >>>Well, Jiang was the guy who ordered the tanks into Tiennemen Square (sp). I don't think Slick Willie would do that. <<< Just for the record, it wasn't Jiang as Jeff Qin reminds us (Jiang was Mayor of Shanghai at the time) and it wasn't Deng either. I think the credit goes to that creep with the curley hair - whose name escapes me for now. As for Slick Willie - he lives by the polls and if the polls can't support it - he wouldn't do it. Just what he would or would not do if it weren't for the polls is anyone's guess. I remember back in Arkansas days as governor, and even though he was on record as being opposed to capital punishment, Slick Willie reversed hemself when the polls were overwhelmingly for capital punishment. He left his campaign and returned to Little Rock to sign an order to execute a person that was for all intent and purposes a non functioning human vegetable. FWIW and for whatever that means, Mary