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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBL who wrote (41566)	4/4/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: cody andre	Respond to of 67261

1.- Haiti, Clinton's first foreign adventure is a fiasco: political cleansing continues and US/NATO cannot do anything against the local thugs. Thus, Clinton's anti-voodoo policy is being aborted. 2.- Since 1974, there are UN peace-keeping forces in Cyprus keeping two NATO allies going for each other throats. 3.- In the Balkans, the Greater Serbia is clashing with Greater Albania (civilians on both sides caught in between). So far, would-be Greater Bulgaria is staying out of it. If it spreads to Macedonia, this newly-independent country will have to be partitioned between Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. Again, the Albanians in Macedonia will be pushed out or assimilated. There is a solution to No. 3 problem but the US and Russia will have to remain neutral arbitrators, with Greece and Turkey on the sidelines. Peaceful exchange of ethnic populations and property and the creation of a Balkan Common Market as part of the CSCE process will work. More on that later ... P.S. Clinton missed Balkans 101 while at Oxford (you all know what he was doing ... preparing for the Vietnam draft!) Happy Easter and prayers for all victims and POWs!

To: JBL who wrote (41566)	4/4/1999 5:00:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Testimony Links Top China Official, Funds for Clinton Ex-Democratic fund-raiser Chung told U.S. investigators that military intelligence chief secretly directed $300,000 to help president in '96. Embassy spokesman denies Beijing was involved in elections. By WILLIAM C. REMPEL, HENRY WEINSTEIN, ALAN C. MILLER, Times Staff Writers ADVERTISEMENT ASHINGTON--The chief of China's military intelligence secretly directed funds from Beijing to help reelect President Clinton in 1996, former Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung has told federal investigators. Chung says he met three times with the intelligence official, Gen. Ji Shengde, who ordered $300,000 deposited into the Torrance businessman's bank account to subsidize campaign donations intended for Clinton, according to sources familiar with Chung's sealed statements to federal prosecutors. During their initial meeting on Aug. 11, 1996, in Hong Kong, Ji conveyed to Chung the Chinese government's specific interest in supporting Clinton: "We like your president," Ji said, according to sources familiar with Chung's grand jury testimony. Chung testified that he was introduced to the intelligence chief by the daughter of China's retired senior military officer. Chung's testimony has provided investigators the first direct link between a senior Chinese government official and illicit foreign contributions that were funneled into Clinton's 1996 reelection effort. It is the strongest evidence to emerge--in two years of federal investigations--that the highest levels of the Chinese government sought to influence the U.S. election process. Key aspects of Chung's testimony, which has not been made public, have been corroborated by financial records in the United States and Hong Kong, according to law enforcement and other sources. It is illegal for U.S. political parties or candidates to accept contributions from foreign sources. Only a portion of the $300,000 made it into Democratic campaign coffers, records show. Continued Copyright 1999 Los Angeles Times. All Rights Reserved