From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 00:07:17 +0800
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: Re: White House admits censoring Chinese dissident
In-Reply-To: <v03007809b0c029b6e1f0@[204.254.20.2]>
Message-ID: <199712191602.LAA01075@users.invweb.net>
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In <v03007809b0c029b6e1f0@[204.254.20.2]>, on 12/19/97 
   at 08:42 AM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:

>    "We can only assume from this that not offending Beijing is more
>important to the administration than exerting pressure on China to
>release more dissidents and improve its human rights record," he said.

I think their biggest concern is not upsetting a major contributor to
their campain. :=/

Let's not forget that we have the '98 elections comming up and the
Democrats need that Chinese money to help them in their bid to retake the
House not to mention that the 2000 Presidential elections are not that far
off.

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