My Dear Maxine,

    I thought that you might enjoy this article; the comments by Bette 
Bao Lord seem especially good.

    Forgive me for not writing you more, as I ask you, yet again, to set 
about matters of the Dharma that most certainly bring you trouble.

    "You were always on my mind..." (isn't that the way the Willie 
Nelson song goes?)

     I don't think that I have any words "just for you" at this moment; 
the matter strikes me as a bit funny, but nonetheless is the truth.  I 
wish that I could see you more often, I wish that I could be tender with 
you in private, as I fell that we have a great deal of "processing," as 
the New Age saying goes, awaiting us no matter how many "walls" clunk 
into place (my "Internet" Shakespeare postings that I submitted, on my 
website now, and the new FBI complaint, have summed up quite a bit, 
perhaps, and may even carry some "weight" at long last)...

     This "false lighting" of myself as a "snitchjacket" (the word my 
daughter Sara reminded me to deploy regarding these clor-of-law 
hilariously funny hijinks dumped on me as anudder's *doo-doo!*) or 
"informant" has reached new bathetic lows.  One Robert Valencia--I 
beleive he bills himself as your "star consort"--about whom I've tried 
to exercise the utmost patience and understanding at the requests of my 
attorneys and Mary Anne, is at *it* once again, I have information and 
belief alleging. Now, I've disregarded most of what I hear as to what 
he's done to you, Mary Anne, Rebecca, etc., for the supposed reason of 
"he's your buddy working on your case to assist the Hallinan's." Given 
how his family, despite the "IRS fink division" odiousness of the whole 
lot, are supposedly "Democrats" and my alleged real family are 
supposedly "Republicans" (involved with "top secret" affairs of state 
making them not trustworthy per se, etc., etc., etc.), well, I've 
presumed a natural sympathy of Paddy et al for Boo Boo (nicknamed for 
obvious reasons) even when he's at his "clever monkey" worst in "trying 
to make a fool" out of me for the snitchocracy's favors, shall we say...

     My submission to Mother Jones was the last goddamned straw, 
however.  From what I hear (and I'm counting upon you and the 
Hallinan's--the only attorneys that I can possibly have, so if they 
decide to *fink* on me, well, that's all volks!), Herr Valencia and his 
Task Farce Gestapo (including ole Debbie the redneck Duthrie, from 
Bakersfield, not Palos Verdes as she's "reenvisioned" herself) not only 
told the editors that I'm "just a police informant" but too claimed that 
I "front" for others who can really write and do this "clever FBI trick" 
of disguising my "disinformation" with "James Joyce school of 
punctuation" *bad grammer* (both of the latter phrases in media 
"currency," the former on the MOJo webpage about the FOIA releases, the 
latter on a sign held up during the NBA playoffs, in Los Angeles, by the 
usual fustilug dyko-Gestapo types, to remind me that Rebecca was 
courtside and that I was "blackballed" ( as she was in a different 
meaning by ole Shaqie the overgrown fireplug and the other nasty as dey 
wanna be boysies--all night long! performance video to shock ya socks 
off!...) 

     Any more comments by myself would be "useless" at this point; 
suffice it to say that I have no choice but to augment my complaint by 
listing some tiems for Herr Valencia that I'm asking the Hallinan's, as 
my attorneys, to have confirmed or denied "for the record," along with 
another bill and small claims court "date" for the $3,000 that he 
admittedly owes me. (As I'm tired of the donkey-shit that he's working 
on my bejhald; I told the Hallinan's that he's a disciple of ole Jane 
"get outta the devil's ktichen if you don't like da heat" Fonda and will 
scuttle my case just like Fonda did as an FBI "agent provacateur...Words 
of wisdom, having cried out and gone patently ignored?!?...)

      I'll write more when I can "body and mind slough off" my *latest* 
round of "public humiliation."  Suffice *it* to say, I don't see how 
anyone in one's "right mind" could fail to consider me a "free agent" 
*these days*... 

love, tom, who says, too, that the "black ink still shines bright" 
because of you still being my Angel of Truth...with the bright, shining 
light...      


>Date:         Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:30:57 -0400
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>Issue ID: 98/06/30                         Compiled by Thubten (Sam) 
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>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Tuesday, June 30, 1998
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Contents:
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>1. Clinton's China trip: Dalai Lama encouraged but critics at home
>   unimpressed (Times of India)
>2. Tibet sees progress, thanks Clinton
>   Government-in-exile praised Jiang's `willingness' to talk (MSNBC)
>3. Supporters Vow More Help for Tibet
>   Activism: U.S. backers of Dalai Lama believe Chinese president was
>   conciliatory partly because of pressure from them (Los Angeles 
Times)
>4. Dalai lama: Clinton's message positive (UPI)
>5. Tibetans Get News From Indian Radio (AP)
>6. U.S. sees new China readiness for Tibet talk (Reuters)
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>1. Clinton's China trip: Dalai Lama encouraged but critics at home
>   unimpressed
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>By Ramesh Chandran
>
>WASHINGTON: Tuesday 30 June 1998 (Times of India) -- From Shanghai and
>Beijing, senior officials of the Clinton entourage now travelling in 
China
>such as the Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security
>Advisor Sandy Berger have been basking in the afterglow of the
>"extraordinary" debate between President Clinton and President Jiang 
Zemin.
>Ms Albright informed Sunday television talk shows here that both the 
joint
>press conference as well as Mr Clinton's speech at Beijing University 
were
>"remarkable" adding that "it's going to be one of those press 
conferences
>that is talked about for a long time to come." For his part the Dalai 
Lama,
>interviewed in Leh by one US newspaper whilst he was visiting Tibetan
>refugees, stated his hopes were raised by the "summit debate." However, 
the
>administration's many critics of its China policy back home had a 
vastly
>different interpretation; Mr Clinton's words were mostly "hollow" and 
that he
>had done the "barest minimum" possible in talking candidly to his 
hosts.
>
>The Dalai Lama was quoted by the New York Times correspondent from Leh 
as
>saying referring to the joint press conference: "Through this live 
show, many
>Chinese will have gained a better awareness of President Clinton's 
feelings
>about Tibet, and also President Jiang's feelings, and I think that can 
be
>enormously helpful in the long run." In the past 18 months, there have 
been
>low-profile efforts to revive contacts between Chinese authorities and
>representatives of the Dalai Lama and it was these attempts through 
private
>channels that Mr Jiang referred to in his comments about "several 
channels of
>communication." The important difference in Chinese attitude? They now 
opted
>to "listen" rather than "lecture", maintained the Tibetan spiritual 
leader.
>
>As for President Jiang's demand that the Dalai Lama recognise the 
Chinese
>"sovereignty over Tibet and Taiwan," he told the Times that he would 
need to
>consult with his senior aides at Dharamsala adding "I've made it very 
clear
>that I'm not seeking independence for Tibet; I am seeking genuine 
autonomy
>and this indirectly recognises Chinese sovereignty." The Dalai Lama 
also was
>attributed to making some comments in typical philosophical vein:"In 20 
years
>time, I'll be 83, just an old man with a stick, moving like a sloth 
bear.
>While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy..." After his passing 
in
>ten or 20 years time, the Dalai Lama wondered who could persuade the 
Tibetan
>radicals pointing out:"If the Dalai Lama is not there, the Tibetan 
issue can
>go completely out of control."
>
>Whilst senior aides and some Democrats have gone on a media relations
>offensive about the Clinton visit and much of the reporting in the U.S. 
media
>have extolled the President's "candour" and his ability to navigate the
>sensitive issues, there have been many other voices of dissonance 
amongst his
>domestic critics. They have repeatedly spoken about "missed 
opportunities"
>claiming the US President had only done the "barest minimum" possible. 
The
>writer Bette Bao Lord, the head of the human rights group Freedom House 
and
>who was born in Shanghai referring to the joint press conference of
>presidents Clinton and Jiang stated: "This was a piece of choreographed
>theatre for domestic consumption on both sides, to dampen the decibels 
of
>criticism." Ms Lord, who is a highly respected authority on China who 
is also
>on the board of governors of Radio Free Asia whose three staffers were 
denied
>visas by the Chinese authorities said:"There was an element of role 
reversal
>with Jiang trying to sound like a good old American pal and Clinton 
trying to
>look reserved and controlled, the way a foreign devil thinks the 
Chinese want
>to see a foreign statesman."
>
>In an editorial comment titled "Talk show host in Tiananmen", the 
Washington
>Times said:"Mr Clinton ranged from the serious to the goofy; he stated 
the
>American view of the Tiananmen Square massacre that `the use of force 
and the
>tragic loss of life was wrong' though he did not of course, mention who 
used
>force against whom....if only the world were a talk show, Mr Clinton 
would
>solve all problems. But its not."
>
>Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation", Congressman Christopher Cox who is
>heading the investigation into sensational allegations that American 
missile
>guidance technology was illegally transferred to China, said 
"notwithstanding
>historical progress, not much substantively has changed." Whilst 
Senator Fred
>Thompson, speaking on "Fox News Sunday" said whilst he was pleased that 
Mr
>Clinton had referred to human rights issues, pointed out, "frankly, it 
was
>the least he could do under the circumstances."
>
>Representative Nancy Pelosi, although a Democrat but who is one of the 
most
>trenchant critics of Mr Clinton's controversial China policy, branded 
the
>Sino-U.S. summit as a "victory for Mr Jiang." He maintained that 
Beijing had
>made few if any concessions on trade but had "accrued all the benefits 
of
>standing side by side with the President of the United States" while 
another
>outspoken critic, Gary Bauer, president of the Conservative Family 
Research
>Council, the lasting symbol of all the pomp and circumstance of the
>high-profile summitry would be the "honour guard" accorded to President
>Clinton at Tiananmen Square. In an article titled "Jiang's stunning 
triumph",
>William Safire the acerbic columnist of the New York Times 
wrote:"President
>Jiang was clearly dominant. This was his show.  He was so confident
>beforehand that his American guest would allude to repression in the 
most
>gingerly way that he directed it to be shown live on state 
television...".
>
>The columnist also attacked Mr Clinton for his "craven abandonment" of
>presidential tradition by not insisting on taking along the three 
reporters
>of Radio Free Asia. To remedy the lapse, Mr Safire suggested: "Given
>Clinton's pusillanimity, how should Congress respond? The RFA budget is 
now
>$ 22 million;  given $ 2 million more, we could broadcast an additional 
six
>hours a week in Tibetan and expand the service in Uighur to the Turkic
>Chinese in far-off Xinjiang."
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>2. Tibet sees progress, thanks Clinton
>   Government-in-exile praised Jiang's `willingness' to talk
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
>
>BEIJING, June 29 - Tibet's government in exile on Monday said it saw 
real
>promise in the remarks of President Jiang Zemin over the weekend and 
thanked
>Jiang and President Bill Clinton for expressing a willingness to 
discuss the
>region's status. U.S. officials, too, said that Jiang's remarks on 
China were
>very significant and a sign that substantive talks between China and 
the
>exiled Dalai Lama might be possible.
>
>     `We..applaud President Jiang Zemin for publicly recognising the 
fact
>     that Tibet is an important issue needing a solution and for 
indicating
>     his willingness to have exchange of views and discussions on 
this.'
>     -  TIBETAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE'S STATEMENT
>
>TIBET'S GOVERNMENT IN EXILE, based in Dharamsala in north India, said 
"we ..
>applaud president Jiang Zemin for publicly recognizing the fact that 
Tibet is
>an important issue needing a solution and for indicating his 
willingness to
>have exchange of views and discussions on this."
>
>The statement also hailed Clinton for asking the Chinese government to 
resume
>dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
>
>Clinton told a nationally televised news conference in Beijing that he 
had
>urged Jiang to resume dialogue with the Dalai Lama in return for 
recognition
>of Tibet as a part of China.
>
>The Chinese president said that door was open for negotiations as long 
as the
>Dalai Lama recognized Tibet as an inalienable part of China and that 
Taiwan
>was a province of China.
>
>The Tibetan statement said that the Dalai Lama had already stated that 
he was
>not seeking independence for the Himalayan region and that Tibetans 
hoped the
>Chinese leadership would accept the sincerity of their spiritual 
leader's
>gesture.
>
>"As far as the question of Tibet's status is concerned, nobody can 
change the
>past. However his Holiness feels that we should not be encumbered by 
the
>past," the statement said.
>
>OPTIMISM FROM WASHINGTON
>
>A senior U.S. official confirmed that Washington views Jiang's remarks 
as
>something of a breakthrough. The senior official, who asked not to be 
named,
>said the Clinton-Jiang summit had moved China closer to talks with the 
Dalai
>Lama, who fled Tibet during a communist Chinese crackdown in 1959. 
China
>invaded and occupied the mountainous kingdom in 1950.
>
>"I think what you saw in public, what Jiang said, was very 
significant," said
>Jeffrey Bader, one of Clinton's chief advisers on China.
>
>"I cannot recall a Chinese leader ever talking about a multiple channel
>discussion with the Dalai Lama before, talking about openness to 
dialogue
>(and) the context in which it was offered suggests a new readiness to 
talk if
>certain conditions are met," he said.
>
>"I don't want to overplay or exaggerate how close they may be to a
>dialogue-there are still conditions - but the tone of what he said was 
new,
>and the fact that he was public about it for a nationwide audience was 
new."
>
>TELEVISED NEWS CONFERENCE
>
>     `As long as the Dalai Lama recognizes Tibet is an inalienable part 
of
>     China and that Taiwan is a province of China, then the door is 
open for
>     dialogue and negotiations.'
>     -  JIANG ZEMIN Chinese president
>
>Surprising U.S. officials and many others, Jiang not only allowed the 
news
>conference after his Saturday summit with Clinton to be televised 
nationally,
>he actually discussed Tibet - one of the most sensitive matters for the
>Chinese leadership.
>
>China has long accused the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist leader and Nobel 
Peace
>Prize laureate, of trying to split their motherland.
>
>U.S. officials had said before the summit that they saw no interest on 
the
>part of the Chinese in discussing Tibet with the United States, and one
>official predicted Clinton would raise the touchy subject only during 
his
>private talks with Jiang.
>
>But at the start of their news conference, Clinton said he had urged 
Jiang
>"to resume a dialogue with the Dalai Lama in return for the recognition 
of
>Tibet as part of China, and in recognition of the unique cultural and
>religious heritage of that region."
>
>Jiang could have let the issue drop, but he did not, returning to the 
subject
>later.
>
>"As long as the Dalai Lama recognizes Tibet is an inalienable part of 
China
>and that Taiwan is a province of China, then the door is open for 
dialogue
>and negotiations,"  he said. "I hope the Dalai Lama will make a 
positive
>response."
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>3. Supporters Vow More Help for Tibet
>   Activism: U.S. backers of Dalai Lama believe Chinese president was
>   conciliatory partly because of pressure from them.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>By NORMAN KEMPSTER, Times Staff Writer
>
>WASHINGTON, Tuesday, June 30, 1998 (Los Angeles Times) -- American 
supporters
>of Tibet vowed Monday to maintain the pressure on China that they 
believe
>contributed to Chinese President Jiang Zemin's stated willingness to 
open a
>dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
>
>"The campaign will continue until His Holiness is entertaining visitors 
in
>the Potala Palace" in the Tibetan capital, said Mary Beth Markey, 
director of
>governmental relations for the privately funded International Campaign 
for
>Tibet in Washington.
>
>Markey said a "confluence of forces"--from strong congressional support 
to
>the effect of a pro-Tibet rock concert--probably persuaded Jiang that 
the
>international political cost was too high for China to maintain its
>traditional hostility to Tibetan aspirations.
>
>But she and other pro-Tibet activists also said that Jiang's remarks, 
made at
>the end of a news conference Saturday with President Clinton, seemed to
>signal little more than a change in atmosphere.  The substance of 
China's
>demand that Tibet acknowledge it is part of China remained intact.
>
>Still, Jiang is the first Chinese leader to talk publicly about Tibet 
in
>relatively neutral terms; in the past, the Chinese government has 
coupled
>statements about Tibet with personal attacks on the Dalai Lama, the 
exiled
>Tibetan spiritual leader, and on other Tibetan officials.
>
>"What is progress is that this became a matter for the [Chinese] public 
to
>listen to," Markey said. "There is a lot of misinformation about what 
is
>happening in Tibet. There has been vilification of the Dalai Lama over 
the
>years. In that regard, this is quite amazing."
>
>                               * * *
>
>In Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's headquarters in northern India, the 
Tibetan
>government-in-exile cautiously welcomed Jiang's overture. Spokesman T. 
C.
>Tethong said Tibetans "applaud President Jiang Zemin for publicly 
recognizing
>the fact that Tibet is an important issue needing a solution and for
>indicating his willingness to have an exchange of views and discussions 
on
>this."
>
>Jiang, in comments Saturday, said: "Actually, as long as the Dalai Lama 
can
>publicly make the statement and a commitment that Tibet is an 
inalienable
>part of China--and he must also recognize Taiwan as a province of 
China--then
>the door to dialogue and negotiation is open."
>
>In response, Tethong said, the Dalai Lama has already "stated very
>unequivocally that he is not seeking independence. We hope the Chinese
>leadership will recognize the sincerity of His Holiness' gesture and 
take a
>reciprocal step."
>
>In Los Angeles, the Dalai Lama's followers were skeptical that the
>Clinton-Jiang remarks on Tibet offered new hope. In calling for the 
Dalai
>Lama to recognize China's sovereignty over Taiwan, they said, the 
Chinese
>leader did nothing more than add another condition for negotiations.
>"They have not changed their rhetoric at all," said Tseten Phanucharas,
>former president of the Los Angeles Friends of Tibet organization. 
Although
>Jiang refrained from personally attacking the Dalai Lama during the 
televised
>weekend session with Clinton, China's religious affairs minister had 
publicly
>railed against the Tibetan leader and denounced his regime as a "dark 
age"
>theocracy in earlier remarks, she said.
>
>To improve relations, she added, the Chinese should take such concrete 
steps
>as freeing thousands of political prisoners--more than one-third of 
whom are
>Tibetans, she said.
>                               * * *
>
>Chinese troops occupied Tibet in 1950. The Dalai Lama, the country's
>religious leader, fled to India in 1959 after an unsuccessful uprising
>against Chinese authorities. China maintains that the Himalayan region 
has
>always been a part of China, while Tibet supporters claim it was once 
an
>independent nation. The United States regards Tibet as part of China 
but
>urges Beijing to end its repression there.
>
>Under pressure from Congress, Clinton last year appointed an official 
envoy
>to the Tibetan government-in-exile, a step that previous 
administrations had
>refused to take. Gregory Craig, whose primary job is director of policy
>planning for the State Department, holds the envoy post.
>
>Times staff writer Teresa Watanabe in Los Angeles contributed to this 
report.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>4. Dalai lama: Clinton's message positive
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>SHANGHAI, China, June 30 (UPI) - A U.S. official says the dalai lama 
has
>conveyed to the White House word that he is encouraged by President 
Clinton's
>call for a dialogue between the Tibetan spiritual leader and Chinese
>President Jiang Zemin.
>
>After meeting with Jiang last week in Beijing, Clinton called on China 
to put
>aside long-standing political disputes and open a dialogue on Tibet 
with the
>dalai lama.
>
>A senior official traveling with the president in China confirmed the 
dalai
>lama "had a positive reaction" about Clinton's call for a dialogue with 
China
>on Tibet.
>
>Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the official said, "He thought 
that
>the president's message of the other day was encouraging, and as a 
result we
>will in the weeks ahead push harder to open a dialogue between the 
dalai lama
>and China."
>
>Speaking at a news conference following his summit meeting with Jiang,
>Clinton praised the exiled religious leader as an "honest man."
>
>Clinton added, "I believe if he had a conversation with President 
Jiang, they
>would like each other very much."
>
>China considers Tibet an integral part of its territory, but many in 
the
>United States see the province as an occupied nation suffering under 
brutal
>atheist communist rule.
>
>Earlier this month, Beijing ruled out any dialogue with the dalai lama,
>calling him a thinly disguised political figure working to split China.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>5. Tibetans Get News From Indian Radio
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>NEELESH MISRA
>Associated Press Writer
>
>NEW DELHI, India, Monday June 29 (AP) - When she was in Tibet, Gyaltsen
>Chotso huddled under quilts to muffle the sound when she listened to 
news
>broadcasts on her short-wave radio.
>
>"People inside Tibet feel they have missed their breakfast if they 
cannot
>listen to the radio news for a day," Chotso said about radio shows 
financed
>by the U.S. and Norwegian governments.
>
>Three years ago, the 28-year-old Buddhist nun fled to neighboring 
India,
>which is a haven for more than 100,000 other Tibetans. She said she had 
been
>imprisoned and tortured by Chinese authorities for shouting 
anti-Beijing
>slogans at rallies.
>
>Even here, she still regularly tunes in to the Tibetan programs on 
Radio Free
>Asia and the Voice of America, both run by the United States, and the
>Norway-based Voice of Tibet.
>
>The services have 10 Tibetan journalists based in India to report on 
events
>relating to Tibet.
>
>For instance, they recently gave extensive coverage to a hunger strike 
by
>Tibetan exiles in India. One group demanding Tibetan independence 
fasted
>seven weeks before being hospitalized against their will, and five 
other
>exiles who took up the protest fasted 18 days before giving up. A man 
who was
>to have been among the second group set himself on fire in a protest 
and
>later died.
>
>China often tries to drown politically sensitive foreign broadcasts 
with
>shrill droning noises from jamming stations. The radio networks then 
switch
>frequencies, with the Chinese jammers in pursuit.
>
>That kind of Cold War cat-and-mouse game seems out of place in 
U.S.-Chinese
>relations. In 1994, President Clinton decided trade with China would 
not be
>affected by human rights issues.
>
>But ever since the Chinese government put down pro-democracy protests 
in
>1989, the U.S. Congress has felt it had to act.. The Voice of America 
started
>its Tibetan broadcasts in 1990 and Radio Free Asia added a Tibetan 
service in
>1996.
>
>"Congress saw broadcasts into China as an effective tool to break the
>stranglehold of the Chinese Communist Party," the U.S. State Department 
says.
>
>Just before Clinton arrived last week, China withdrew the visas of 
three
>Radio Free Asia employees who had planned to cover the trip. Clinton
>denounced the decision.
>
>Over the weekend, Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin debated 
Tibet and
>other issues. The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, reportedly
>applauded the talks.
>
>The Norwegian government finances voluntary groups that in turn fund 
the
>Voice of Tibet.
>
>"There is genuine concern among Norwegian people for the Tibetans, and 
this
>awareness has especially increased after the Dalai Lama was awarded the 
Nobel
>Prize in 1989," said Bjorn Midthun, a spokesman for the Norwegian 
Embassy in
>New Delhi.
>
>Audience figures are impossible to get, but hundreds of letters and 
messages
>sneaked across the border from Tibet in the past few months indicate 
the
>popularity of the broadcasts.
>
>The few hours of daily programming on each station include news, music 
and
>discussions on education, religion, literature and Tibetan history.
>
>"People say the networks broadcast hope of independence," said Tsering
>Migmar, a reporter for the Voice of America's Tibetan service.
>
>But the Tibetan journalists say their goal is to deliver 
straightforward news
>reports to Tibetans.
>
>"Our focus is to stick to journalistic ethics," said Lobsang Yeshi at 
Radio
>Free Asia. "We are trying to make our (exile) government more 
transparent and
>introduce the Tibetan people to democratic functioning."
>
>Yeshi offended conservative Tibetans last year when he reported on a 
Tibetan
>youth who was arrested by Indian authorities for drug trafficking.
>
>"If it is news, it has to be reported," he said.
>
>"There is a saying in Tibetan: You can't shut out the rising sun by 
holding
>up your palm against your face," he added.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>6. U.S. sees new China readiness for Tibet talk
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>By Carol Giacomo
>
>BEIJING, Monday June 29 (Reuters) - President Jiang Zemin's 
unprecedented
>public remarks about Tibet at a news conference with President Clinton
>suggest China is more ready to hold a dialogue with its exiled 
spiritual
>leader the Dalai Lama, a senior U.S. official said Monday.
>
>"I think what you saw in public, what Jiang said, was very 
significant," said
>Jeffrey Bader, one of Clinton's chief advisers on China.
>
>"I cannot recall a Chinese leader ever talking about a multiple channel
>discussion with the Dalai Lama before, talking about openness to 
dialogue
>(and) the context in which it was offered suggests a new readiness to 
talk if
>certain conditions are met," he said.
>
>"I don't want to overplay or exaggerate how close they may be to a 
dialogue
>-- there are still conditions -- but the tone of what he said was new, 
and
>the fact that he was public about it for a nationwide audience was 
new."
>
>Surprising U.S. officials and many others, Jiang not only allowed the 
news
>conference after his Saturday summit with Clinton to be televised 
nationally,
>he actually discussed Tibet -- one of the most sensitive matters for 
the
>Chinese leadership.
>
>China has long accused the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist leader and Nobel 
Peace
>Prize laureate, of trying to split their motherland.
>
>U.S. officials had said before the summit that they saw no interest on 
the
>part of the Chinese in discussing Tibet with the United States and one
>official predicted Clinton would raise the touchy subject only during 
his
>private talks with Jiang.
>
>But at the start of their news conference, Clinton said he had urged 
Jiang
>"to resume a dialogue with the Dalai Lama in return for the recognition 
of
>Tibet as part of China, and in recognition of the unique cultural and
>religious heritage of that region."
>
>Jiang could have let the issue drop, but he did not, returning to the 
subject
>later.
>
>"As long as the Dalai Lama recognizes Tibet is an inalienable part of 
China
>and that Taiwan is a province of China, then the door is open for 
dialogue
>and negotiations," he said.
>
>"I hope the Dalai Lama will make a positive response," he said.
>
>Tibet's government-in-exile from its headquarters in Dharamsala in 
north
>India applauded Jiang for recognizing the importance of the Tibetan 
issue.
>
>"We ... applaud President Jiang Zemin for publicly recognizing the fact 
that
>Tibet is an important issue needing a solution and for indicating his
>willingness to have exchange of views and discussions on this," a 
statement
>by the department of information and international relations said.
>
>The statement also hailed Clinton for asking the Chinese government to 
resume
>dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
>
>The Dalai Lama for years has said he seeks only greater autonomy for 
Tibet.
>The globe-trotting cleric said in France this month he was optimistic 
about
>the region's long-term future and was maintaining informal contact with
>Beijing.
>
>Bader said the Dalai Lama has made comments over the last few months,
>including during a recent visit to the United States, "that were very
>positive about strengthening U.S.-China relations, about the way to 
deal with
>China."
>
>China's suppression of Tibetan nationalism has made the Himalayan 
region's
>fate a deeply emotive issue in the United States, where the Dalai Lama 
enjoys
>a spiritual star status enhanced by vocal support from Hollywood
>personalities.
>
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>end WTN 98/06/30
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