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Ladies and Gentlemen:
My blood is now boiling!
/s/ Paul Mitchell
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>The Washington Times
>October 23, 1997
>
>Chinese firm to get California port deal
>
>Deal reached to let Chinese run California port terminal
>
>By Rowan Scarborough
>
>The Senate has struck a compromise that would allow a Communist Chinese
>ocean carrier to operate a terminal at the old naval base in Long Beach,
>Calif., if President Clinton certifies it is not a security threat.
>. . . . The deal in the 1998 defense-authorization bill blunts a House
>measure to ban the Chinese Ocean Shipping Co. (Cosco) from Long Beach.
>The new compromise language of a House-Senate conference would block
>Cosco only if Mr. Clinton failed to exercise his waiver authority. Such
>a move seems unlikely because the White House supports Long Beach's
>efforts to woo Cosco.
>. . . . An aide to Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican, who led
>the Cosco resistance in the Senate, said yesterday the senator either
>had to accept the loophole or get no language at all.
>. . . . "I don't think it's meaningless. There's no doubt it's weaker.
>And the senator is not happy with that," the staffer said.
>. . . . He said Mr. Inhofe has been assured by Senate Majority Leader
>Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, that he will be given floor time to
>introduce and debate a stand-alone bill to bar Cosco.
>. . . . Mr. Inhofe heads the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on
>readiness, which handled the Cosco issue. The panel's senior Democrat,
>Sen. Charles S. Robb of Virginia, opposed blocking Cosco, as did many
>other Democrats. He argued local communities should be free to dispose
>of bases abandoned by the Pentagon.
>. . . . Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and the sponsor of a
>Cosco ban that won House approval, expressed disappointment in the
>Clinton waiver.
>. . . . But he said at least the amendment requires the president to
>certify that security agencies will face no additional burden by Cosco's
>presence at Long Beach.
>. . . . "I think it's easier for some Clinton aides to say Cosco hasn't
>delivered a nuclear bomb in the last 10 days," Mr. Hunter said.
>"However, I think it's more difficult for them to say this isn't going
>to increase the burden when you have this very large facility with the
>intelligence-gathering apparatus that China can install."
>. . . . "This is the equivalent of a new, huge Chinese embassy on our
>soil, with all the intelligence problems that attend such a facility,"
>he added. He says Cosco is an arm of China's People's Liberation Army
>and a threat to conduct espionage in Southern California.
>. . . . But it is uncertain whether Cosco will ever operate the Long
>Beach site, regardless of what action Congress takes.
>. . . . Through court action, environmentalists forced the port of Long
>Beach to terminate its Cosco lease and conduct a second impact study.
>Officials say they are now considering tenants other than Cosco for the
>144-acre track.
>. . . . The Navy closed the base in 1994 on orders of a base-closure
>commission.
>. . . . Before certifying Cosco as a nonthreat, Mr. Clinton must request
>assessment reports from the FBI and the Pentagon. However, the Pentagon
>already has told lawmakers Cosco is not a national-security threat. The
>FBI has provided private briefings on Cosco's intelligence-gathering
>skills.
>. . . . Allowing Cosco to control a large piece of strategic coastline
>that once held a historic naval base is unpalatable to many
>conservatives. When Mr. Inhofe last month appeared to back off a fight
>over Cosco, callers complained loudly on radio talk shows.
>. . . . Cosco is one of the world's largest carriers and is fast
>expanding operations in the Atlantic.
>. . . . Last year, U.S. inspectors discovered a Cosco ship, Empress
>Phoenix, carrying an illegal shipment of 2,000 AK-47 rifles to the San
>Francisco area. Mr. Hunter says Cosco also transports destabilizing
>weapons to Syria, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan.
>
>Copyright © 1997 News World Communications, Inc.
>
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