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Show % 22 ——— iday, May 14, 1999 The Salt Lake7 fribune _OPINIO. A-23 U.S. Must Deal Realistically With China’s Hostility Toward the West WASHINGTON If ht. there would have GEORGIE ANNE GEYER illusion cannowno longer be sustained s theyfell to earth th fromfy Brussels to Beijing to Belg ate attthe ev would by nowbestuck heliplecety he flowering bushes of this lovely tration officials continue to yearn for a city. 2 ter the tragic accidental bombing Chinese Embassy in Bel fer he d th by ae fecha demonstra ‘enraged arnership’ with Beijin strategic f na’s leaders make no effort to i hinese against the US. me aun ee ver ie conce seven years of Clint utopian foreign policy instead of ¢ with us, they are actua paranoid bloc” (my isnow Moscow, Belgrade and Beijing ithe NATO andthe Islamic world. But fact they consider the United States an or moreprecisely fhe enemy Howelse can one interpret the Chinese iber, the ronly Cent ¥NATO” blocis no id Northern Europe United States. NATO the Tibetan monks, Taoists, Roman : Catholics, Protestants and Muslims! government's response to the bombing? o SI pep in 1 atthere now One musts keep in minc rales brave new wi of G ved, the Beijing regime has un Andby carefully orchestrating all of Goorived axis that stretches from Bel- reaches even into far tions and the Serbians’ minds, Slobodan the ancient GAL ERESS SYNDICATE Minister Yevgeny Primakov may “new be P same. € octet 0 1, do wmel national Peace here, put it best wrote on The New York Times op/ed page > week’s events: “While adminis: utopian geopolitical dreams had gravity tions E Naveseen, once true face of the _ gee askeditself as so remarkably in lockvith the worst Chinese communists past that one has toconcludethat all . this. the Chinese government has shown, beyond the shadowof a doubt, thateven Well before the bombing, it had entered neredible economic progress of the !nto a new period of virulent country in the world has led to few Beijing’s government-organized monstrations, even the religious tutes the most progressive parts of the world. ‘— : What next? Former secretary of state murder. For if he permits ovo negotiation to be that China is a new“strategic partner broadcast about the Serbs’ mass killing: ical imperatives to rule Asia if only we That same informationblac Kout has been ii do activists do when the fight is Well, if you're a feminist in the mold they blame every “aggression” on NATO, nt every day in Russia as wel , algh the firing of hard-line Prime ROBYN BLUMNER ae magazine founder Gloria Steinem The Undeclared War Against American Women, which had women and the media = mal Organization for Women now finds China is opposed to our policy in Yuge slavia they thinkit threatens (their control of) their own minorities. And so China is making a bet that the US. will We not engage them al any cos ition’sgone. for us someone did Young, columnist for the Detroit 1s written a wonderfully fresh ut calls the vocal feminist com 0 the mat. She exposes the move » of exaggeration, untruths and gue attempt; to ving a desperate ha IneecHOk ne GENS GontInaRa { In Ceasefire!: Why Women y to blow we . parities and Join Forces to Achieve Tr who calls herself a “di uses hard facts and clear away claims by eminists F . . ST:PETERSSURG MES treat violence toward women more I y than violence toward men. Gen not merely a in pay and job . status are today nt hie the bookprov ne not silenced or ignored in room.” Young writes. “Medicine lected women's health. Abuse t \ cause of injury men: the courts do not A determined grou; And maintain the ae edge ¢ ten have a Kernel of truth, Young details through meticulously foot- to be allowed into military tions, mm havingto hear off: combat along- side men, but don't want the facts were blatantly wrong and that the ognize that a husband can trend for women’s economic and political success has been on the rise. But Young really gets to the heart of the radical feminists have wrought »en the sexes when she talks about ; those who see women only as victims and jon only oppressors Ina section of the uy titled “Innocent yictim of a ¥ beating are the weaker se But “victim feminists” aren't the on! ones at the receiving end of Young's rea: oned Conservative ¢ tradi paternalism are also pared. s the past is airbr Wendy Shalit an Gricendentwhorelaitn that vomen from the need to be chaste, the women’s rights to women’s wron; These feminists condemn men for n tributing their fair share toward r Vivisection. y call for a return to tional vs has dar | appiness by “ om giving men sexual opportunities without the ot jas bog of that women should automatically be given child custody following a divorce because womenare naturally more nur- These authors unfairly suggest that men would slough off commitment if ca. sual sex were readily available. Whereas spent their r m. it la | turing and bonded to childrer tat accept tt r ‘ unhappily married parents shouldn't stay together for the sake of the ch ldren,” say to protect women’s deli ligation to support their familie shed light (and reality) on all those id overstated: women-as-victim archy claims dissects Susan sion dies by the illusion? Certainly the govern ing the kids and at the same time assert Jividuals refuse to legally 100 that makes He who lives by the sword dies by the whom, and surveys (show) that w They demand that men and women be treated equally at work, but then call on noted references that many of Faludi’s actual statistics ety. Slow, heavy, traditional { Past t, Past and t F ixury t ca y clude luxury " on MV ). BM who abandons tead, Ur he t ate Dr ut even if the litlerences more com individual variation should keep u anything about a pe based on gender A boy will do better than a girl 63 percent of the ever the ason. But if ve eaten issume that a mal a female, whether in | helping a student make \ test time, what aticall ik it ne sion. you'll be wrong n¢ times.” You! What Ceasefire! dc human: form are complr ft indu ad th the idua And that heros and 1 both male and female pack As Young say Women are froin well leart ! finger-poin! happen to be o} But, she cau et mon in one sexthan the other. they remain active. they lispute that generalizations about They stay fit in Montana y Machine Murray BMW of Murray The Ultimate Driving Machine* Or, call 1-800-334-4BMW. Internet address: www.bmwusa.com and the conflict’s solutions isteccns you want tocheer aloud. Finally someone Faludi’s feminist they na way enemies of NATO's intentions sword? Maybe. He who lives by the illu color jokes on the job. They want women consequer eat sek Hise a Women and Bad Men,” Young descrit ee progress fore hypocrisy of ferainisteawhe fave. rally, strong support turned the focus of their activism f the world is still the UN. Se cate sens ler and hope no one notices that the any final Kos both have a veto, then he will have put this terrible conflict in the hands of the society has wrested back the gains women have made economically and politically. say could racist mass curity Council, where China and Russia boo-hooing over the contrived notion that lent Patricia Ireland, you fight ky faresaclie itain or Germany still lose this war against First of all, we should stop apologizin We made clear it was an accident. But himself more critical. He said this Week: toward ard poli if he still insists upon proponent of engagement, dreams of being a super-race. But few re- (’s Timeto Call for a Cease-fire in the Battle of the Sexes Is. reali pta e doe Henry Kissinger, who has been a prime supposedly transforma technology ind investment. That t of the great buried stone warriors Xian: first. the Buddhist monks, then NATO. con The next problem is Americ 5) is whethe reside C uae erica adopt realistic po! Milosevic has mesmerized his people with which will suddenly drop all ofits histor- ups marched in serried ranks remi- de to Beijing and even to Moscow “Most people know that, since 1989, yrough a total control of communica and the Black Sea nations. thhat nediatel of the Chinese heft of American nuclear secrets. lize that the Chinese government also has allowed nothing to be printed or This has been coming for a long time, id communist “Big Lie,” all over n - communications” an information- wannabes today are 19 nations at the core plus 25 related countries. plus a rapidly e xpanding: NATO TO consciousne consciousn Tr na Organ ind, 3) dismiss alle but ithas been covered up by the Clinton administration’s persistence in believing anti-Americanism. tical or psychological changes. It is “instant brave newworld of xists in this cluding Taiwan in th met tofa U.S_-backed ¢ mn) Barth 1 |
