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Friday, November 8, 2002
President outlines agenda
puts homeland security at to
WASHINGTON (AP)
President Bush, outlining a
legislative agenda after his
party captured both the House
and the Senate in midterm
elections, said Thursday his
top priority was legislation to
create a new Department of
Homeland Security. He said he
wanted it this year.
“The election may be over,
but the terroist threat is still
real,” Bush said in his first
public appearance since
Republicans swept the elec
tions.
Asked to sum up his reac
tion to the election. Bush said
it showed that “people want
something done.”
He said Congress should
not wait until next year, but
should take up the homeland
security bill in the post-elec
tion “lame duck” session that
begins next week.
”1 want it done. It is a prior
ity,” Bush said.
He spoke with reporters on
the eve of a U.N. Security
Council vote on a U.S.-backed
compromise resolution
demanding that Iraq disarm
under the threat of force.
Earlier Thursday, Bush
talked by phone with both
Russian President Vladimir
Putin and French President
Jacques Chirac to discuss the
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resolution. Both have been cool
to the hardline U.S. efforts to
confront Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein.
“It’s now time for the world
to come together to disarm
him.” Bush said. He said that
Saddam “must be cooperative
in the disarmament.”
Asked why the United States
was prepared to use force to
disarm Iraq, but not to move
militarily against North Korea,
which has admitted to having a
nuclear weapons program.
Bush said: “I do care about
North Korea...(but) we’ll deal
with each threat differently.”
“With North Korea, we’re
taking a different strategy ini
tially. We’re going to talk to
countries in the neighborhood
to convince North Korea it is
not in the world’s interest that
they develop” nuclear
weapons.
In Tuesday’s midterm elec
tions. Republicans recaptured
the Senate and increased their
margin of control in the House.
Republicans leaders were opti
mistic that the victories would
help them win passageof
administration proposals
had been stalled in the
by the Democrats whoh
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BEIJING (AP) — Preparing for a land
mark congress that is expected to install a
new generation of leaders, China’s commu
nist party pledged Thursday to modernize its
ideology to keep pace with a fast-changing,
increasingly capitalist society.
“China has entered into a new phase of
development, in which we are to build a
well-to-do society,” said Ji Bingxuan,
spokesman for the party’s 16th National
Congress, which opens Friday in Beijing’s
Great Hall of the People.
In keeping with the secrecy surrounding
the event. Ji gave no details of the personnel
changes planned at the congress, where
President Jiang Zemin, 76, is expected to
hand over the title of party leader to his 59-
year-old vice president. Hu Jintao.
But Ji indicated that a key theme would be
Jiang’s personal campaign — known awk
wardly as the “Three Represents” — to bring
entrepreneurs into the party and to amend its
constitution to give them a formal role.
“We will ... comprehensively implement
the important thought of ‘Three
Represents,’” Ji said at a news conference.
Jiang was picked to lead the party in
1989 by then-supreme leader Deng
Xiaoping, who launched the country’s eco
nomic reforms a decade earlier.
Jiang’s campaign is aimed at keeping a
party that still calls itself the “vanguard of
the working class” in control of a society
where reform has unleashed dizzying
changes. Some people have gotten rich, but
many face upheaval as state industry sheds
jobs in an attempt to compete.
Ji defended the decision to embrace
entrepreneurs, saying they would serve the
party — not weaken its revolutionary zeal.
“Workers, peasants, intellectuals, our
men and women in uniform ... are still the
backbone force of the Communist Party,” he
said. “This will further increase the influ
ence and cohesion of the Communist Party
throughout society.”
Preparations for the congress have
included sweeping efforts to tighten security
in the capital and to block any possible
demonstrations.
Hotels in Beijing have been ordered not to
accept Tibetans or Muslim Uighurs from the
restive Chinese northwest as guests, accord
ing to employees contacted at four hotels.
Nevertheless, activists used (he evenc
appeal for political change.
A group of 192 dissidents insid
in an open letter this week, urged dete
to release political prisoners and expi j
direct elections.
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ment cannot cover up more and more e:
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The relentlessly upbeat state pr
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flict. instead heaping praise onthepartlS
preparations for the congress.
The official Xinhua News Agencytfj
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saying communist publications were :
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communist movies. “University stuf
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