From: "UCLA K.Y." <EDT2LRF@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Think twice before sending out your important message!
Reply-To: "UCLA K.Y." <EDT2LRF@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:22:00 GMT
Comments: To: ccnl <ccnl@UTARLVM1.BITNET>, china-nt <china-nt@UGA.BITNET>

Please don't put all the blames on the sender of the "s1216 vetoed" news.
Both the sender and the readers need think twice before geting upset.
I borrowed the phrase "think twice" from the attached mail because it's
really important to CSS now in the US, where freedom of speech is at its
maximum degree. Always beware that not every piece of "news" are fact or
correct or precise.

I does not imply C. Wang made this "vetoed" news. I can quite understand
such situation. Many of us CSS, including me, are not very strong at
listening comprehension. Usually this is the weakest section of our
TOEFL score.

However, let's THINK about Bush, a President of the United States, an
experienced American politician. He knows that any veto action taken on
a bill popular at both Houses of the Congress is a risky thing to do.
The Democratic Party will certainly use his veto to attack his administration,
especially before the ellection. So, the best strategy for him to keep
the negtive effect of his veto at minimum is to use low profile
approach such as "pocket veto" whenever it is possible.

Even if the "pocket veto" is not available, say, the Senate decide to
extend its session for two more weeks, it is still not good strategy
for him to veto S1216 IMMEDIATELY after it reaches his desk.
This way, he wastes 9 precious days that he could have delayed and used.
The later he make it public of the veto, the more time is at his
hand to lobby his friendly Senators to sustain his veto, while leaving
less time for the sponsors of the bill to gather enough votes to
override the veto. For example, he may spent 20 minutes at his dining
room with a few influential Senators to have breakfast talking about
China's still importance role in his new world order to pursuade them
that he cannot offend Deng Xiaoping too much.

Just as last time Rep. Pelosi's congretulation call make us confident that
it is S1216, not the "rule motion", passed the House, this time we need not
concern too much on confirming the news or not. Please read the IFCSS's
instruction sent out early this afternoon, follow it closely and try our
best.

Kevin

P.S. Even if S1216 does died late this week or next, we CSS still don't need
to upset too much. After all most of us will live longer than Li Peng, not to
mention those elderly who supports him open machine gun at TAM.

------------------------------TEXT-OF-YOUR-MAIL--------------------------------
> Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:25:22 CDT
> Sender:       Newsletter on Chinese Community <CCNL@UTARLVM1.BITNET>
> Subject:      Think twice before sending out your important message!
>
> It is very unfortunately that an unconfirmed (most likely wrong) message
> about the status of the protection bill was sent out. It only caused confusion
.
> I think we should avoid sending out wrong messages in the future. Life is shor
t.
> We cannot affort wasting any more time. Please think it twice before sending
> any important announcements.
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