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Article: A message for Beijing: Washington commits to democracy in Hong Kong.(Brief Article)
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- April 28, 1997
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HIS DETRACTORS CALL HIM "MARTYR Lee." There's something awfully righteous, even spinsterish, about Martin Lee, the leading democratic activist in Hong Kong. But in a meeting last week with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the normally straitlaced lawyer displayed a flash of rare passion. When Albright asked him if she should attend the July 1 ceremony marking Hong Kong's handover from Britain to China, Lee responded unhesitatingly. "You must come... You must be there publicly, to show the Chinese your commitment to Hong Kong." That clinched it. "We consulted very quickly," a senior State Department official said later. "We didn't want to spend a month with every ...