THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, finally and completely converted from candidate Clinton's 1992 attacks on President Bush's China policy, now subscribes religiously to the notion that commercial engagement with the People's Republic of China will leaven the militaristic impulses of nascent hard- liners…

ON FEBRUARY 3, 1997, at its midyear meeting in San Antonio, the American Bar Association called for an end to the execution of violent criminals " unless and until greater fairness and due process prevail." The association's policy-making House of Delegates approved the measure 280-119, over the…