mr. hellman: in the back there. yeah. blue shirt. questioner: [inaudible] my question is, was there also a national security rationale on president clinton's decision to let china join the w.t.o. or to push for china joining the w.t.o.? ms. albright: let me -- from what i know about this, is first of all, we were generally trying to figure out an improved relationship with the chinese. i am the oldest person signature up here. and was part of the carter administration. and one of the issues there was in fact the normalization of relations with china and trying to figure out, again, how to bring them into the system. most of the time that we dealt with china, we had to look at the most favored nation clause and also judge their human rights activity and it was -- made the chinese crazy and really it was like pulling up a plant to see if it was growing. and it really made for a lot of problems. so one of the things that the clinton administration did first was to go for permanent trading relations. and that was the beginning. and then

was there for the count notice that mr hellman was armed with a pistol so he turned to him and said no no no no you have to get rid of that pistol give it to the other officers here you're under the protection of the un and when you're protected by the un there are no weapons. with no military escort no protection other than the u.n. flag. burning docks convoy and to the jewish jerusalem. after a few hours spent visiting the former british governor's house they headed to the y.m.c.a. for the night. as they left andres soho a french colonel traveling with the u.n. convoy us tilman to do him a favor. them a hundred or so bit and i thought right away the liaison officer swapped seats in bernadotte scar and goes to sit in another car in the convoy care should be the move the upload. and switches with colonel servo who asked for the chance to thank bernadotte for the red cross campaign that had saved his wife from a german concentration camp a. little strong. so close wife had been liberated by one of the white fusses. his gratitude would cost him his life. heading towards the y.m.c.a. the

hellman. ofellen ratner is the sister -- she is one of fox news's few lefty pundits. hellman'seads lillian testimony. [applause] i am also build jericho -- i cousin,bill jericho's so there is a connection. mrr subpoena to appear before your committee on may 21, 1952. i am most willing to answer all questions about myself. i have nothing to hide. there is nothing in my life of which i am ashamed. under the fifth amendment, i've a constitutional privilege to declined to answer any questions about my political opinions, activities, associations, on the grounds of self-incrimination. i do not wish to claim this privilege. i am ready and willing to testify before the representatives of our government as to my own opinions and my own actions, regardless of any risks or consequences to myself. if idvised by counsel that answer the committee's questions, i must also answer questions about other people and that if i refuse to do so, i can be cited for contempt. my counsel tells me that if i answer questions about myself, i will have waived my rights under the fifth amendment and can be forced legally to answer questions about others. this is difficult for a layman to understand. there is one princi