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Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been invited to lead the U.S. delegation to United Nations International Woman's Conference in Beijing, has a diplomatic problem now that China has detained American human rights activist Harry Wu. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a solution. In an interview with The Washington Times published today, Gingrich said the U.S. should try to move the conference out of Beijing in protest. If not, he warned, the House might simply cancel funding for the U.S. group.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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