In October leading dailies in China carried a translation of a major policy speech by a foreign official. however. a lengthy section on human rights was dropped from the translation: I believe our State Department report on human rights conditions in China once again reflects very clearly how far China has to go and how deplorable civil rights and human rights conditions in China really are. And in the particular area of freedom of speech and press. we find there is a very. very rigid censorship that controls the media in China. Nowhere was that censorship more evident than in Beijings decision to pull the visas of these U.S. reporters seeking to provide coverage on the Presidents trip. I urge all of my colleagues in the U.S. Senate to read in its entirety the China Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1997.