GTE must be in a position, if necessary, to vindicate its rights and ensure that all its concerns have been adequately and effectively met. This matter is important to GTE as both a customer and a competitor.

I'm profoundly disappointed in this decision, but we will nevertheless press on to vindicate Mark's rights on appeal.

I think it's important that we acknowledge that they have genuine concerns and fears. But I think their position isn't right.

We ask the Justice Department and the INS to abide by its own standards and by international human rights standards in the treatment of these detainees, ... To treat detainees inhumanely is to risk breeding hostility and anger against us where before there may have been none.

We ask the Justice Department and the INS to abide by its own standards and by international human rights standards in the treatment of these detainees. To treat detainees inhumanely is to risk breeding hostility and anger against us where before there may have been none.

I don't really have more to add to the statement. It's important that Taiwan unambiguously clarify its position.