ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Monday, November 18, 1996              TAG: 9611180142
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A6   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON 
MEMO: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

HUANG LOSES JOB WITH DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE

John Huang, the Democratic Party fund-raiser at the center of a controversy over the soliciting of foreign funds, has lost his job at the Democratic National Committee, a spokeswoman said Sunday.

The committee's Amy Weiss Tobe denied that the action against Huang was punitive. She said he was among 105 people being let go as part of post-election staff reductions.

``He was let go as part of our downsizing,'' Tobe said. ``John Huang was let go with the other 26 people from the finance division.''

She said she did not know whether Huang would return to his previous job with the Commerce Department or anything else about his plans. Huang's Washington lawyer, Jack Keeney, did not immediately return a message left for him at home.

Tobe said the committee also was returning a $5,000 check received from a woman at a fund-raising event at a Buddhist temple in California. She said the check was returned because the temple's attorney said Friday the woman who wrote it was a foreigner who lacked permanent-resident status.

- Associated Press

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