"The anti-Chinese sentiment is based on a simple and profound motive," said Robert Pastor, a political scientist at Emory University.

"The case is so compelling for it," said Robert Pastor, director of the Center for North American Studies at American University.

"I have monitored 20 foreign elections," said Emory University's Robert Pastor, who pioneered President Carter's election monitoring teams.

I faxed a copy to Robert Pastor, Mr. Carter's aide, who would hand it to him Sept. 12.

According to Robert Pastor, a former U.S. national security advisor, 74% of Americans polled approved of the action.

"I think that one can anticipate administratively that there will be problems," said Robert Pastor, a member of Jimmy Carter's observer delegation.

Robert Pastor (national security adviser, son-in-law to Robert McNamara)

"By and large, we haven't done it, though, because we don't have the resources," said Robert Pastor, a senior official at the center.

Robert Pastor said, however, that it was "inconceivable" the Carter Administration would have participated in such an arrangement.

"This is a diplomat unlike any other," said Robert Pastor, a former National Security Council aide, now a professor of international relations at Emory University.