US DEFENSE ATTACHE BRIGADIER GENERAL NEAL SEALOCK WALKS THROUGH A HAIKOU HOTEL LOBBY WITH ROBERT...

U.S. Defense Attache Brigadier General Neal Sealock (R) walks through a Haikou hotel lobby with Robert Miltensen (L) of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing April 5, 2001. China accused the United States on Wednesday of arrogance in refusing to apologize in their spy plane dispute, while Washington urged the release of the plane's crew to defuse an escalating crisis. With the future of U.S.-China relations at stake, Beijing offered no hope of early freedom for the 24-person crew three days after their EP-3 surveillance aircraft made an emergency landing on Hainan Island after colliding with a Chinese fighter shadowing it. CMC/CP