Subject: CND-Global, June 7, 1993

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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 23:29:07 -0500

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                            Monday, June 7, 1993

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1. News Briefs (3 Items) ................................................ 24
2. Chinese Immigrants End Odyssey off New York in Despair, Death ........ 50
3. Pollution, Man Threaten China's Environment .......................... 32
4. China Plans Nuclear Power Plant for Hainan ........................... 42
5. June 7, 1989: "Quiet Day, Only Two People Shot";
                 Foreigners Scramble to Leave China ..................... 98
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1. News Briefs (3 Items) ................................................ 24
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[Japan Economic Newswire, 6/6/93] SEOUL -- Tian Jiyun, vice chairman of
China's National People of Congress Standing Committee, arrived in South
Korea Sunday for a weeklong visit to hold talks with South Korean President
Kim Young Sam and business leaders. Tian is the first Chinese parliamentary
leader to pay a visit to South Korea.  China and South Korea established
diplomatic ties last August, ending more than 40 years of animosity.
(Forwarded by: Jian Liu)
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[UPI, 6/5/93] Indonesians Hermawan Susanto and Joko Suprianto advanced to
the final of the Badminton World Championships at Birmingham, England.
Susanto defeated Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen of Denmark 10-15, 15-2, 15-10, and
Suprianto defeated countryman Ardy Wiranata 18-14, 15-3. Indonesia is
guaranteed its first men's singles champion since 1983, when Icuk Sugiarto
won. In the women's semifinals, Bang Soo-Hyun of South Korea saved two
match points before beating reigning champion Tang Jiuhong of China 11-3,
10-12, 12-10, and Susi Susanti of Indonesia eliminated China's Ye Zhaoying
12-10, 12-10.  (Forwarded by: Bo Xiong. Originally posted to
Soc.Culture.China by Weiqing Huang <[email-masked]>)

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2. Chinese Immigrants End Odyssey off New York in Despair, Death ........ 50
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Forwarded by: Jian Liu
Source: DJ NEWS
Date: 6/6/93

NEW YORK -- Hundreds of illegal Chinese immigrants jumped into the chilly
Atlantic before dawn Sunday when a smuggling ship ran aground on a New
York City beach.

Four people drowned, two died later and more than 20 others were treated,
officials said.

More than 200 people fled the ship and about 100 others were taken ashore
from the freighter.

Officials were looking for about 25 people believed still at large.

"It looked almost like the movie about the invasion of Normandy," said
police Det. Ming Li, who arrived shortly after the 150-foot freighter
Golden Venture ran aground at 2 a.m.

Some swam and waded to shore clutching plastic bags of belongings. Others
rode the surf in, using plastic jugs as makeshift floats. Many had to be
fished out of 53-degree ocean waters off Rockaway peninsula in the borough
of Queens.

The freighter hit a sandbar about 200 yards off a seaside park, near a
Coast Guard station. Police were investigating whether the ship beached
itself intentionally to offload its human cargo.

Most aboard were from China's Fujian province and had been at sea about
100 days, said William Slattery, director of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service in New York.

Most of the immigrants were young men; about 20 were women.

INS officials report a rising tide of China immigrants attempting to sneak
into the U.S., aided by smugglers who charge $20,000 to $35,000 per person.
More than 1,800 illegal Chinese aliens have been caught since January.

Immigrants often must work off their passage with years of indentured
servitude.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said investigators suspect Asian gangs
in the city may have funded the ship's journey. He said 13 crew members
will be prosecuted on smuggling charges.

The ship's master was identified as Amir Humanthal Lumban Tubing, 44, who
has an Indonesian passport. Li, who spoke to some immigrants, said they
were "all heavily pre-rehearsed. They know to ask for political asylum."

The detective said some told him they'd paid the equivalent of $3,000 in
down payments, along with agreeing to be indentured.

Refugees told police the ship made several stops in China to pick up
passengers. New York apparently was their intended destination.

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3. Pollution, Man Threaten China's Environment .......................... 32
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader
Source: UPI
Date: 6/2/93

BEIJING -- Environmental experts criticized China's lackluster effort to
protect the environment, warning that man and widespread pollution are
killing off wildlife and food supplies and reducing valuable cropland, an
official newspaper said Thursday.

On the same day that China's cabinet Wednesday reissued a regulation
outlawing trade in rhinoceros horn and tiger bone, Chinese
environmentalists warned in a report that poor enforcement was
undermining the effort to maintain its deteriorating environment and
animal diversity.

"Even where excellent regulations exist, standards of implementation on
the ground remain very weak," officials from the China Council for
International Cooperation on Environment and Development cautioned.

Like many other environmental treaties and edicts China has signed, the
strongly worded order from the State Council, China's cabinet, did not
specify what policing tactics would be employed to carry out the ban.

"Sales, purchases, transportation, carrying and posting of rhinoceros horns
and tiger bones are all prohibited," the State Council edict said,
according to the official Xinhua news agency.

Despite the renewed ban by mainland and Taiwan authorities, Chinese and
other Asians conduct a thriving trade in rhino horn and tiger bone, which
are highly sought-after for their purported restorative powers.

China officially spends about 1 percent of its GNP on protecting the
environment, but council officials said a lot more is needed to tackle
life-threatening levels of pollution.

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4. China Plans Nuclear Power Plant for Hainan ........................... 42
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Forwarded by: Deming
Source: Reuter
Date: 6/6/93

BEIJING -- China is planning to build a 350,000-kilowatt nuclear power
station on Hainan, the country's southernmost island and a booming special
economic zone, the official China Daily said on Sunday.

Chen Zhaobo, executive vice president of the China National Nuclear Corp
(CNNC), told the newspaper the nuclear project was set for Dongfang county
in western Hainan, pending central government approval.

The plant, a joint construction project of CNNC and the Hainan Electricity
Corp, would take five to seven years to build, Chen was quoted as saying.

With a second generator to be added in the next phase of construction, the
entire project was expected to cost about two billion yuan ($372 million),
he said.

"Investment will be raised by issuing shares and foreign funds will be
sought," the China Daily said.

Chen told the China Daily that plans were being made to build more nuclear
plants to help satisfy surging demand for energy brought about by fast-paced
economic development.

Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces both proposed to build second nuclear
power plants, while Liaoning in northeast China had agreed with Russia to
jointly build a nuclear plant with two one-million-kilowatt generators, the
newspaper said.

China now has one operational 300-megawatt nuclear plant installation in
Qinshan in central Zhejiang province, which is set to be expanded with the
addition of two 600-megawatt generators.

In a much larger project, China is also building a joint-venture nuclear
power station in Daya Bay, about 50 km (30 miles) outside the British colony
of Hong Kong in southern Guangdong province.

Technicians last week completed loading nuclear fuel into the first of Daya
Bay's two 900-megawatt reactors, which is expected to begin trial operations
soon.

Daya Bay, which is 25 per cent owned by a subsidiary of Hong Kong's China
Light and Power Co Ltd, has been hit with a number of delays since work
began in 1987.

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5. June 7, 1989: "Quiet Day, Only Two People Shot";
                 Foreigners Scramble to Leave China ..................... 98
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Source: Compiled by Zuofeng Li from Knight Ridder, Chicago Tribune, Reuters
[Editor's note: this is the last installment of the 1993 CND June 4th
                Memorial Series]

Swept by alarms, reverberating with the crump of distant artillery fire
throughout the night, Beijing looked scarred and battle-worn Wednesday
morning as rival armies appeared to be wrestling for control of the city.

But it seems optimism must find some outlet in these desperate days.

"We had a quiet day. Only two people shot that I know of, at least in this
neighborhood," one man said.  He was standing next to his bicycle at the
intersection of Dong Dan and Chang An Avenues.

Chang An, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, has been crunched up and deeply
furrowed by the treads of tanks, armored cars and trucks, which come and go
in thunderous convoys, heading east to the city's outskirts at night and
returning in the morning.

Thousands of troops, many firing long bursts wildly in the air, moved out of
Tiananmen on Wednesday morning.  While the convoy rolled east, other troops
were reported approaching the city centre from the south, giving rise to the
theory that a rotation of forces was taking place.

Many Beijing residents say they want troops loyal to the reformists in the
Communist Party leadership to confront units which led the bloody Tiananmen
assault.

A queer etiquette exists within the city. People out on necessary errands
have to pass key intersections where troops, and sometimes tanks, are
stationed.  When they go by, they avert their eyes. When they are within
earshot of the soldiers, they lower their voices.

Many people are leaving the city for safer places. Long parades of people
carrying cloth bags and belongings tied up in blankets can be seen heading
for the Beijing railroad station, and train whistles blow through the gray
mornings, unnaturally loud in this unaccustomed silence.

Water supplies are beginning to fail sporadically in high buildings in the
city. Long lines are forming at the few shops and vegetable stalls still
open.  Food is twice as expensive as usual.

Governments and business firms around the world scrambled Tuesday to get
foreign nationals out of China as fears grew that the country could be
plunged into civil war.

Some governments chartered special planes for a mass evacuation reminiscent
of the alarm that swept the foreign community in Iran during the 1979
Islamic revolution. At least three special charter flights were sent to
Beijing on Tuesday, and others were expected.

Most major Western countries, fearing the worst, told their nationals to get
out of China as quickly as possible. Some big American corporations already
have begun pulling their staffs out of China.

Hundreds of anxious foreigners jammed airline offices and swamped embassy
switchboards with telephone calls seeking advice. Some 2,000 frantic
foreigners crowded into Beijing's airport to await the first plane out,
terrified by the weekend carnage and the presence of tanks near their
apartment compounds.

In Shanghai, angry crowds set fire to a train Tuesday night after it roared
into Shanghai's rail station, killing six student protesters manning a
barricade near the tracks. Six other people were injured by the train, which
was unable to stop in time.

Shanghai Radio said that the irate crowds set fire to the train engine and
that 21 railway security officials were beaten and injured when they tried
to put out the blaze.

Thousands of Hong Kong residents donned black armbands and observed a
one-day general strike in the British colony on Wednesday to mourn the
victims of the Beijing bloodshed.

An Italian businessman returning to Hong Kong from the central city of
Chengdu said he saw a girl bayonetted to death on Sunday morning.  The
businessman, who asked not to be identified because he might have to return
to China, said he saw from the window of his office soldiers arrive in a
truck, fire teargas and advance with fixed bayonets, shooting as they went.

"I saw with my own eyes a girl, 15 to 16 years old, with a bayonet inside,"
said the businessman, holding both hands to his stomach.

He said the girl was about 20 yards (18 metres) away from him at the time.
The soldier then bayonetted her twice more in the chest and left the body
on the street.

A British businessman returning from the same city said: "Chengdu is
burning.  It is seriously out of control."  On Monday night he and another
foreigner were in the Jinjiang Hotel when it was attacked by a mob and a
small fire was started.  About 45 foreigners moved to the private quarters
of the U.S. consulate in a wing of the hotel on the second floor.

British engineer Rob Casey, 47, who also took shelter in the consulate,
said the rioters were hooligans and unemployed troublemakers, not students.

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