Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 16:57:43 EDT From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu(Bo Xiong) Message-Id: <8908132057.AA02288@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> To: News_Recipient@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Subject: News Digest, Re-sending Via Old Route, August 13 (I) No.2 of August 10 ********** Questions And Answers About SCC Rebroadcasting Service *********** ============================================================================= From: SCC Rebroadcasting Service To: New subscribers ARPAnet : zhongguo-request+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET : zhongguo-request%andrew@CMCCVB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Popular Questions and Answers 1. What is S.C.C.? S.C.C. (stands for Soc.Culture.China) is a newsgroup on the world-wide computer network USENET. It was created on November 17, 1987. Since the beginning, there have been many articles of different subjects, cute or not, poured into this news groups, which engender many debates as one can imagine. All kinds of discussions, debates, information exchange, news update happen on SCC. It reaches to countries like USA, Canada, Britain, Australia, West Germany, Japan, France, etc. Its readership accounts to about 9,000 worldwide. Please check in your school to see if you have access to USENET (usually with Unix Operating Systems with the command rn. Some other system may also carry USENET news). You can try the command NEWS on VMS system or NETNEWS on CMS/VM. 2. I don't have access to USENET newsgroup, how can I receive S.C.C? A voluntary rebroadcasting service of S.C.C. has been established as an effort to promote communications and understanding among Chinese students (or anyone who is interested in China and/or Chinese affairs). The service first started in Cornell University, then moved to Carnegie Mellon University and now is stationed in Yale University with automatic rebroadcasting robot. If you'd like to receive articles from SCC, send in your e-mail to the addresses at the beginning of this message. To help us, please use the following: To subscribe to SCC, use this Subject line: Subject: Subscription to SCC To cancel subscription to SCC, use this Subject line: Subject: Cancellation of SCC Tip 1: Make sure that you don't have access to Usenet before making subscription request. Tip 2: Always ask for more disk space from your computer facility. Tip 3: Please tell us before hand when your account expires. 3. How is S.C.C. re-broadcasting being accomplished? YaleVM is one of the BITNET sites that carries USENET newsgroups. It loads news from its neighboring system four times a day and store them in files named by sequential numbers that identify their newsgroup and the order of their arrivals. A program called SENDSCC has been written that once a day archives all the SCC news files arrived since last re-broadcasting and sends it to subscribers through bitnet-@#$%net gateways. 4. Why all of a sudden I haven't received S.C.C. for quite a while? Several reasons may cause the delay: 1) Your computer account has expired and it refuses to receive email. 2) YaleVM may be on strike for a day or two (but not more than that) 3) The network link between Yale and the outside world may be cut off. 4) The gateway to your local area network may be down. >From our experiences, cause #1 happens with a higher frequency than the other 3 causes. Keep an eye on your account expiration date. Anyway, if you feel that it has been too long since your receiving of the last package, contact ZHONGGUO-REQUEST (see the addresses at the beginning). 5. For readers from Canada Marilyn Martin has set up a new sub-distribution list at UBC for SCC. She is the gateway master for CNDnet and offered this service. From now on all the add/remove requests on most .CDN and CA domain addresses can be done through: LIST-REQUEST@EAN.UBC.CA (note: you don't have to use this service) 7. What are the article numbers. Are they the identifications of the articles? The article numbers appeared in the Date and Subject fields of the package you receive are part of the names of the news files stored on YaleVM. It doesn't necessarily corresponding to the number of articles so far have posted on SCC, neither is it consistent with other news filing systems. We include them here mainly to identify the package and to provide you an idea how many articles are in the package. Note that the Message-ID of each article uniquely identifies the article. The Message-ID usually consists randomly or systematically generated alpha-numeric string and a site name, such as SK1234.TB5678@YALEVM.VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU. If you send two articles with the same ID, usually only one will show up. When citing an article, you usually also include the ID of the article. 8. How do I retrieve a backup copy? As volunteers with limited time and resources dedicating to this work, we cannot provide much service of this kind. Besides, limited amount of memory does not allow us to keep old packages for more than one month. If you can provide the package number, we are more than happy to re-send you the package, provided it is still there. There is a possible service for providing individual articles if you give the titles of the articles and the names of the authors of the articles and the possible date of the articles. Send all requests to the zhongguo-request address at the beginning of this message. The backups can go as far back as 2 months before they are purged. 9. Sister networks to help bring the Chinese community closer There are a few sister networks that have been established to help bring all the Chinese students and people together. Information exchange after the tragic 6.4 incident have been more efficient. There is a sister network called China-net. This is mostly used for the exchange of news. It is to inform the readers about activities to help make China a better place. You may want to ask anyone at your school if there is a local China-net distributor to read it. If not, then you may subscribe to the following address: Subscription address: net-cord@lab.ultra.nyu.edu Please send the following information: Name: School: Address: phone #: email: Another sister network for information exchange is the marriage of ENCS newsletter with the NEWS DIGEST. NEWS DIGEST is a totally volunteer group dedicated to informing the world-wide Chinese community of events concerning all Chinese. For more information as well as subscription requests, please send mail to the following: GXU@KENTVM.BITNET And last but not least, there is an Australian network now that was established by Angela Castro. Information about it maybe directed to this address: ARPAnet: ADMIN@AOLIN.TELEMEMO.AU 10. Is there any way to unpack the package and make reading S.C.C. easier? After calls for a program to handle so many articles in S.C.C., Qiqi ( dongq@baylor.bitnet ) has come out with RNEWS it ( in Pascal ) that meets the needs ( pleasant, aren't them ?). Here are the basic features of RNEWS. 1) it can give a list of the subjects with in the pak in order ( indexing them) at any stage. 2) it can give you the content of the specified article one screenful after another. 3) when one decides not to finish the article s/he is reading, it enables him/her to move to another article. 4) it can save the specified article into a file. 5) the help file is complete. If you like to try, please send a mail to Dong Qiqi directly for the program (in Pascal). (E-address: Qiqi_Dong@um.cc.umich.edu) It is about 200 lines long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [revised 8-8-89] Zhongguo-request addresses: ARPAnet: zhongguo-request@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: zhongguo-request%andrew@cmccvb =============================================================================== Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 22:39:44 EDT From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu(Bo Xiong) Message-Id: <8908150239.AA05086@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> To: News_Recipient@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Subject: News Digest For August 11 -- 13 Table of Contents: No.1 of August 14 1. CIDA Cut Off Funding To Chinese Students Who Want To Stay 2. Emergent Medical Service For Chinese Students 3. A Joke About Yuan Mu 4. Beijing Residents' Passove Resistance To Martial Law 5. Zhao Ziyang Refuses To Give In 6. Two Leading Intellectuals Expelled From Research Post 7. Embassy Worker In Austrilia Seeks Asylum (Three news packages sent out via old route since August 10) *********************** Note From The Sender ******************************* Due to the problem in re-distribution machine at toronto, I cannot send you any news package through our regular route and I have to send news via old route list until the problem is fixed, during this period, some of readers at your school or around might not be able to receive any news from me since they are not on my old route list, please you re-distribute the news to your Chinese fellow students. Thank you. Bo Xiong in the U.S. xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu **************************************************************************** 1. CIDA Cut Off Funding To Chinese Students Who Want To Stay ======================== News Report and Comments ========================== >From AS366223@YUOrion.BITNET Fri Aug 11 07:37:03 1989 The following is a letter just received from the head office of the Canada-China Management Education Programme Phase II (CCMEP), concerning the funding of those Chinese students who are currently in the training programme. Obviously this is a heavy blow to the participants in the programme, because it is clearly stated in the letter that the funding to those students shall be cut off 'on the day upon which a trainee/scholar requests a change of status'(i.e. if they apply for permanent residence under the humanitarian and compassionate status). Here is the full contents of the letter: To: ALL CCMEP II TRAINEES/SCHOLARS DATE: AUGUST 1, 1989 FROM: THE CCMEP II NATIONAL COORDINATING SUBJECT: CIDA FUNDING POLICY OFFICE FOR TRAINEES WHO APPLY TO CHANGE THEIR VISA STATUS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIDA has requested that we inform all CIDA-sponsored Chinese trainees/scholars participating in the Canada-China Management Education Program II of the following general funding policy: CIDA funding should cease on the day upon which a trainee/scholar requests a change of status (i.e. from his/her original student status). For more information, please contact the program administrator or director at your university. Note: CCMEP II is a CIDA-sponsored project of the Canadian Federation of Deans of Management and Administrative Studies (CFDMAS) ___________________________________________ Comment: Obviously this new policy change contradicts the so-called sympathetic policy towards the Chinese students by the Canadian governments, federal, provincial, or municipal. It is even more ironic that on the one hand Canadian Government has provided $300,000 emergency fund for the Chinese students and on the other hand it is cutting off fundings for those students who are in the CCMEP programme. In particular this policy change coincides with the approval to the $200 millions loan to the Bank of China. Apparently hundreds of trainees in the programme will be affected by this policy change, and we hope that FCSSC will take immediate actions to stop this harassment on those students involved such that they can concentrate on their studies. From: Participants in the Nankai-York exchange programme at York University, Toronto, Ontario =============================================================================== 2. Emergent Medical Service For Chinese Students =============================================================================== Notice of OCSRC ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (Ontario Chinese Students Rescue Committee) The Chinese Canadian Medical Society which is part of The Federation of Chinese Canadian Profession ( FCCP ) has agreed to help the chinese students for the emergent medi- cal care. Those who are not under the ontario health insur- ance plan but are in need of medical care can seek the help from the medical society and have the medical treatment free of charge. All students in ontario are eligible for this service and the person to contact with is: Dr. Ying Seid 416-461-7547 607 Gerrard St. E. Toronto FCCP is preparing to help the chinese students on job-hunting and other related issues and the details will be worked out sometime next week. ============================================================================== 3. A Joke About Yuan Mu ============================================================================== >From: china@kean.mun.ca Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Hi, Here is a popular saying in China: Bu(4) guan(3) Yuan(2) Mu(4) hai(2) shi(4) fang(1) mu(4), [round wood] [ or ] [square wood] neng(2) zuo(4) guan(1) cai(2) jiu(4) shi(4) hao(3) mu(4). [can] [make] [ coffin ] [ is ] [good wood] ============================================================================= 4. Beijing Residents' Passive Resistance To Martial Law ============================================================================= >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Wed Aug 9 07:06:54 1989 [South China Morning Post, Wednesday, August 9, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- BEIJING RESIDENTS TELL OF RESISTANCE Residents of Beijing say there is widespread passive resistance to the martial law authorities and unconfirmed accounts of isolated attacks on soldiers. One diplomat quoted an official internal document as saying four soldiers were strangled to death in a park near the Temple of Heaven about three weeks ago. Shots residents suspect that snipers, using weapons stolen during the military occupation of the streets of Beijing before and after June 4, are firing on the patrols. Others believe soldiers are letting off warning shots. A defence attache recounted how a soldier was shot dead by a child on July 15 after he gave him his gun to play with. City spokesmen refuse to comment on anything about the army but official reports say many weapons were stolen. If any soldiers have been killed since June 4, their deaths have not been made public. But in an unusual admission of dissent, the official Economic Daily said earlier this month that a man "with a crafty smile" had offered poisoned water to thirsty soldiers patrol. "They saw through his plot," the paper said. Travellers on Beijing's subway said that on one occasion recently they were suddenly plunged into darkness to find anti-government leaflets on the train when the lights came back on. A foreign resident said he found a pro-democracy leaflet in his mail. Hard-liners within the Government are said to be weighing the consequences of lifting martial law in the face of passive protests, scattered resistance and huge financial losses. The lifting of martial law is believed to be a major discussion point among Chinese leaders plying back and forth between Beijing and the coastal resort of Beidaihe, where senior leader Deng Xiaoping is spending the summer. "They are under enormous pressure to lift martial law," a Western diplomat commented. "With hardly any tourists coming, they also stand to lose over a billion dollars." Reuter =========================================================================== 5. Zhao Ziyang Refuses To Give In ========================= Message from SCC Reader ========================= Zhao Won't Budge an Inch ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ According to the latest issue of Zheng Ming magazine (Aug.,1989) Zhao Ziyang, under house-arrest in Zhong Nan Hai, is refusing to surrender to Deng-Li-Yang's accusations. At two recent meeting (25/6 -15/7) with the Special Investigating Committee (Zhuan-An\ZuX), headed by Yang Shangkun, Li Peng and Qiao Shi, Zhao reiterated his points: 1. There is definitely no so called Zhao Ziyang Anti-Party Clique within CCP. 2. The "4.26 Editorial" of the People's Daily was wrong because of its misinterpretation of the reality. 3. In China there was no social atmosphere for chaos to appear. Student movement was a patriotic one and it should have been guided and protected by the central government. 4. Declaration of martial law in Beijing worsened the situation. People who made such a decision should take full responsibilities. ========================================================================== 6. Two Leading Intellectuals Expelled From Research Post ========================================================================== >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Thu Aug 10 09:08:04 1989 [South China Morning Post, Thursday, August 10, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- PARTY EXPELS TWO LEADING ACADEMICS Two leading social scientists who tried in May to persuade Chinese legislators to oust Premier Li Peng were expelled from their research posts yesterday. Yan Jiaqi, who fled to the West, and Bao Zunxin, who is believed to have been arrested, are the first party members to be expelled in the crackdown on dissent that has followed the June 3 to 4 army attack on student pro-democracy protesters. Many other academics have been arrested or lost their jobs. But even party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who was ousted from his party posts, has been allowed at least for now to retain his party membership. The official New China News Agency (NCNA) said Mr Yan and Mr Bao "were expelled because both had stubbornly clung to bourgeois liberalism over a long period of time". Bourgeois liberalism is the official phrase for Western-style liberalism. They also were fired from their research fellowships at the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Meanwhile, private human rights groups hope to arrange for dissident Chinese students to address a United Nations panel about the suppression of the pro-democracy movement, diplomatic sources said in Geneva yesterday. Associated Press and Reuter ============================================================================= 7. Embassy Worker In Australia Seeks Asylum ============================================================================= >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Thu Aug 10 09:08:04 1989 [South China Morning Post, Thursday, August 10, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- EMBASSY WORKER IN THE DARK ON ASYLUM [By Geoffrey Crothall] An employee at the Chinese Embassy in Canberra, who defected on July 1, is still waiting to hear if he will be granted political asylum. Mr He Ziqiang, who was the Chinese ambassador's driver, is now in hiding and is becoming increasingly anxious as the weeks drag on, Mr Yu Ling, who is protecting Mr He, said. Mr He had been a regular visitor to the protesters outside the Chinese Embassy after the June 4 massacre in Beijing, bringing them food and drink. On one occasion he made a speech condemning the Chinese Government. Following the ambassador's recall to Beijing, Mr He came under intense pressure from embassy officials. Fearing for his safety, he left the embassy on July 1 to seek refuge with Mr Yu after asking for assurances from Australian security officials that he would be granted asylum. Australian security officers who met Mr He soon after he left the embassy said they were willing to help him. But no assistance was given, according to Mr Yu. Officials in the Immigration and Foreign Affairs Departments told Mr He his application for asylum would be dealt with "as soon as possible" but so far nothing has been done, Mr Yu said. Chinese Embassy staff are stepping up their hunt for Mr He and there are fears that he may be forced to return to the embassy if he is not granted asylum. Following the June massacre, immigration officials were flooded by requests from Chinese students in Australia seeking refugee status. ============================================================================== Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 00:13:03 EDT From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu(Bo Xiong) Message-Id: <8908150413.AA06183@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> To: News_Recipient@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Subject: August 14 (II), News Digest For Chinese Students In Canada Table of Contents: No.2 of August 14 (Sent Via Old Route) 1. On CIDA Students' Situation --- A Message From FCSSC 2. IFCSS (US) News Release #1 3. Recent Imprisonment And Executions 4. Life Sentence For Mao Portrait Attackers 5. Li Peng To Visit Pakistan, Qian Qichen To Iran 1. On CIDA Students' Situation --- A Message From FCSSC =============================================================================== On Crisis of CIDA Sponsored Students --- Xiaohua Qu, for FCSSC We (FCSSC) are aware of this 'Crisis' and we are trying to approach some channels. The following is a brief report from Yuan Qiang, the vice Chairman (External) of FCSSC. However we are still working on this matter. On the other hand we also advise CIDA sponsored students to try other means of financial support as soon as possible. The local CSSA may be able to negotiate with the Graduate School of your own university on behalf of these students. (Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada) P/S.: Message from Yuan Qiang (Vice Chairman) --------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 18:09:11 EST From: PT132760@ADMIN.CARLETON.CA To: XQU Subject: CIDA I HAVE TALKED WITH CIDA CHINA DESK ABOUT THE SITUATION OF THE CHINESE STUDENTS WHO WERE SPONSORED BY CIDA. I WAS TOLD THAT IF CIDA ARE AWARE OF THEIR APPLICATION FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE,THEIR FUND WOULD BE CUTOFF FROM THE DATE OF APPLICATION. THIS IS THEIR POLICY. STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED A LETTER FROM CIDA EXPLAINING THIS POLICY. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT CIDA REQUIRE THE STUDENT TO REPORT TO CIDA WHETHER THEY APPLIED OR NOT. I GUESS NO STUDENT HAS REPORTED YET. MAYBE THEY'D BETTER NOT REPORT IT UNTIL CIDA FIND OUT. ACTURALLY I DON'T KNOW HOW CIDA CAN KNOW THAT IF STUDENTS DONT REPORT. I CALLED THE IMMIGRATION. THEY SAID THAT THEY WILL NOT RELEASE ANY INFORMATION TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS,INCLUDE CIDA. SO FAR, CIDA STUDENTS ARE STILL GETTING FUNDING FROM CIDA. BUT I DO SUGGEST THEM TO FIND OTHER MEANS OF FUNDING AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. ============================================================================= 2. IFCSS (US) News Release #1 ============================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 00:55:28 EDT From: Qin-Ye Yin Subject: IFCSS News Release #1 Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars News Release #1 The Federation Chairman Liu Yongchuan and Vice-Chairman Han Lianchao have been working in Washington D.C. for more than a week to legalize the Federation and establish a permanent headquarter. Here is the first news release of the Federation. I. The headquarter office has been established in Washington D.C. with four rooms. The address is: 733 Fifth St. N.W., Suite 440 Washington D.C. 20005 Tel: 202-347-0017 Fax: 202-347-0018 (Lines do not work till Aug. 18 because of the strike) II. Five working committees have been formed: a) Theoretical research committee: Chairman: Hao Jia (703-525-0731) b) Students affair committee: Chairman: Haiqing Zhao (617-491-1221) c) <> supporting committee: Chairman: Yong Zhang (517-355-9917) d) Selective sanction committee: Chairman: Fang Dai (313-763-9207) e) Rescue committee: Chairman: Yi Liu (614-297-8430) III. Another committee for "Washington March for China" on Oct. 1 has also been formed. The Chairman is Ben Tan (805-562-8622). The march, with other activities held in other cities, will be our big event to condemn the June 4th Beijing Massacre on the national day of the PRC. VI. Fund raising is in the process. About forty thousand dollars is on the way to our Federation. Other big funds are to be negotiated. The finance committee and finance regulation rule will be formed soon. V. Under the president and vice-president, the liaison department, department of public relation, department of information, operation department are going to be formed soon. A group of students are working for that. VI. In response to the article appeared in "Peoples Daily" dated August 2nd, 1989, bad mouthing our first Congress, the Federation has issued a statement, in which we again declare the nature, function and purposes of our organization, and rebut "Peoples Daily's" groundless charge. The statement will be released to the media very soon. If you have any advise and suggestion regarding current and future work of our Federation, you are more than welcome to contact us. E-mail network is one of our major methods to communicate with every university, but this account is only temporarily used for our news release. =============================================================================== 3. Recent Imprisonment And Executions =============================================================================== >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Sat Aug 12 15:07:26 1989 [South China Morning Post, Friday, August 11, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- 28 ACTIVISTS EXECUTED IN BEIJING [From Seth Faison in Beijing] A total of 28 men have been executed in Beijing for alleged counter-revolutionary activities on June 4, Chinese sources said yesterday. The executions, carried out in four groups of seven prisoners each, were performed near prison grounds on the outskirts of the capital, a source with close ties to the public security system said. All of those executed were young men accused of attacking martial law troops trying to enter Beijing on June 4. None was students or intellectuals, the source said. Public security officials have routinely declined to comment on executions, which are generally carried out with a bullet in the back of the head. The only public announcement of executions in Beijing related to the unrest, involved two men who met their fate last month. However, under the strict law-and-order atmosphere that has prevailed since the student-led movement was brutally suppressed, many prosecutors' offices have announced the executions of common criminals unrelated to the June 4 incident. In one such case, 18 executions were announced in Guangzhou on Wednesday. A Western diplomat compiling official reports of executions related to the unrest, has counted 20 publicly-announced executions nationwide, seven suspended death sentences and 56 other jail terms of various length. More than 4,000 arrests, including those involving common criminals, have been officially reported since June 4, while Chines sources estimate that the actual figure is in the tens of thousands. Exact figures have been unavailable, in part because some of those accused of anti-government activities have been detained for a few days, released, and then rearrested. There have also been numerous unconfirmed reports of other executions such as one which claimed last month that dozens were being killed under the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing. In addition to the recent executions, the source said, two young men died in police custody in Beijing. Many public security officials privately expressed disdain for the brutal way martial law troops have handled prisoners, the source said. In another sign of tension between the troops and police - whose work they have partially assumed - one witness said a truckload of soldiers was halted for nearly an hour last month outside the gates of the State Security Ministry. According to the witness, the troops demanded to enter the ministry grounds to search a building, but were prevented temporarily from passing into the compound by the ministry's own guards. Only when permission was obtained from a high-ranking official in the ministry were the troops allowed to enter. ============================================================================== 4. Life Sentence For Mao Portrait Attackers ============================================================================== >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Sat Aug 12 09:07:08 1989 [South China Morning Post, Saturday, August 12, 1989] --------------------------------------------------------------- LIFE TERM FOR MAO PORTRAIT ATTACKER A Chinese court yesterday sentenced a man from the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's home province to life imprisonment for defacing the huge portrait of the nation's founder in Tiananmen Square at the height of pro-democracy protests in May, an official newspaper reported. Two other men who participated in the incident were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, the Beijing Evening News reported. All three men came from Hunan province, birthplace of communist China's founder. They were arrested on May 23 after hurling ink-filled eggshells at the famed giant portrait of the Great Helmsman that hangs over the Tiananmen Gate to the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace, on the square's north side. The incident, which occurred at the height of the student occupation of the square, infuriated Beijing's leaders. It left Chairman Mao's face splotches and the stained portrait was hurriedly replaced with a new one. The Beijing Intermediate Court sentenced Yu Zhijian to life imprisonment, Yu Dongyue to 20 years and Lu Decheng to 16 years for crimes of "counter-revolutionary vandalism and counter-revolutionary propaganda and instigation", the newspaper said. United Press International ============================================================================= 5. Li Peng To Visit Pakistan, Qian Qichen To Iran ============================================================================= >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Sat Aug 12 09:07:08 1989 [South China Morning Post, Saturday, August 12, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- LEADERS SEEK TO REFURBISH IMAGE [By David Chen] With the June 4 crackdown in Tiananmen Square apparently behind them, the Chinese authorities are venturing into the world arena once again to recoup lost ground. Following visit to Europe and Africa by Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, the authorities are sending abroad to project their image the very man who signed the martial law orders. Prime Minister Li Peng, whose relatively agitated manner at a meeting on the night of May 19 stunned the world, is to make his first trip abroad since his brief visit to Japan in April at the time of Mr Hu Yaobang's death, which sparked student protests. Mr Li is due to visit Pakistan in November, repaying the trip made by his Pakistani counterpart, Ms Benazir Bhutto, in February. The announcement was made in Islamabad by China's Ambassador, Mr Tian Ding. In the interim period, Mr Tian said, there would be more contact at senior official level and Pakistani Senior Minister Begum Nusrat Bhutto, Ms Bhutto's mother, has been invited to Beijing. The ruling Pakistan Peoples' Party had been invited to visit China to allow the Chinese leadership to "express its gratitude to the Government and people of Pakistan for their support during and after" the protests, according to a New China News Agency report. At the same time, Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, who has just returned from a European and African trip, is about to make another overseas journey in October. Mr Qian is expected to take in several Middle Eastern countries in his trip, aimed at projecting China's image. These trips are useful to Beijing as both Pakistan and Iran have been very close friends and have refrained from commenting on developments in China. But the most welcome news for Beijing was Japan's recent announcement that it would probably resume economic aid. Although the announcement has come a little late, as China urgently needs foreign loans to meet its many domestic commitments, it was nevertheless a breakthrough. Meanwhile, Beijing is trying to put on a bright face for the outside world. The new Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of propaganda, Mr Li Ruihuan, has told the people of the capital to make National Day to October 1 a happy occasion. He was also reported to have told a visiting American businessman that the opening to the outside world was important for the country's modernisation program and in the interest of the people. China is also awaiting the visit of Mrs Anna Chennault, a senior American Republican Party member and chairman of the Heritage Foundation, who is expected in Beijing later this month for talks with leaders. She will be the most senior Republican leader to visit Beijing since the June 4 crackdown. Mrs Chennault's visit is expected to be followed by the visit of the United States' grand foreign strategist, Dr Henry Kissinger, whos controversial article in the Washington Post advocating realpolitik has been greatly appreciated in Beijing quarters, although it was severely criticised by liberals in the US. Since the troop crackdown, the Chinese leadership has encountered a series of diplomatic setbacks. It has also suffered a humiliating blow in the form of a decision by a tiny Caribbean country, Grenada, to recognise Taiwan. =========================================================================== Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 21:31:51 EDT From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu(Bo Xiong) Message-Id: <8908160131.AA03578@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> To: News_Recipient@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Subject: August 15 (I), News Digest Table of Contents: No.1 of August 15 (Sent Via Old Route) 1. 4-Hour Video Tape For Chicago Conference 2. People In Xian Are Not All Fooled By Deng-Li-Yang 3. Five More Chinese Performers Defected In US 4. Chai Ling Still In China 5. Author Of Notorious Article Found In Cambridge 6. One More Most-Wanted Student Leader Arrested 7. Students Must Work First Before Graduate Studies (Three news packages sent out on August 14; Please re-distribute the news) 1. 4-Hour Video Tape For Chicago Conference =============================================================================== From: cs519905@caesar.cs.umn.edu Subject: 4 HOURS VIDEO OF THE CHICAGO CONGRESS Per numerous requests, I've taken upon myself to distribute some videos taped during the First Congress at Chicago, on first-come-first-served basis, for those who weren't there, or those who were there yet want some vivid reminiscence. I've arranged a series of 4 parts, each part approx. 58 minutes, originally edited for cable-tv broadcasting in the Twin Cities, as well as duplication by student organizations here at the U of Minnesota (service of our Chinese Student News Bureau). The videos are of amateur but acceptable quality; the audio part, recorded from a direct microphone on the podium, is good. Contents (each part just below 1 hour) part 1: 7/28 Opening Ceremony: speeches by guests (edited) & Wuerkaixi (whole) part 2: 7/28 Opening Ceremony: "reports" by Wuerkaixi, Yan Jiaqi & Wan Runnan (video edited, audio complete) part 3: 7/28 Press Conference w/ dissident leaders (partial) 7/29 Election of President & Vice-president (edited) 7/30 Press Conference w/ Liu Yongchuan & Han Lianchao (partial) part 4: 7/30 Closing Ceremony: speeches by guests (edited), Li Lu, Yan Jiaqi, Liu YongChuan, Manifesto, announcements, etc. (whole) Cost (2 videotapes [SONY/MAXELL/TDK/FUJI], postage [airmail], share of duplication equipment rental): US: $18 (check or money order) Canada: US$19 (postal-money-order only, as bank charges $6 for check collection) International: US$18 (surface mail) (money-order only) US$25 (air mail) (money-order only) make checks payable to Aaron Cheung, and send to: Aaron Cheung, 425 13th Ave SE, #1606, Minneapolis, MN 55414. ** Send me email once you decided to get a copy ** so that I can start duplication for you. However, due to the relatively ** high cost involved, tapes won't be mailed out until your check is received You're welcome to re-duplicate the tapes for others.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ P.S. those who gave me videotapes at the conference for duplication, I've mailed you back the tapes with the above contents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DISCLAIMER: 1. This distribution is NOT funded by any organization; I voluntarily taped for our local Chinese Student News Bureau, which is an umbrella committee formed by the Mainland, Taiwan & Hongkong students at the U. of Minnesota to translate Chinese newspapers into English for use by a major local newspaper in the city, as well as for CSNB's biweekly "China News Digest", and to produce cable-tv programs. 2. This distribution is NOT from the Federation of the Independent Chinese Student Unions in the United States newly founded at Chicago 3. The tape contents should be viewed at NEWS, rather then propaganda. 4. This might NOT be the only offer of news tapes about the Congress; (offers from other individuals or organizations might be coming up) 5. Don't flame me for making money, because I'm not. I've spent $400+ and not even a single dollar was funded or sponsored by anyone or any organization (never asked for). Your cost will cover only the two videotapes, postage, and duplication equipment rental... 6. Inevitably, guess I've to add that "I reserve the right to stop taking requests, once I find requests too volumous to handle". :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward." -Abraham Lincoln, 5/19/1856 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aaron Y. T. Cheung, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. (612)-623-8026 ============================================================================== 2. People In Xian Are Not All Fooled By Deng-Li-Yang ============================================================================== From: rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu (Rupert Zhu) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: People Are Not All Fooled by Deng-Li-Yang, A Xian Student Said -------------------- Message from a Xian Jiaoda Student ---------------------- About 3,000 Xian Jiaoda (Xian Transportation University) students stayed in Tiananman Square supporting Beijing students during the period of May 18 to June 4. According to Jiaoda's official report, three of them were killed during Beijing Massacre. But many people doubt such a small number. The exact number will be obtained when all students return to school at the beginning of Fall semester. Mr.Zhou, one of 21 leaders, was arrested in Xian in June after his elder sister informed Police Bureau. A lot of people gathered in front of his sister's home and wanted to kill his sister. On the other hand, Mr.Yang Tao, a Beida student and in the most wanted list, was arrested in Lanzhou city. His parents in Fuzhou received gifts and money from many concerned people. No one care about Deng,Li,and Yang. In June, it was once rumoured that Deng died. Suddenly that day, "bian(1) pao(2)" was sold out in Xian downtown. One peasant told me: "My tractor can kill a person, who can believe that Tanks didn't kill students". Today, most Chinese people in China know that Li Peng is lying to people. Chinese people are waking up now. BEAUTIFUL CHINA WILL COME SOON! My FRIENDS, DON'T DISAPPOINT ! ============================================================================== 3. Five More Chinese Performers Defected In US ============================================================================== From: rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu (Rupert Zhu) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Title: Five Acrobat Group Vanish Before Return to China by: W. Wolff, special to New York Time (The following is only a brief. The detailed report can be found on New York Time, Aug 8, Tuesday) The Chinese Acrobatic Group is originally from Nanjing(?) to perform for the Big Apple Circus in New York City. After their performance in Vermont, four performers disappeared without trace. The group then returned to New York City and the group leader held a meeting to try to figure out where those four have went, they discovered another one, who is a translator, has disappeared also. The officials from the Consulate said that while he has not yet spoken to directors of the Circus, they are holding it accountable to the Big Apple Circus. It is reported that there is no officials from Chinese government came together with this group which may have made this escape easier. The officials from US Immigration and Naturalization Service has issued a statement that non of the disappeared performers and translator has contacted INS to seek to asylum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information Exchange --------------------- rzhu@violet.uwaterloo.ca (in Canada) Rupert Zhu (in Canada) rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu (Elsewhere) =============================================================================== 4. Chai Ling Still In China =============================================================================== From: hehuang@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (He Huang) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china According to the World Daily, an officer in the Huamn Right Committee of UN claimed a few days ago in Geneva that the report of New York Times that Ms. Cai Ling will be attending the UNHRC and testifying with other exile dissidents might be wrong. However, the Human Right Committee has never invited Ms. Cai Ling to the conference, nor has it been informed of the whereabout of her, the officer said. The New York Times correspondant might have written the news only from his imagination, he said. Some other sources close to China's exile dissidents also confirmed that the whereabout of Ms. Cai is still unknown yet. Mr. Wan Runnan claimed that if she had managed to escape, she would have contacted them. But none of those dissidents have got in contact with Ms. Cai, he said. The officer also said that Mr. Wu'er Kaixi and some other famous dissidents now outside China will be invited to testify in the Conference, but this does not mean that Mr. Wu'er and others will address the Conference. This year's Human Right Conference will mainly focus on the problem of "minority", it is reported. ================================================================================ 5. Author Of Notorious Article Found In Cambridge ================================================================================ From: lg@cl.cam.ac.uk (Li GONG on jenny) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: Findings from Inquiry on the "Wei Min" Issue Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, England. Li GONG President Cambridge Chinese Students and Scholars Association August 9th First of all, I'd like to take this opportunity to express thanks, on behalf of the Cambridge Chinese Students and Scholars Association, to those SCCers/Non-SCCers who kindly made suggestions to me as how to pursue the issue. As the letter (signed by "A Chinese Student in Cambridge, Wei Min", and published in Beijing Daily July 24th and People's Daily July 31st) has generated suspicion that the letter is a faked one, the Cambridge CSSA is under obligation to make a full investigation to establish the existence or non-existence of the author in Cambridge. Our findings follow: 1) The author DOES exisit in Cambridge though the real name is different 2) The person claimed authorship of the letter yesterday. Thus there is no question about the genuineness of the letter. 3) The person also claimed that the letter was written in May and it does reflect his/her thought at that time. The content is slightly different from what he/she wrote. Since we understand that we have fully achieved our goal, i.e. to establish the exisitence of the author, we shall not identity the person. In our point of view we consider the case closed. For those who lack background knowledge of this matter, please refer to the earlier postings on SCC with keyword Wei Min. Thank you all. [Personal note: Please do NOT email me for the name of the person, unless you are a Lord Justice with a court order :-) And as a former Tsinghua 80 guy, I declare that I am NOT the author:-)] ____________________________________________________________________________ | Li GONG (+44223-334650) University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory | | Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, England | | InterNet: lg%cl.cam.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu (or lg%cl.cam.ac.uk@nsf.ac.uk) | ============================================================================= 6. One More Most-Wanted Student Leader Arrested ============================================================================= From: yawei@AQUA.BACS.INDIANA.EDU Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: (AP) China arrests another most-wanted student Note: the newly-arrested student leader is Zheng Xuguang, in case you might confused this report with earlier unconfirmed reports on arrest of Cai Lin in Shenzhen. NEWS 8/10/89 Chinese Police Confirm Arrest Of Prominent Student Leader ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ BEIJING - Police in the southern city of Guangzhou confirmed Thursday they have arrested yet another of the country's most-wanted student leaders from the spring pro-democracy protests. Guangzhou officials also reported executing 18 people for theft or robbery. But they said the crimes were not connected with the pro-democracy protests. In other developments: - The Communist Party expelled China's leading computer entrepreneur, Wan Runnan, for having supported the student protests. The company he founded and headed, the Stone Group Co., also dismissed him as board chairman and president, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Wan, 43, fled China after the June 3-4 army crackdown. He founded Stone in 1984, building it into China's leading computer manufacturer and private corporate success story. - A company that distributes foreign-language publications to Beijing hotels said the order to ban the publications in July came from the Communist Party's policymaking Central Committee. The arrest of Zheng Xuguang, 20, of the Beijing Space and Aeronautics University, brings to seven the number of student leaders confirmed arrested from a national most-wanted list of 21. Police have refused to confirm unofficial reports that several others on the list have been arrested. =============================================================================== 7. Students Must Work First Before Graduate Studies =============================================================================== From: yawei@AQUA.BACS.INDIANA.EDU Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: (AP) Students must work before going to graduate school NEWS 8/12/89 China Orders Graduate Students To First Seek Work Experience ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ BEIJING - The government has ordered this year's college graduates to work for one or two years before pursuing graduate studies, an official report said Saturday. The move is an apparent effort to curb future student unrest. About 3,500 students planned to start master's and doctoral degree programs this fall, the China Daily said. But a State Education Commission circular said students, especially those in the social sciences, must first gain work experience. The order does not affect students who already have work experience, the paper said. The policy appeared to be another attempt to prevent a recurrence of this spring's popular pro-democracy student movement that was crushed by troops on June 3-4. The paper quoted an unidentified education commission official as saying the regulation is part of the govern- ment's efforts to reform university enrollment and job assignment systems. He said the order would signifi- cantly improve the background of people in the fields of applied and social sciences. The report said more than half of this year's new graduate students worked before continuing their studies. ============================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 22:08:27 EDT From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu(Bo Xiong) Message-Id: <8908160208.AA03955@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> To: News_Recipient@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Subject: August 15 (II), News Digest For Chinese Students In Canada Table of Contents: No.2 of August 15 (Sent Via Old Route) 1. Zhao Ziyang Attacked Again By Deng-Li-Yang Clique 2. One Year Of Military Training For New Students 3. Martial Law May Be Lifted Soon, Though Beijing Mayor Opposed 4. Beijing People Still Live In Fear Even If Martial Law Lifted 1. Zhao Ziyang Attacked Again By Deng-Li-Yang Clique ============================================================================== >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Tue Aug 15 09:07:20 1989 [South China Morning post, Tuesday, August 15, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- ZHAO BLAMED FOR CORRUPT PARTY CADRES [By David Chen and Geoffrey Crothall] The disgraced General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mr Zhao Ziyang, has been indirectly blamed for corruption in the communist hierarchy. The latest attack was made by Outlook Weekly, an official magazine of the New China News Agency (NCNA), in an article on the need to cleanse the party of corruption. Praising members of the Old Guard, such as Mr Deng Xiaoping and Mr Chen Yun, for stressing the need for clean government and getting rid of corruption, the magazine said Mr Zhao was not enthusiastic about these tasks. The magazine blamed Mr Zhao for protecting children of senior cadres engaged in lucrative business, claiming that they should be regarded in the same way as children of ordinary citizens. The magazine added that during a national session, the Governor of Zhejiang province, Mr Shen Zulun, suggested that children of senior cadres be forbidden form engaging in business. "Mr Zhao brushed aside the suggestion," the magazine said. The Guangming Daily, which has a new editor-in-chief, severely attacked Mr Zhao for his support of the screening of the TV series River Elegy. The play, the newspaper claimed, was designed to sing praise of the former party chief and prepared the way for him "to seize absolute power". River Elegy has called for a "New Era" and this was in line with MR Zhao's intention to create a "New Order". He had also encouraged certain sections of the Hongkong press to promote the power of "dictatorial reforms" and River Elgy provided the excuse for Mr Zhao to launch his salvo, the newspaper said. Analysts believe that the latest series of articles reflect a move by the conservative elements to put Mr Zhao on trial for "counter-revolutionary" crimes, for which he could be sentenced to death. @ Meanwhile, a survey in the central Chinese city of Anqing has indicate 84 percent of those interviewed were "not satisfied" with the Government's performance and that corruption of party and government officials was now the prime concern of ordinary people. One official, Mr Zhao Baoxing, head of the Anhui Provincial Committee for Discipline Inspection, said: "Corruption has sprung up at a time when the country is in a period of transition from the old system to the new." A teacher from the Anqing Teachers' University said: "The most important measures to overcome corruption are the establishment of an effective political supervision system, severe and strengthened supervision by the mass media. Empty talk will achieve nothing." Authorities in Anhui have investigated 1,797 case of corruption this year, punishing 1,708 party members, expelling 214 and stripping 59 of their posts, the NCNA said. ============================================================================ 2. One Year Of Military Training For New Students ============================================================================ >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Tue Aug 15 09:07:20 1989 [South China Morning post, Tuesday, August 15, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- MILITARY YEAR FOR BEIJING STUDENTS [From Seth Faison in Beijing and agencies] In a drastic move to control student activity, the entire freshman class of Beijing university will be sent for a full year of compulsory military training, university sources said yesterday. The head of the president's office, Mr Huang Weicheng, said October's intake of first-year students would also be cut to 800 from the more than 2,000 originally planned. "The students will go through military and political training. They, men and women, will learn basic culture and military affairs," he said. Students and professors were stunned by the announcement, made in department meetings last week, which they claim will further delay China's professed goal of educating its youth. A young teacher said: "It's scandalous. No new students for a year. It's a year completely wasted." The decision was made by the State Education Commission and appears to be one of several aimed at choking off further unrest on the campus, where the nation-wide pro-democracy movement began this spring. An expensive move, it means undergraduates will need five years, not four, to complete their studies. It was not immediately clear if the decision would affect students at other universities. Last week, officials said this year's 35,000 graduates would have to work in the countryside for one or two years before they could begin post-graduate studies. The remaining students will be closely monitored and forced to attend hours of political study each week. Deputy Education Minister He Dongchang was quoted as saying in the People's Daily: "We want to guide students so that they become close to the workers and peasants." "During the unrest and counter-revolutionary turmoil we painfully saw how students had gone farther and farther along the road of bourgeois liberalism," he said in an attack on Western political values. An official in the office of Beijing University president Ding Shisun said: "The State Education Commission decided that students need more discipline." "The first-year students assigned to military service, to be held in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, have been given a choice to matriculate at another university or to delay study altogether, the official said. Those who participate will continue foreign language study in addition to military service. Students have also been promised that they will receive higher salaries after they graduate, in line with usual practice of rewarding years of service in the military or rural areas with a nominal pay increase. The official added that the move would not affect the 100 "adult" freshmen who were joining the university after having previously worked in various ministries of the central Government. Foreign Ministry officials expressed shock at the news. "That's impossible," said an official in the information department. "That can't be. They must be going for one or two months." In fact, students at Beijing University have in recent years served an obligatory period of military service, which typically lasted two to four weeks. Some students who participated in large-scale demonstrations on May 4 were surprised to recognise soldiers and squad commanders who had been sent to maintain order in Tiananmen Square. But students also complained that during military service they learned little more than how to march in order and eat rations worse than the ones at university. Second, third and fourth year students are beginning the term early to make up for time lost during April, May and June, when classes ceased at most universities. But university officials are expected to try to prevent all unauthorised political activity, such as putting up big-character posters and making public speeches. Students who led the demonstrations this spring have been arrested, gone into hiding, or escaped abroad. A small demonstration at Beijing university's campus last month led to the expulsion of at least one student. The Guangming Daily last week reported that five of the nation's top university had "worked out measures to educate students' thought and politics". ============================================================================= 3. Martial Law May Be Lifted Soon, Though Beijing Mayor Opposed ============================================================================= >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Sun Aug 13 22:09:35 1989 [South China Morning Post, Sunday, August 13, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- MARTIAL LAW MAY BE LIFTED Beijing: Chinese leaders huddled yesterday in a long Politburo meeting and were believed to be considering lifting martial law in Beijing, amid reports of high-level differences on how soon to do so, Western diplomats and Chinese sources said. The government, meanwhile, ordered a tough new measure apparently designed to tighten its grasp on the nation's college campuses, announcing graduate students planning to enroll this September would instead be required to work for at least a year. It was the latest in a series of steps to expand controls on students, who led the pro-democracy protests this spring that blossomed into the biggest anti-government demonstrations since the founding of communist China in 1949. Martial law was imposed in Beijing on May 20 and the protests crushed by the Chinese army on June 3 in central Tiananmen Square. A sweeping nationwide crack-down on dissent has ensued. With speculation intensifying in recent days on the lifting of martial law, the Communist Party's ruling Politburo met for hours beginning yesterday morning at the Great Hall of the People, Western diplomats advised of the meeting said. The 15-member Politburo included Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin, Premier Li Peng and other senior leaders, but it was not known how many participated. Hongkong newspapers reported last week that Chinese leaders had agreed at meeting to lift martial law within the next two months, but diplomats and Chinese sources reported senior officials had differed recently over the timing. They said Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong, a member of the party Central Committee but not the Politburo, had argued for extending the measure, while senior military officials and some political leaders urged it be lifted sooner. Martial law is widely expected to be lifted sometime around the Chinese national day on October 1. This year is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the communist nation. ===== @ In Paris, an exhibition of previous unreleased photographs of the bloody repression of the Chinese pro-democracy movement opened at the Chinese House of Democracy on Friday. The shots were assembled by the Committee for the Democratic Struggle of June 4, an underground group created in Beijing on July 23 which smuggled them into Hongkong. Agencies ============================================================================= 4. Beijing People Still Live In Fear Even If Martial Law Lifted ============================================================================= >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Mon Aug 14 13:25:45 1989 [South China Morning Post, Monday, August 14, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- MARTIAL LAW MAY BE OVER THIS WEEK [From John Kohut in Beijing] China's leaders are considering lifting martial law in Beijing as early as this week, according to informed Chinese sources. One date cited for the cancellation of martial law is tomorrow, August 15. Another date mentioned is August 20. A third version is that troops still in the capital will start withdrawing from the city tomorrow and that martial law will end on August 20. During the crack-down on the student democracy movement in June, an estimated 200,000 troops were mobilised around Beijing. This number is now thought to be down to between 20,000 and 30,000. The sources said virtually all of those now in the capital would be moved out of the Beijing municipal area after an announcement is made. Western diplomats and Chinese sources say, however, that the lifting of martial law would be largely a gesture to foreign countries and would not significantly change life for Chinese in the capital. Heavy surveillance by thousands of plain-clothes police is expected to leave the tense political atmosphere in many work-places unchanged. The leadership's motivations for cancelling martial law could be largely economic. China, which badly needs foreign capital and investment, is eager to convince businessmen that life in the country has returned to normal since the Beijing massacre of June 4, referred to in the Chinese press as the quelling of the counter-revolutionary rebellion. Since June 4, many governments have advised their nationals to avoid travelling to China, a warning which has reduced tourist numbers to a trickle. Income from tourism this year is expected to be only half of last year's US$2.2 billion (about HK$17.1 billion). The lifting of martial law has been a point of contention in the political struggle still going on at the top levels of the Government, diplomats say. President Yang Shangkun, whose brother, General Yang Baibing, gained broad authority in commanding the day-to-day operations of the martial law troops, opposed a swift end to martial law, according to Chinese sources. The younger General Yang is political commissar of the People's Liberation Army and his name has appeared in official news reports with increasing frequency in the past two months. Others, opposed to the growing influence of the Yangs, are believed to have favoured an early lifting of the martial law order. The ultimate decision, analysts believe, can only be made by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. When martial law is lifted, Western diplomats expect some military forces to remain within a 200-kilometre radius of the capital, poised to enter the city again if necessary. Surveillance cameras have been set up all over the capital to watch road inter-sections, bridges and buildings. In addition, one Western diplomat noted, martial law troops have probably gathered enough information from the thousands of Chinese arrested over the past two months to feel confident they can prevent dissidents from regrouping. The Chinese leadership has made it clear that it would not tolerate any resurgence of public dissent. Arrests of civilians will not necessarily stop, diplomats and Chinese sources believe. Though Beijing is somewhat more relaxed than it was a month ago, foreign and Chinese residents report continued arrests both by martial law troops and the police. ============================================================================== Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 20:18:41 EDT From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu(Bo Xiong) Message-Id: <8908170018.AA14566@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> To: News_Recipient@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Subject: August 16 (I), News Digest Table of Contents: No.1 of August 16 (Sent Via Old Route) 1. Applying For US Visa In Beijing --- Difficulties And Experiences 2. Wu'er Kaixi Hid Under Timber During His Escape 3. Demonstration Prepared For October 1 (Two news packages sent out on August 15, Please re-distribute the packages) 1. Applying For US Visa In Beijing --- Difficulties And Experiences =============================================================================== >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Sun Aug 13 22:09:35 1989 [South China Morning Post, Sunday, August 13, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- US SYMPATHY FOR CHINESE STOPS AT VISA DOOR Beijing: Hundreds of Chinese people line up daily outside United States visa offices, but they are finding that sympathy for the suppressed pro-democracy protests hasn't opened the doors to the United States any wider. Instead, it actually may be harder to get a visa to study or see relatives in the US since the Chinese army's bloody crack-down in June ended seven weeks of student-led demonstrations. Not only do the Chinese face closer scrutiny by their own police when applying for passports and exit permits, but they also must convince US visa officers that they will return home. These officers are more sceptical than ever, especially of students, who tend to be young, single and opposed to the ageing leaders who ordered the crack-down on dissent. "I challenge any one to think that one percent of those applying for visas now wants to come back," US Embassy spokesman Sheridan Bell said. The other top destinations for Chinese students are Canada and Australia. The Australian Embassy has postponed all student admissions for five months due to a backlog of applications from the period of turmoil. The Canadian Embassy, however, has issued student visas more freely than before as a humanitarian gesture. The visa process also has been shortened by weeks. A US Embassy source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was much harder now for student not sponsored by the Chinese Government to get American visas. Zhang, 23, with blue jeans and a fondness for American slang, couldn't convince the embassy he would return. "No sweat (problem)," he said one recent morning as he went into the embassy's consular section with his acceptance letter from a school in the southern US state of Arkansas. HE said he wanted to study business administration and come back to work at his factory. Two hours later, he came out, his smile gone, "No way," he said. Huang, a government employee in his 30s, was accepted into a West Virginia college's computer program. "Why wouldn't I come back?" he asked "I have a beautiful baby and a wife and a relatively decent job." Like Zhang, he was on his second try in a month. And like Zhang, he was rejected again. "I heard the record is 15 times," he said. Those whose tuition is government-paid historically have the highest return rate from the US because their families are forced to pay if they fail to come home. They make up most of the estimated 40,000 Chinese now studying in the United States. Mr Bell said the embassy gave visas to a total of 744 privately funded students in June, when the embassy was closed fro two weeks, and July. He refused to say how many were rejected, but said about 165 such students apply each day. Even allowing for days with low turnout, that means five of every six applicants have been turned away. The application process is arduous. It now takes about six weeks to get a passport and exit permit, compared with about four weeks before the crack-down, as police look for suspected "counter-revolutionaries". Passport applicants must bring letters from their schools or employers certifying they did not take part in the protests. In sympathy for the demonstrators, many schools and work units reportedly are covering for their members. But getting a passport, one youth said, was easy compared with getting an American visa. Applicants sometimes wait outside for days to get a ticket for an interview. They line up at 8:30 am on their appointed day to wait for their number to be called. So intense is their desire to get to the US that many applicants spend extra days outside the embassy huddled with other applicants, endlessly exchanging tips. "I heard that students with full scholarships have a 90 percent chance of getting visas, those with partial scholarships have a 50 percent chance and those relying entirely on sponsors to pay have almost no chance,: according to a man who was trying for the second time. A dozen students listened intently. "Nursing and teaching majors are no good," he said. "The United States is short of nurses and teachers, and they'll think you want to stay. ... It helps if you come from a name school or are going to a name school in the United States, like Yale." The only other topic of conversation is how to please the consuls, whom everyone knows by room number if not name. No. 1 is a woman - "she's the easiest," the skinny youth said. "No. 2 we call Left-Hand because he writes with his left hand. He's the toughest. Nos. 3 and 4 are about average." Some say Friday seems to be the easiest day to get a visa. Others recommend trying for an early morning interview, before the consuls get tired and hungry. A rich sponsor can help - but not too rich, one experienced applicant advises: the consul may think you'll be tempted to stay. Many Chinese have expressed be-wilderment that the US Congress is planning to extend the visas of Chinese students already in the US - fearing they will be punished for supporting the portests - but has not relaxed the rules for those who actually marched to Tiananmen Square. "Our government could close the door at any time," said one woman whose husband is studying in the US. "Why does the United States say he can stay, but not let me go see him?" Associated Press ============================================================================== 2. Wu'er Kaixi Hid Under Timber During His Escape ============================================================================== >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Mon Aug 14 13:25:45 1989 [South China Morning Post, Monday, August 14, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- MASS KILLINGS IN PURGE, SAYS WU'ERKAIXI Executions are taking place on a massive scale all over China in the purge that has followed the massacre of Tiananmen Square, according to the fugitive student leader Wu'erkaixi. He has claimed in a newspaper interview that more than 120,000 people have been arrested or executed, and that his underground network of contacts now puts the number killed in the June bloodbath in Beijing at 3,000. The student leader, in an interview with the London Sunday Express, said he escaped by hiding under timber in the back of a truck. His escape, he reiterated, was aided by Hongkong students and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He declined to disclose further details of his escape. Talking about the future, Mr Wu'erkaixi said if senior leader Deng Xiaoping dies soon, "it could be a signal for the people to come out on the streets again". the demonstrations in Beijing, he observed, had been sparked by the death of dismissed Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang, Speaking of the clamp-down on the pro-democracy movement, the student leader said: "The purging of dissidents is more bloody than the West can imagine. There is no end to the revenge of the hard-liners." The former student, who comes from a prominent provincial family, said his contacts had also told him the hard-line regime in Beijing was now troubled by squabbling. "There is an ideological crisis in the leadership. Should hard-line communism continue or should doors be opened? China is in economic turmoil," he said. "There is disagreement over what should be done with the intellectuals, artists and academics, many of whom supported our revolt." Mr Wu'erkaixi, one of the most outspoken figures in the collective leadership of the student democracy movement in Beijing, said he was in Tiananmen Square on the night troops moved in. "There were acts of bravery I will never forget," he said. "Students tried to reason with soldiers who were firing like madmen, bayoneting young men and women. I was put in an ambulance with two dead students, an injured girl and an injured soldier. As we sped to hospital I saw tanks firing their machine-guns into the crowd." A few nights earlier, he had had a momentous interview with then party leader Zhao Ziyang, and Prime Minister Li Peng, which was televised live across China. Mr Wu'erkaixi, and other students with him, were weakened by hunger strikes and were lying in bed in pyjamas when they were brought unexpectedly to the Government's quarters. Yet Mr Wu'erkaixi startled the Prime Minister - and the nationwide audience - by shouting and wagging his finger at him. "I did not realise television cameras were filming the meeting. If I had I would have asked him to explain to the world the corruption in his leadership and the absence of democracy in China," he said. Mr Wu'erkaixi revealed he and his girl-friend Liu Yan - another student leader who is now with him in the United States - were smuggled out of Beijing, hidden under a pile of timber in the back of a lorry. Their escape route remains secret because "it may be needed by others in the futures". Since leaving China, Mr Wu'erkaixi has emerged as the most prominent spokesman for the student democracy movement in exile. He is living in the United States. The Times ============================================================================== 3. Demonstration Prepared For October 1 ============================================================================== >From hkucs!hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET Sun Aug 13 22:09:35 1989 [South China Morning Post, Sunday, August 13, 1989] -------------------------------------------------------------- DISSIDENTS PLAN MARCH The recently-formed federation comprising Chinese student opponents of the Beijing Government will stage a march on October 1, the national day of the Chinese People's Republic, to condemn the June 3-4 Massacre. The march, to be staged in Washington, will include other dissidents and will be organised by the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, which made the announcement yesterday. The federation was also documenting the scope of the June massacre and continuing repression, its chairman, Mr Liu Yongchuan, said from its Washington headquarters. Within the next two weeks, the United Nations in Geneva expects to hear testimony on the scope of the Beijing repression from Mr Chai Ling, one of the pro-democracy movement's key student leaders. Ms Chai recently surfaced in Geneva following a long and complicated exodus from China, and will be joined in her testimony by Mr Wu'erkaixi and other dissident leaders now in the US. "Not a day goes by that I do not dream of returning to my home in China," admitted Mr Wu'erkaixi in an interview following the establishment of the federation. "But we will wait to return to free China." ============================================================================== Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 13:51:04 EDT From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu(Bo Xiong) Message-Id: <8908221751.AA10062@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> To: News_Recipient@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Subject: Last Message From Bo Xiong Table of Contents: Sent Out Via Old Route 1. More On "Tax Policy For PRC Students" 2. Tax Exemption --- Follow Up 3. Chinese Girl Detained At LA When Entering USA 4. Update: Detained Girl From China 5. Plaincloth Police And Soldiers Killed By Mistake 6. Students In Nova Scotia Joined FCSSC 7. Airplane Crashed In Shanghai (AP News) 8. TOEFL Registration In Beijing: Line-up For 7 Days ******************** The Farewell Note From The Sender ************************ Dear Friends, I have left school and computer network last Sunday, this is the last service provided to you by me, someone else will take over my job. Since past six months, we spent a lot of time together on the network, thank you all for reading my news packages. 1989 is the most critical period of Chinese nation, we all share the tears on China's face and struggle for a better future of our homeland. As a Chinese, I feel proud that I did something for China when she was at the most critical moment. I moved to Chicago last Sunday to start a new life in this freeland and am now remote logging in from Chicago to serve you for the last time. Good Bye, dear friends. See you sometime in the future in China and/or in North America. Thank you. Bo Xiong in the U.S. (312)228-0547, (308)228-0547 (after Nov.11, 1989) P. S. Chi Bo at U. of Waterloo will take over my job very soon. ******************************************************************************* 1. More On "Tax Policy For PRC Students" =============================================================================== Date: 14 Aug 89 11:12 -0700 From: YE FU In the message by R.Boissy, he mentioned "Article 19 of the CCITA". By my knowledge, if you declare your eligibility of your tax return for 1987, 1988, you will be asked to present a letter from your employer saying that your staying in CANADA is SOLELY for education or training purpose. Many people believe that it is not a good time now for those students applying P.R. status to declare tax return. Anyway, if your P.R. application is rejected, you can still declare for the return for 1987 before Dec. 31th, 1990. ============================================================================== 2. Tax Exemption --- Follow Up ============================================================================== Send-date: Wed, 16 Aug 1989 13:44:58 UTC-0700 From: To: Subject: Issues of concern to PRC students and scholars in Canada. Dear Tao: Thanks for the Fax number. I will be sending Prof. Lin a copy of the proposal with my apology for the delay... .... Finally, I want to say that I have received a few telephone calls about the CCITA. One very kind woman from TRIUMF (Mrs. Irene Tsui) phoned and I was able to send her a copy of the CCITA and the letter to UBC's Finance Dept.. She is trying to help some visiting scholars there (I think she is an administrator at TRIUMF) and I hope that she is successful. I also received a call from someone at UBC's Finance Dept. She seemed anxious to be of help also and I was able to clarify some points regarding the letter that she was unsure about. I should point out a few other things that you might want to know abou the issue. Anyone who has paids taxes that were improperly assessed is of course entitled to a refund - but they will also receive interest payments on the amount that was improperly collected - from its date of collection until the time their refund is processed. Also I am unaware of any income tax agreement between Canada and the PRC that was in existence prior to the CCITA (which only took effect in January of 1987). In some informal research of my own I noticed that Article 19 of the CCITA differs significantly from the corresponding Article 19 in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) model agreement (and other agreements that Canada has signed based on the OECD model agreement). The OECD verion of Article 19 specifies that the tax exemption is only for income received from sources outside of the country in which the exchange student is studying (i.e. in most cases the student's country of origin). Article 19 of the CCITA does NOT - I repeat - does NOT limit the income tax exemption for PRC students and scholars to those who receive funds from sources outside of Canada. I believe that this difference is very significant - and that it may be one reason why there are so many problems with non-compliance by Revenue Canada Taxation (RCT) officials. I will keep you informed of any more developments on this issue. I am currently trying to work with UBC (and possibly others) to ensure that RCT interprets Article 19 of the CCITA in the most liberal manner possible - i.e. to classify visiting scholars as "business trainees" or even "apprentices" (I don't feel that this is unreasonable) and to ensure that research assistanceships, teaching assistanceships and post-doctoral fellowships granted to PRC students and scholars in Canada are all covered by Article 19 of the CCITA. I will be getting my own MTS account soon and I will register an address in the userdirectory as soon as possible. Please accept my thanks for the kind words in your last message. I treasure the friendship of all my colleagues from China and I consider it an honour to be of service to them in any way possible. Please give my best to all of the old "Vanier group" and the others that I've had the privilege of meeting. With the greatest respect, Robert. =============================================================================== 3. Chinese Girl Detained At LA When Entering USA =============================================================================== From: jl7q@hudson.acc.virginia.edu (li jinghong) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Help her, it is the first step to help yourself I learned the following story from NBC news last Friday. Maybe it was short, maybe it was not that important to some people, I didn't hear any reactions on SCC at all. I feel a little sad... One girl from PRC was detained about three weeks ago when she tried to enter USA with a forgery Passport. Since then she lived in the USA government's building which is nice but for prisoners. During the Spring democracy movement in Beijing, she went to TAM Square many times to show her support. Her brother, a young active student, told her " you should stay home, this is not a safe place for you ". But, she did not agree and continued to help. A great hope for freedom and democracy encouraged her. After the bloody June 4, she was facing the same danger as many of the brave youngs. But she was lucky, she got help from some unknown friends by providing a forgery passport. Now, she is facing the legal charge from the US government. If she could not prove, according to US standard, that she left China because of political dangers, she will be forced back to China. NBC news mentioned that on the same day, only two blocks away, from where the first trail took place, in the same town, Mr. Wuer Kaixi was speaking to the city lawmakers. Declared he wanted to use US as the temporary home base for a freedom movement for China. NBC news anchor Tom Brook said (not direct quote), while the leaders are welcome as heros all over the world, their supporters and followers might be sent back to home. Did Wuer Kaixi hear this story ? Did the other escaped heros hear this story ? Did the new leaders of FCCS hear this story ? Did you hear this story ? Did anyone try to help ? Are there any one trying to help ? This is a very typical example of the Chinese democracy movement history. Remember the 1979 Democacy Wall ? Remember Wei Jingshen ? Remember the Winter of 1987 ? Remember Hu Yongbong ? Remember Fang Lizi ? .......Do not forget June 4, 1989. Do not let the history happen again in the USA. She might not be an important leader, but she is one of us. She is one of the millions of the people who changed Chinese history. Help her, this is the first step to help yourself. Speak out, do not allow tragedy happen to one more folks. =========================================================================== 4. UPDATE: Detained Girl From China =========================================================================== From: cssa@wiener.usc.edu (USC CSSA Mailing List) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china UPDATE ON THE DETAINED LADY FROM CHINA Miss Chen Yiwei, who had fled China after participating in the democratic movement, has been detained since June 24. Lots of people have express the sympathy and willingness to help her. Here are the update information on her case: Representatives from CSSA of USC have contacted Miss Chen's attorney Ms. Dorothy Harper, she told us that there will be a hearing at Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles, located at 300 N. Los Angeles St. Court room 1001B at 8:30PM Friday, Aug. 18, 1989. At that time the INS judge will rule on Miss Chen's request of political asylum. the possible outcomes of the hearing can be: (1) the asylum is granted and Miss Chen walks out a free person; (2) the asylum is denied and the judge will set up a bail and we need to bail her out. The lawyer asked us to help her to find a China expert to testify on her behalf on Friday's hearing. CSSA of USC has arranged Prof. Stanley Rosen, Professor of Political Sciences and China expert to appear in court on Friday as expert witness to tell the court what fate Miss Chen is going to face if she's forced to go back to China. Since the amount of bail money has not been set, we would advise those who are willing to contribute to her case to hold the money for the time being and after Friday's hearing we will post the outcome of the ruling and give direction on where to send contribution. There is one aspect that Miss Chen does need help: after she's released from custody, she will need a place to stay and working opportunities. If somebody could offer something for her boarding and working, it would be a great help to her. CSSA of USC will send observers to the hearing on Friday. We will keep you posted for any new development. ================================================================================ 5. Plaincloth Police And Soldiers Killed By Mistake ================================================================================ From: linli@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (xiaolin li) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: Relatives Threatened To Tell Truth, CCP Has To Pay For Died "Masses". According to Hong Kong magzine "The Nineties", Chinese government has paid highly for those "masses" who were killed "by mistake". The compensations are from 10,000 to 20,000 yuan (compare to 2,000 yuan for those soldiers who died in Sino-Vietnam war). The reason for the government to pay highly for those "masses" killed "by mistake" is that the relatives of these "masses" threatened to tell the truth to the world if the government do not treat them fairly. According to sources, many who were killed "by mistake" and compensated by the government appeared frequently in the government documentary tape of "riot". Those "masses" were hired by the government to throw stones at the soldiers and to set a bad image for the pro-democracy movement. They also had the task to provoke the soldiers to start shooting at the real people. But unforturnately they themselves were killed by the soldiers too. Their relatives knew the truth and threatened to tell the truth if the government do not treat them fairly. To cover the fact, the government had to pay highly for those "masses". The real masses, namely the peaceful demonstrators of the pro-democracy movement have never been compensated. They have been considered by the government as "rioters". =============================================================================== 6. Students In Nova Scotia Joined FCSSC ========================= Message to Chairman of FCSSC ======================== Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 14:20 ADT From: CHENGBIN@AC.DAL.CA To: Qu Xiaohua, Chairman Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada Hi, Xiaohua, how are you doing. I am writing to you at Dalhousie University. I was authorized by our newly elected CSSA Committee to contact you. After several weeks' preparation, last night we had a meeting to discuss if we should join FCSSC or not. There were 62 people from Dalhousie University, Technical University of Nova Scotia and Saint Mary's University showing up at the meeting. It was hot during the discussion. Then we agreed to have a vote to decide if we should join FCSSC or not. 90% voted "yes". The president and vice president of the old LYH then showed willingness to step down. Lin Zhengxi stood up and said he was willing to be the president to serve people. 85% of the attendants voted "yes" for him to become new president of CSSA. A committee was also formed. Right now we are working hard to make things more organized. I will send you more information later on. =============================================================================== 7. Airplane Crashed In Shanghai (AP News) =============================================================================== >From: yawei@AQUA.BACS.INDIANA.EDU Newsgroups: soc.culture.china NEWS 8/15/89 Chinese Airliner Crash Kills 18 BEIJING - A Chinese airliner with 54 people aboard crashed Tuesday near Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency reported. At least 18 passengers and crew members were killed, it said. Earlier, Xinhua said 33 passengers and crew members were killed, but a later report said 18 died and rescue efforts were contuinuing. Xinhua did not explain the discrepancy. The plane plunged into a river after an aborted takeoff from Hongqiao Airport, about 14 miles north of Shanghai, at 3:46 p.m., the report said. Reports received by the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai said 54 people were on board the flight. The plane was a Soviet-designed Antonov-24 on flight 5510 of China's flag carrier, the Civil Aviation Administration of China. It was en route from Shanghai to the southern city of Nanchang. Officials at the CAAC office in Shanghai contacted by telephone said they could not confirm the report. It was the first crash involving a Chinese airliner since last August, when a flight from Canton crashed while landing at Hong Kong International Airport, killing seven people. Last year, Chinese airlines were involved in five major accidents that killed 172 people. CAAC Chief Hu Yizhou has acknowledged that the airline's safety record has ''serious problems'' and called for improvements. ============================================================================== 8. TOEFL Registration In Beijing: Line-up For 7 Days ============================================================================== >From: YAOM@ASUCPS.BITNET Newsgroups: soc.culture.china I received a letter from my friend in Beijing yesterday.He told me the following: "The registration for TOEFL of October,1989 will begin next Monday.I guess that I had to line-up for that from this Saturday. I had never expected that when I waked up today(Monday),I was told that thousands of people had lined-up at every TOEFL centres already. I hurried to the centres at BEIDA, RENDA,TSINGHUA,BEIWAI, BEIGANG, etc,only found that the number of people waiting there was more than twice of possible registration numbers.Finally,I got a HAO(4) from one of my friend at the centre in SHIDA.I wonder if I could live through these horrible days and nights." p.s. there are fourteen TOEFL centres in BEIJING.More than three thousands of students took the TOEFL in May, 1989 in BEIJING. ===============================================================================