Subject: July 6 (II), CND Live Report from IFCSS 2nd Congress

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 90 03:01:09 -0500

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    CND Live Report from 2nd Congress of IFCSS, Columbus, Ohio, Series III

                                July 6, 1990

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1.  Who Are Running for Next IFCSS President?
2.  The Conference Schedule for July 7th
3.  PRC Government Is Watching 2nd Congress
4.  How CND Reports 2nd Congress Live from Columbus
5.  More about Today's Opening Ceremony
6.  Some behind Scene Stories
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1.  Who Are Running for Next IFCSS President?
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    Tonight, 2nd Congress had a small and brief session of Q & A to
let delegates to hear from those who are running for next president.
    So far, two pairs have declared that are running for president
and vice-president:
    1) Dr. Zhao Haiqing for president, Harvard University.
       Chen Sizhong for vice-president, Columbia University.
       Campaign manager: Dr. Lou Zexi, Harvard University.
    2) Chen Xingyu for president, U. of Wisconsin.
       Yang Liqing for vice-president, U. of California at San Diego.
       Campaign manager: Liu Yadong, U. of Maryland.
       Assistant campaign manager: Ding Jian, UC at Los Angelos.
    Actually, the election campaign started in July 5th pre-conference
evening reception.  In the party, both sides had "lobbied" around.
    Here are some interesting Q & A's conversation tonight:

Q: Zhao Haiqing, what are you going to do for Chinese students in the US?
A: I'll do my best to serve our fellow students as I used to do and take
   the advantage of my hand-on experience in lobby and visa affairs, to
   help students in job-hunting, visa/status and family re-union affairs.
Q: Chen Xingyu, could you please answer the same question?
A: Sure, if I am elected, I'll "hire" Haiqing to continue the job he just
   told us.
   Besides, both parties have announced that IFCSS will continue to be
not a political party nor social club, i.e., it remains their own
organization of Chinese students and scholars in the US and represents
the most common interests of Chinese students and scholars.
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2.  The Conference Schedule for July 7th
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    Tomorrow morning (July 7th), delegates will vote on the revised
version of IFCSS Constitution and the bills proposed by delegates.
    Tomorrow noon, 2nd Congress will open its public campaign for
various positions, such as the president and vice-president, member
of supervisory Committee and member of Council.
    In the afternoon through midnight, official debat will be conducted
between president/vice-president candidates, delegates will vote for
president/vice-president by midnight.
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3.  PRC Government Is Watching 2nd Congress
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    CND has confirmed that Chinese Embassy in Washington DC is spending
three hours daily on reading CND and other network messages.  CND welcome
Chinese Embassy to read CND news packages and forward CND news back to
the leadership of CCP for whatever purposes because we think it's better
than they don't listen to overseas students at all.
    This afternoon, CND met the Xin Hua News Agency correspondents again
and talked for a while.  they are very cautious and said nothing
significant, we are told that they'll write news report on 2nd Congress
"but it will not be our decision whether or how to publish it".  We all
understand what they meant and our readers may keep an eye on People's
Daily.
    Last year, the Xin Hua News Agency called 1st Congress "a traitors'
noisy show", this year, they decided to take a closer look at those
"traitors".
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4.  How CND Reports 2nd Congress Live from Columbus, Ohio
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    We have eleven CND members here, ten of them are school delegats.
Besides their regular duties as delegates, they "nose"/"hook" around
and keep "many eyes' on everything :-)  Also, some CND members are
IFCSS officers so that they are making CND a lot of easier in doing
report.
   Technically, we take a laptop computer with built-in modem here,
use a local computer account provided by an OSU student to remotely
access CND working account and post to our readers.
   CND would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude
to Sun Mingqiu at [email-masked] and Shen Zhiyong at
[email-masked], who have been providing helps to CND in
reporting 2nd Congress.
   Also, CND stuffs working in the mailing centers are doing their
best to keep the jumbo size mailing lists running while bitnet is
experiencing some technical trouble recently.
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5.  More about Today's Opening Ceremony
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   Besides Chai Ling and Feng Chongde, many other special guests attended
today's opening ceremony.  They are: Wan Runnan of Front of Democratic
China (FDC), Xu Bangtai of Chinese Alliance for Democracy, formal TAM
student leader Li Lu, and the representatives of Chinese student and scholar
orgnizations in Canada, Japan, West Germany, Australia, Sweden, Hong Kong
and US Taiwan Student Union.  The chief-staff of the state of Ohio
governer's office also delivered very warm statement to the ceremony.
   In the guest's speeches, Wan Runnan emphasized that what CCP is doing
is to make people forget the massacre and the most important we should
do is to keep the memory fresh.  In the statement of Ohio governer's
office chief staff, she reminded everyone of that "you cannot take
democracy and freedom of speech for granted.
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6.  Some behind Scene Stories
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    Chai Ling and Feng Chongde attend 2nd Congress as normal delegates,
unlike 1st congress in wich those VIP's (Very Important Person) were
isolated from public and delegates.  But Chai Ling couple join all
conference activities and without that much protection.  They and Li Lu
live in the same student dorm where CND members stay.

    In this morning's session, a delegat asked "what's the highest and
the lowest salary paid to IFCSS headquarters officials?"  Liu Yadong,
the general secratary of IFCSS answered, "before tax, the highest is
paid to Liu Yadong (himself), amount $1,200, while president of IFCSS
earns the lowest, $800 only".

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