Subject: CND-US, December 9, 1991

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 01:30:02 -0500

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			  Monday, December 9, 1991
 
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1. News Brief (3 Items) .................................................23
2. IFCSS Family Reunion Project Update ..................................26
3. The Signature Campaign to Support Unconditional MFN for China
    --- A Nation-wide CSS Coordinators' Network Established .............80
4. Old INS I-538 Forms No Longer Usable .................................18
5. Dai Qin's Message for Mr. Baker: Go Easy on China ....................68
6. Job Opportunity in East Asian History (4 Days to Deadline) ...........15
7. Refund for CSS Who Once Paid But Failed to Get VISA of Australia .....30
 
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1. News Brief ...........................................................23
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A copy of "United States-China Act of 1991" (H.R.2212) has been carried  in
IFCSS News Release #3046. The bill contains conditions for renewing China's
MFN in 1992, including: conditions regarding to  June-4  (sec.3-a.  1A-1B);
conditions  regarding  to human rights (sec.3-b. 1-10); conditions in trade
(sec.3-c. 1-3); conditions in weapon proliferation (section  3-d,  1-A,B,C,
2).  <[email-masked]>, 12/6.
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AFP, BJ: China's official People's Daily newspaper (12/5) fiercely attacked
the USA as a country with an inhuman soical system and poor human rights.
 
The article singled out the United States, one of  the  countries  applying
most  pressure  on China to respect human rights, for particular criticism.
<[email-masked]>, 12/5.
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The CSSA of Oregon State University invited Mr. Qian1 Jia1-ju1, the famouse
economistin exile,  and Mr. Jing1 Yiao2-ru2, ex-editor-in-general of the HK
Wen2 Huei4 Newspaper,to a talk with about 40 CSSA members at OSU yesterday.
During the Question-Answer, Qian said that he is always in favor of the un-
conditional renewal of the Sino-US MFN status. However, he also said thatit
won't be a bad thing  if the US congress debates on it,  since the Congress
and  the US government  always act  like white-face and red-face,   if this
debate doesn't put MFN in danger. <[email-masked]>, 12/9
 
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2. IFCSS Family Reunion Project Update ..................................26
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From:   IFCSS HQ <[email-masked]> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91
Source: IFCSS NR3047: Family Reunion Update
 
Dear Fellow Chinese Students and Scholars:
 
The Family Reunion Project of IFCSS  has  been  carried  out  continuously,
although we had a major personnel change.
 
Majority cases have  already  been  successfully  solved,  as  we  reported
before.   New  cases keep coming in since some students family members just
received their passports and failed to get visas.
 
The conditions for us to accept you case are still the same:
 
(1) You are protected by the Executive Order;
(2) The visitors are your immediate family members;
(3) If they are your children, they must be under 21;
(4) You must have a full scholarship or a full-time, salaried job.
 
Due to the financial constrains, IFCSS does not process phone calls regard-
ing  family-reunion  cases.  IFCSS  process  such  case  through mail.  The
corresponding address is:
 
               IFCSS-VISA
               8904 59th Ave.
               College Park, MD 20740
 
            IFCSS Headquarters Office (Signature)
 
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3. The Signature Campaign to Support Unconditional MFN for China
    --- A Nation-wide CSS Coordinators' Network Established .............80
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From:   [email-masked] (Raymond C. Luh)  Dec 8, 1991
Source: soc.culture.china   (Abridged by CND)
 
	   Support Unconditional MFN for China Campaign (SUMCC)
 
I. The Objective of SUMCC
 
The one and only objective of the campaign is to have our  voice  HEARD  by
whomever  that  wishes  to hear it. Before outlining the steps to achieving
this objective, let us just say first that SUMCC will be
 
1.  Non-political in the sense that we will accept participation  from  any
    and all who supports Unconditional MFN for China.
 
2.  Neutral on all other issues. We have but  one  goal  and  that  is  the
    securing of Unconditional MFN for China.
 
3.  Non-threatening to any existing CSS organization including  the  IFCSS.
    Participants of SUMCC are free to associate with IFCSS as well as local
    CSS organizations.
 
Please be reassured that SUMCC is *not* another CSS  organization.  As  the
name  clearly  implies,  it is a *campaign* and, as such, will be in effect
for no longer than deemed necessary or meaningful. To repeat with emphasis,
the sole purpose of this campaign is to *identify* those in the CSS commun-
ity who support Unconditional MFN for China so that our voice can be HEARD.
 
II. SUMCC Participation
 
Everyone who supports Unconditional MFN for China is *ENCOURAGED* to become
a  SIGNATORY  Participant.  There  is  no  membership  requirement and your
signature is used *only* for the purpose of promoting UMFN for China.
 
Becoming a Signatory Participant is as simple as ABC.  Just  sign-up  one's
name,  address,  phone number and affiliation with any LOCAL COORDINATER of
SUMCC. Please make sure to sign-up with ONLY  one  coordinator,  preferably
the one in one's own local area and/or region.
 
       SUMCC Sign-up Centers List (at time of this announcement)
 
Sign-up Center             Local Coordinator         e-mail/phone
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Note: We need *volunteers* to fill VACANT positions and open new ones
 
BHP Research, Australia    Jing, Jianfeng    [email-masked]
Boston University          Li, Xiaowen       [email-masked]
Brookhaven National Lab    Deng, Dong-Ping   [email-masked]
Brown University           Yang, David       [email-masked]
Carnegie Mellon Univ.      Sun, Zhen-Yu      [email-masked]
The Courant Institute      Fang, Yi          [email-masked]
Dartmouth College          Leung, Kelvin     [email-masked]
James Cook University,     Su, Jianfeng      [email-masked]
             Australia
McGill University          Guo, Xiaoming     [email-masked]
NASA Ames                  Luh, Raymond      [email-masked]
Ohio State Univ.           Cheng, Eddie      [email-masked]
Oregon State Univ.         (VACANT)
Penn State Univ.           Huang, James      [email-masked]
Rochester Inst. of Tech.   Zeng, Miao        [email-masked]
Greater San Diego Area     Li, Zhenqin
Syracuse Univ.		   Zhang, Yimin      [email-masked]
Temple Univ.		   Pan, Wei          [email-masked]
Univ. of Alabama           Luo, Ming         [email-masked]
   at Birmingham
Univ. of Arizona           Deng, William     [email-masked]
UC Berkeley                Yin, Zheng        [email-masked]
U. of Maryland, CP         (VACANT)
U. of Mass. at Lowell      Shi, Chunde       [email-masked]
U. of Pennsylvania         (VACANT)
Washington U at St. Louis  Li, Zuofeng       [email-masked]
Yale University            Xu, Wang          [email-masked]
 
		  Regional Coordinators (interim)
 
Atlantic      --  Dong-Ping Deng
Eastern       --  David Yang
Midwestern    --  Zuofeng Li
Northeastern  --  Xiaowen Li
Northern      --  Eddie Cheng
Western       --  Raymond Luh
Australian    --  Jianfeng Su/Jianfeng Jing
Canadian      --  Xiaoming Guo
 
[CND-US Editor's Note: Concerned readers please contact the original sender
 for an unabridged edition]
 
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4. Old INS I-538 Forms No Longer Usable .................................18
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From:   Lisa Jacobson Treacy and Amy Yenkin, NAFSA Central Office, 12/3
Source: NAFSA Update No. 158
Provided by  Bo Xiong <[email-masked]>
 
In the last NAFSA update, which addressed transitional issues  relating  to
the  new F-1 regulations, we stated that until the new I-539 form is avail-
able, the old I-538 should be used for requesting  a  reinstatement.   THIS
INFORMATION  IS NOT CORRECT!  We have received reports that the Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS) has  been  returning  petitions  with  fee
filed  on  old  I-538s.   Please  do not use old I-538 forms under any cir-
cumstance.
 
The new F-1 regulations do not require that a reinstatement be filed  on  a
specific  form.  Therefore, requests for reinstatement can be made in writ-
ing and accompanied by a new I-20.  Any further information on  filing  for
reinstatements,  once  the new I-539 form is available, will be distributed
to NAFSA members over Bitnet and in the Government  Affairs  Bulletin.   If
you have any questions, please contact your Government Regulations Advisory
Committee regional representative, or the NAFSA central office.
 
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5. Dai Qin's Message for Mr. Baker: Go Easy on China ....................45
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From:   Joe Huang
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal, Nov. 25 1991, by James McGregor
 
Dissident journalist Dai Qing returned home  last  week,  four  days  after
being  kidnapped by Chinese government security agents, with a strong - but
surprising - message for the U.S.
 
When Ms. Dai stepped into her house Wednesday night and found herself  fac-
ing a dozen foreign journalists, she let loose with a tough message for Mr.
Baker: Go easy on China.
 
"Deng Xiaoping is still a great reformer; the  American  government  should
cooperate with him," said Ms. Dai, easing into a chair as a swarm of micro-
phones reached toward her face. "On this matter of human rights, the  world
should  give the Chinese government time. I think they will change on their
own over time."
 
It's not that Ms. Dai was brainwashed by her ordeal. It's just that she  is
about the nicest dissident that an authoritarian government would ever want
to meet. She was annoyed about being lied to. She  was  angry  about  being
kidnapped.  But,  in the end, she considered her kidnapping to be simply an
act of monumental stupidity and a small sign that human rights are  improv-
ing in China.
 
"The way this was done shows progress in China," said Ms.Dai.  "In the Cul-
tural Revolution, they would have just locked me up."
 
The saga of Ms. Dai's abduction - indeed the tale of  her  treatment  since
the  June  4,  1989,  Tiananmen  Square  massacre  -  displays  the Chinese
government's propensity for shooting itself in the foot.
 
After recounting her tale, Ms. Dai asked the journalists to help her convey
three messages. One was that Mr. Baker should pressure China to release her
friend Wu Jiaxiang, an economist, Communist Party member  and  advocate  of
new authoritarianism who has been jailed since late 1989.
 
Another message is that she still wants to go to Harvard University for the
Neiman Fellowship in journalism that she has been awarded. Ms. Dai has been
unable to go because the government refuses to give her an exit visa.
 
Finally, she wants the U.S. to be patient with China. She said she  consid-
ers  it  progress  on  human  rights that her abduction was a silly charade
instead of a chilling nightmare.
 
She recited a Chinese proverb about the wind and sun competing to get some-
one to disrobe. Strong winds cause the person to bundle up tighter. Radiat-
ing heat from the sun, however, entices the person to undress.  "The United
States should be like the sun, not the wind," she said.
 
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6. Job Opportunity in East Asian History (4 days to deadline) ...........15
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From: Matt Mancini <[email-masked]>, Nov 28, 1991
 
     Southwest Missouri State University is looking for a historian of East
Asia  who  also  has a second field in U. S., so he or she can help us with
our significant demand for U. S. surveys.  We especially encourage  minori-
ties and women to apply.
     Southwest Missouri Statae serves 20,000 students.  The  history  dept.
has  an  outstanding publication record and a fine teaching reputation.  We
have 22 full-time faculty.  The teaching load  is  9  hours/semester.   The
university  is  located  in  Springfield,  MO's  third  largest  city and a
pleasant community of 140,000.  Interested people should check out the  job
announcement,  which appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. for October 2,
and in the October issue of Perspectives.
     Applications can be postmarked as late as December 13 to me at History
Dept,  SMSU, 901 S. National, Springfield, MO 65804-0089.  Snail mail only,
please; no e-mail or faxed applications.
                                           Thanks,
                                           Matthew Mancini
                                           Professor and Dept. Head, SMSU
 
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7. Refund for CSS Who Once Paid But Failed to Get VISA of Australia .....30
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From: IFCSS HQ <[email-masked]>, NR#3045, 12/6
 
The Australian Government announced in 1990 that it would ensure that over-
seas students who had prepaid their tuition fees to australian institutions
prior to 30 June 1990, but whose visa applications  were  unsuccess,  would
have their prepaid fees refunded.
 
Overseas Students who lost fees  paid  to  educational  institutions  which
closed,  may  also be eligible for a refund.  To be eligible, the fees must
have been paid prior to 27 June 1991 and the  closure  of  the  institution
must  have  been attributable to the introduction of the Governments August
1989 tighter entry measures for overseas students.
 
If you, or a student you know, believe you are eligible for  a  refund  and
have not already completed a Refund Claim form but would like to do so, for
further information contact the undersigned at the  following address:-
 
               AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY
               1601 Massachusetts Avenue NW
               WASHINGTON D.C. 20036
 
               Telephone:  (202)797-3157
 
Please NOTE:- Closing Date 15th January 1992
         D.E.Thomas (Signed),     Student Officer
 
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