Subject: CND-US, August 15, 1991

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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1991 21:34:04 -0500

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			     August 15, 1991
 
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1. IFCSS Will Stage A Rally on Saturday in D.C. to Protest Chinese
   Government's Inhumane Treatment of Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming . . . 45
 
2. Recent Report on China's Flood Situation from Australia . . . . . . .30
3. International Syposium (Wuhan, China) of Overseas
   Chinese Scholars on Analytical Chemistry Calls for Papers . . . . . .15
4. Position for Research Assistant Professor in Physics Available . . . 10
 
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1. IFCSS Will Stage A Rally on Saturday in D.C. to Protest Chinese
   Government's Inhumane Treatment of Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming . . . 45
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1) >From: IFCSS HQ <[email-masked]>	Date: Thu, 15 Aug 91 20:35:44
    Subject: IFCSS NR3011: IFCSS Will Hold A Rally
 
Dear IFCSS Members:
 
     As reported earlier today by IFCSS Headquarters, Wang Juntao and Chen
Ziming recently began a hunger strike in an effort to force the Chinese
government to improve their deplorable prison conditions.  (Both have been
held in solitary confinement since March and are being denied adequate food
and medical treatment.)  The IFCSS has decided to take the following actions
to protest the Chinese government's inhumane treatment of Wang Juntao and
Chen Ziming:
 
     The IFCSS will stage a rally to protest these recent developments.
 
          Date: Saturday, August 17
          Time: 2:30pm
      Location: the Chinese embassy
                2300 Connecticut Avenue NW
                Washington, District of Columbia
 
We urge that any who can come do so.  We are trying to arrange for the Voice
of America to cover the rally in the hope that VOA will broadcast the news
into China.  For the Chinese people must know of the on-going hunger strike.
 
     Also, the IFCSS is continuing to contact the United States Congress,
the White House and the State Department, and the news media in an effort to
step up pressure on the Chinese government.
 
     We must all immediately act together to help save Wang Juntao and Chen
Ziming who fought for human rights and democracy for our fellow Chinese
people. 				-- IFCSS HQ
 
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2) >From: IFCSS HQ <[email-masked]> Thu Aug 15 15:34:36 1991
    Subject: IFCSS NR3010: WJT and CZM are on Hunger Strike
 
Dear IFCSS Members:
 
     The IFCSS Headquarters has learned from several sources that Wang Juntao
and Chen Ziming have begun a hunger strike to protest their inhuman prison
conditions.
 
     Over the last two weeks, IFCSS Headquarters repeatedly contacted the
U.S. Congress, White House and State Department, news media and human rights
organizations.	We hoped that the international pressure would force the
Chinese authorities to improve prison conditions so that Wang Juntao would
not have to start a hunger strike thereby endanger his life.  The newly
arrived information informed us that our sincere efforts failed to make the
Chinese government improve its human rights record.  Again the brutal Chinese
government showed to the world its suppression of basic human rights.
 
     The IFCSS will take actions.	     -- IFCSS HQ
 
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2. Recent Report on China's Flood Situation from Australia . . . . . . .30
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>From: [email-masked] (J.Gao) Date: 14 Aug 91 04:35:17 GMT
 
    THE NATIONAL UNION OF CHINESE STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS IN AUSTRALIA
 
Latest flood news:
 
Rainstorms and floods lashed a wide area of central China's Sichuan Province
during the past week, leaving more than 450 people dead and ravaging
cropland, an official newspaper reported Tuesday.
 
The casualties and damage were the latest in a summer of disastrous flooding
across the country that has caused more than 2,000 deaths and left large
numbers of people homeless in east and south China.
 
The state-run Farmer's Daily said rainstorms and flooding swept eight cities
and prefectures in southeast Sichuan from Aug. 5 through the past weekend,
including the major cities of Chongqing and Nanchong.
 
The storms left 456 people dead, ruined 1.3 million tons of crops and caused
economic damage losses of more than $566 million, the newspaper said.
Sichuan is one of China's biggest grain-producing provinces.
 
The Farmer's Daily said the provincial government has dispatched six work
teams to the hardest-hit areas to coordinate disaster relief and assist local
residents in resuming industrial and agricultural production.
 
Relief efforts are continuing in other areas stricken by floods from May to
July.
 
The official China Daily newspaper reported Tuesday that economic losses
in one hard-hit province, Hubei, have totaled about $2 billion.
 
By 12.00 pm 14 August 1991 we have received donations totaling $1,222.00
 
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3. International Syposium (Wuhan, China) of Overseas
   Chinese Scholars on Analytical Chemistry Calls for Papers . . . . . .15
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>From: Xiaogen Yang <[email-masked]>  14 Aug 91
 
International Symposium of Overseas Chinese on Analytical Chemistry Sponsored
by the Beijing University, Nanjing University and Wuhan University will be
held on October 20-24, 1992 in Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. Its objective
is to promote the academic exchange on analytical chemistry and the
friendship among the overseas chinese scholars.  Your attendance will be
cordially welcome.
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
All unpublished papers are welcome. You are invited to submit abstracts, the
accepted abstracts will be complied and published in English in book form
before the opening of the symposium.
 
[Editor's note: for details about the topics of the conference and etc.,
 please contact Xiaogen Yang at   [email-masked]		]
 
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4. Position for Research Assistant Professor in Physics Available . . . 10
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>From: <[email-masked]>  Fri, 09 Aug 91
 
                         DREXEL UNIVERSITY
                 RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION
 
The experimental particle physics group invites applications from promising
nuclear, particle, or cosmic ray experimentalists to participate in MACRO, a
cosmic-ray monopole and neutrino experiment; the Perry experiment, a new high
sensitivity reactor neutrino oscillation search; solar neutrino experiments;
and/or R&D directed toward the SSC. Send applications to Prof. R. I.
Steinberg, Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
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