Subject: CND-US, August 18, 1991

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1991 00:32:38 -0500

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			    August 18, 1991

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0. Gorbachev Said To Step Down; Soviet Vice President Steps In . . . . . 3
1. Update Total Donation for Flood Relief from CSS in USA: $100,759 . . 10
2. IFCSS' Report on Sat. Rally in DC, LI Lu on Huanger Strike . . . . . 55
3. Chinese Academic Exchange Information Center to Be Founded . . . . . 45
4. Chinese Couple's Reunion Ends in Death of Wife . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5. Chinese Artist Killed on Midtown Street of NYC . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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0. Gorbachev Said To Step Down; Soviet Vice President Steps In . . . . . 3
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>From: "J. Ding" <[email-masked]> Sun, 18 Aug 91 23:11:41

ABC reports that USSR Vice President took President's duty because of
Gorbachev's health problem.
[Editor's note: Please see August 19's CND-Global News for details]

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1. Update Total Donation for Flood Relief from CSS in USA: $100,759 . . 10
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>From: (Li Xiaowen, CND reporter) [email-masked]  Fri, 16 Aug 91

In today's update summary, an item carried on People's Daily (Overseas
Edition, August 13) is included. The reported total of donation from CSS in
the region, where the PRC Consulate General in San Francisco oversees, is
$31,929.

Update total: $100,759	 (As of August 16,  17:00 EDT)

[Editor's not: for a detailed and itermized donors' list, please contact
	       Li Xiaowen at  [email-masked] ]

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2. IFCSS' Report on Sat. Rally in DC, LI Lu on Huanger Strike . . . . . 55
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>From: IFCSS HQ <[email-masked]>  Sat, 17 Aug 91 18:35
Subject:      IFCSS NR3013: Protest, Li Lu on Hunger Strike

Dear IFCSS Members:

     IFCSS today held a rally in front of the Chinese embassy to demonstrate
solidarity with imprisoned democracy activists and hunger strikers Wang
Juntao and Chen Ziming.  IFCSS was joined by exiled dissidents Liu Binyan, Li
Lu and representatives of the Federation for a Democratic China, the Chinese
Alliance for Democracy and the Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy in
China and Human Rights in China.

     Demonstrators stood in front of the embassy holding placards and
pictures of Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming.  The demonstrators' placards said,
"You are not alone!" and "In prison for freedom, hunger striking for life!"
Passing motorists honked their horns in support of the protesters.

     Zhu Jiaming, Xue Wei, Xiao Qiang, and Zhao Haiqing all spoke on behalf
of their organizations.  Liu Binyan too addressed the rally.

     At the rally, Li Lu announced that he will stage a hunger strike in
front of the embassy.

     Li Lu declared in his Hunger Strike Manifesto:

     " ... the people in Beijing, though they have the will, have not the
freedom to express their support for Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao.  Only we
who live in the free world have the opportunity, and therefore the duty, to
openly protest on their behalf.  Because of this, I have decided to begin a
hunger strike before the Chinese Communists' embassy ...

     "Let my actions reflect in America the ongoing struggle of Juntao and
Ziming.  Let those who see me on hunger strike be reminded that in China two
men are still waging a difficult struggle in the darkness and isolation of
their prison cells.

     "No matter the result of my actions, I hope that these two fine men and
their struggle for basic human rights will be remembered forever."

     At the end of the rally, representatives from IFCSS, FDC, CAD, HRDC and
HRIC delivered to the Chinese embassy a protest letter.

     After the rally representatives from different organizations met to
coordinate their efforts to support Li Lu's hunger strike and planned for
further activities.  Chai Ling also participated in this planning.

     IFCSS will continue its efforts to save Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming.

     YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

     IN PRISON FOR FREEDOM,        WEI ZI YOU ER ZUO LAO,
     HUNGER STRIKING FOR LIFE!	    WEI SHENG CUN ER JUE SHI
								 -- IFCSS HQ

[Editor's note: concerned readers may contact IFCSS HQ at  [email-masked]
		for a copy of above-mentioned Protest Letter ]

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3. Chinese Academic Exchange Information Center to Be Founded . . . . . 45
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>From: Toni Ni <[email-masked]>  Thu, 15 Aug 91
Subject: Chinese Academic Exchange Information Center (prep) News Release 001

 	        A Proposal to Establish Academic Exchange
		       Information Center (AEIC)

    (Passed on the 3rd IFCSS Convention on July 13, 1991, bill#: 001)

					Initiator: U. Maryland CGSA

OBJECTIVES:

1. To provide information for Chinese students and scholars in US to visit
   China to give lectures, seminars, workshops, or to attend academic
   symposium or conferences, etc.

2. To collect information on possible sources of financial aid (travel and
   accomandations) for Chinese students and scholars in US to participate
   academic activities in China.

3. To correspond with various Chinese academic institutes and societies to
   expand opportunities for international academic symposiums or conferences
   to be held in China.

PROJECT:

In the Short Term:

   To establish connections with Chinese Academy of Sciences and Social
Sciences, universities/colleges and professional societies in China. These
connections will be served for information exchange. The information will be
distributed to overseas Chinese students and scholars, IFCSS member schools
and other students organizations through computer network, news media,
newsletters as well as regular mails. The center will announce the information
of international academic conferences held in China (including time, location
and contact) periodically, along with that of organizations or foundations
which may be sponsors.

In the Long Term:

   To establish relationships with US academic organizations. With their
cooperation, the center will help Chinese academic institutes and
organizations to apply and then organize international academic
symposiums/conferences in China.

[Editor's note: interested readers may contact  AEIC at  [email-masked]
	 for a copy of The Working Plan of Committee of Adademic Exchange]

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4. Chinese Couple's Reunion Ends in Death of Wife . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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>From [email-masked]   Fri Aug 16 17:52:32 1991

Police Seek Clue in the Strangulation od A Woman Who Joined Her Student
Husband 	  (July 11, "Oregonian" by Vivien Lou Chen, EXCERPTS)

It took a year of legal wrangling for 28-year-old Yuan Li-Yang to get from
China to Portland to join her husband.

To do so, she left behind her 4-year-old son, her parents and a job teaching
English at Jinan University in Canton, now called Guangzhou.

In Portland, she joined her husband, Yong Jiao, who was finishing his
master's degree at Lewis and Clark College. She took the nickname "Cathy"
and woked nights as a hostess at a Chinese restaurant before becoming a
clerk at an herbal store.

At 6:20 p.m. on July 3. Yong returned to the couples' second-floor apartment
on Southwest Jefferson Street to find his wife strangled with a belt or tie.

Portland Police are saying little about the case. What they will say is that
they have no suspects in what is Portland's 32nd homicide this year.

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5. Chinese Artist Killed on Midtown Street of NYC . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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>From [email-masked] (Liang Li) Sun Aug 18 14:54:19 1991
Source: UPI

	A street artist working on a sketch in front of a Midtown Manhattan
hotel was shot to death early Sunday before a horrified crowd of onlookers,
police said.
	According to witnesses at the scene, the 2 a.m. shooting in front of
the Milford Plaza Hotel may have been sparked by a chicken bone being
flung at the artist while he was at work.
	Lin Lin, 34, Harlem, was shot once in the chest and was pronounced
dead at the scene, said Sgt. Ed Burns, a police spokesman.
	A neighbor who knew Lin said he was a graduate of a renowned art
school in Shanghai, China, who moved to the United States about four
years ago.
	Arrested soon after the attack was the alleged gunman, James Skinner,
21, and Michael Slater, 19, also of Brooklyn, Burns said. Two
accomplices still were still being sought, he said.
	A .38-caliber revolver was recovered at the scene, the sergeant said.
	Milford Plaza security officer Brian Harrison arrived moments after
Lin was shot, he said.
	"There was a whole crowd of people standing around, and there was
blood everywhere," Harrison said. "As he (Ling) was laying on the
ground, his hands were up in the air and he was grabbing a lady."
	The woman he had been clutching, was apparently a friend of his,
Harrison said.
	Minutes later he died, Harrison said.
	Witnesses to the shocking attack said one of four men who had stopped
in front of the crowd watching Lin work had flung a chicken bone at the
artist who had retaliated by throwing a bottle at them, Harrison said.
	The men fled but returned soon afterward and one man fired at Lin,
striking him once in the chest, he said.
	One of Lin's neighbors, who requested anonymity, said that the artist
had been in the country for about four years after leaving his home in
Shanghai, China, and was a graduate of the renowned art school Zheijang
Art Academy.
	She said the artist, who she called very talented, never got into
fights with anyone. She said he also was committed to the student
democracy movement in his homeland.
	"He had many friends. He was very generous and liked to help people.
And he devoted his life to art," she said.
	When the neighbor first heard about the shooting, she was shocked.
	"That kind of thing should never happen to a person like him," she
said.
	A manager at the hotel, who requested anonymity, said Lin was not
well-known in the hotel area, which he called rough, adding that Lin did
not usually work there.

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