%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Editorial Board of CBS Incident Committee %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Thursday, June 16, 1994 ============================================================================= *** Special Report: Daily News Has Covered CBS Incident *** ============================================================================= (Daily News, one of the largest English paper in NYC, interviewed Mi Mi Sr., the coordinator of CBS Incident Committee on June 14 and has covered CBS incident.) The following is typed in By Mi Mi Sr. (Lin Huang) Daily News, June 15, 1994 Page 3 Chung-lash For report about spies By Ying Chan Daily News Staff Writer Some Chinese-Americans who were once loyal fans of Connie Chung are charging her with betrayal. The flap began last month, when the CBS anchorwoman, in an evening news segment, reported on an alleged extensive network of Chinese spies in the United States. "Everyday, planeloads of Chinese citizens arrive legally in the U.S., ordinary people," she said. "But to the Chinese government, some of them maybe future spies..." The report included an interview with Nicolas Eftimiades, the author of a book about the trend, who told Chung that Chinese spies are like "fish on the bottom of the ocean," who waited years to surface. Since the May 19 broadcast, more than 600 Chinese students at universities around the country have signed protest letters to the network. And at a press conference Saturday, a dozen Chinatown groups called for an apology. Yesterday, Chung - sounding mellow but non apologetic - called the furor a misunderstanding. "We were doing the story based on information from U.S. intelligent experts," said the anchorwoman. "The dispute should be with the intelligent experts," she said of the reports by U.S. Counter-intelligence specialists. But critics charged that Chung has simplified the issue in her broadcast and misled viewers. "CBS suggested that every Chinese in this country could be spies for China," said Lin Huang of the Bronx, a City College graduate student spearheading the protest. "This is like crying the yellow peril again." %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Editor of CBS Incident Committee: Miao Ye % % Sign on/off at listserv@ifcss.org, with mailbody as: % % sub fcbs-l Firstname Lastname, or signoff fcbs-l % % Post at fcbs-l@ifcss.org % % Anonymous ftp at ifcss.org:/ifcss/cbs % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%