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1. Transcript of CBS Evening News (May 19, 1994, 6:30pm) ...............   17
2. CBS Incident Committee has been established .........................  135
3. Join hands and support the CBS Incident Committee against CBS .......  199
4. Nick Eftimiades and His Book ``Chinese Intelligence Operations''.....  284
5. What is "Class Action Suit"? ........................................  378
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1. Excerpt from Transcript of CBS Evening News (May 19, 1994, 6:30pm)
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From: YANG Chang-Qing 
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Connie Chung (CC): Coming up next, Eye on America.  Tonight, the biggest
spy network in America.  We'll tell you who's running it and how.

CC: The recent Ames spy case served as a reminder that the espionage
business in the country is still thriving; that you don't always find spies
in trench coats and that you could find them in the house next door.  In a
special investigation, CBS News found out how China is grooming agents to
keep an Eye on America.

Unidentified Woman:  Only US citizens continue straight ahead.

CC: Every day, planeloads of Chinese citizens arrive legally in the United
States, ordinary people.  But to the Chinese government, some of them may
be future spies, who a few years down the road, will be activated to steal
American's military and technological secrets, whether they want to or not.

Are there any other countries that you know of that have this kind of spy
network operating here in the United States?

Mr. Nicholas Eftimiades (Defense Information Agency) (NE): No, not--
certainly not to this--to this degrees.

CC: Nicholas Eftimiades, who works for an American spy agency, the Defense
Information Agency.  His new book on Chinese intelligence raises serious
questions for American government and business.

NE: I don't think we can say at this point any Western government is
prepared to deal with this type of espionage threat, because it's different
from anything that we've known to date.

CC: It all starts here in Beijing.  A Chinese student or scientist or
businessperson applies for a visa to go to the US.  Then the Ministry of
State Security starts asking questions: What can you learn in the States?
Will you be working with computers? Will you be loyal to China?  And most
importantly, can you be patient? Eftimiades says the prospective spies are
trained, paid, and warned to stay in touch.  `Remember,' they are told,
`we'll be watching your family members in China. 'Lay low until you're
contacted,' they're told.  It could be years.

NE: Let me put it to you in the terms that the Chinese Intelligence
Services describes it: Chen di yu, which is a Ministry of State Security
slang term for fish on the bottom of the ocean.  This has been defined in
Western espionage as sleeper agents.

CC: So they just sit there like fish at the bottom of the ocean and do
nothing?

NE: They wait.

CC: Until they have to surface.
NE: Exactly.

CC: This man is one of those Chinese fish at the bottom of the American
ocean.  Call him a reluctant spy.  He's afraid he'll be contacted soon to
hand over state-of-the-art computer programs.

Unidentified Man #1: Never forget, you belong to our organization.

CC: `Never forget.' they told him, `you belong to our organization.'

Man #1: You were sent by our organization.

CC: `You were sent by our organization, and this organization belongs to
the Communist Party.'

Man #1: ... Communist Party.

CC: Twenty-three years ago this man, Kao Yen Men, came to the US.  In
recent years, he lived a quiet life in this house in Charlotte, North
Carolina.  And he even bought a restaurant in downtown Charlotte. His
neighbors never knew what he was up to.

Unidentified Man #2: I really didn't know what to think.  I mean, you know,
we came down to this nice little Southern city, and the next thing you know
I'm down the street from a spy.  I thought this was, like, a little fiction
movie or something, but...

CC: Some movie.  After a six-year FBI investigation, Kao was arrested and
charged with trying to steal the advanced Mark 48 torpedo, engines for the
FA-18 Hornet jet fighter and radar for the F-16 Falcon jet.  Kao was
caught, but security expert Pat Pattakos says most American companies are
too naive about the Chinese spy threat.

Mr. Arion "Pat" Pattakos (Beta Analytics): Right now a lot of people don't
really think of protecting themselves.

CC: Especially when the target is information and computer data...

Mr. Pattakos: They'll look at all of this information here that they can
access.

Unidentified Man #3: Yes.

CC: ...all part of the more and more accessible information superhighway.

Mr. Pattakos: I mean, it's very easy to know when a truck is missing in
front of your place.  I mean, it's gone. It's a physical object. But think
about information.  Information is more intangible and people may not
know...realize that it's lost.

CC: Pattakos says a new national strategy between business and government
can trap the spies.  Eftimiades is much less optimistic.

NE: Once these spies get into American society, once they're deeply rooted
into our structure, our society's structure, we're not going to be able to
detect them.  There is no way to stop them at that point.

CC: The FBI is trying to help American corporations protect themselves from
espionage. The bureau has a program now to brief executive about how their
companies could become targets.
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2. CBS Incident Committee has been established
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Welcome to the fcbs-l. This listserv is dedicated to serve the general
CSS community who are angered by biased CBS evening news, "Eye on
America", aired on May 19 1994. As a more or less silent minority in
this land, we Chinese have long been the best target of injustice,
wrongfully stereotype and racial discrimination. Last year, when Golden
Venture went aground, the exposure was pushed to its maximum. No one
asked how many Chinese actually had illegally entered U.S.A. compared to
the other nationalities. The fact is, although New York City has the
highest concentration of illegal Chinese population in the country,
however, its illegal Chinese population ranks barely tenth in the City.
The leading illegal immigrant group, however, is from a European
country, and no body wants to mention it at all. Further more, the
media, intended or not, has portrayed Chinese communities as filled with
gangs, kidnappings, people smuggling and slave labors. While we admit
there are crimes in our community just as in any other communities,
however, most Chinese are law abiding people and more often than not are
victims of various criminal groups.

Now came the CBS report. While the previous hot topic was focused on
illegal Chinese, it seemed that we legal Chinese were exempted from the
biased attack. No way! Legally entered? You are potential spies for the
Chinese government! Are these claims made by Connie Chung the truth? Not
likely.

Now, the CBS made a blatant allegation that any ordinary Chinese could
be a potential spy. It is said that Beijing is the starting point. When
"A Chinese student or scientist or businessperson applies for a visa to
go to the US. Then the Ministry of State Security starts asking
questions: What can you learn in the States? Will you be working with
computers? Will you be loyal to China? And most importantly, can you be
patient?" What is the fact? Such a spy was caught when stealing American
secrets for China. He was portrayed as "Chen di yu", or, "sleeper
agents". His name is Kao Yen Men, who came to the US "twenty-three years
ago". Twenty-three years ago? It was then 1971, when there was no
diplomatic relation between China and US. Chinese students, scientists
and businessmen began arriving in US in 1978, more than seven years
later than Mr. Kao Yen Men ever did. This Mr Kao, even might not be a
Chinese national. Even so, most of the Chinese students and scientists
were J-1 visa holders, or exchange visitors, who were subject to the
vigorously imposed "two-year-home-residency" requirement by US
Intelligence Agency and Immigration And Naturalization Service. There
was no way for these potential "fish" even to think of the "bottom". By
deliberately putting Mr. Kao's isolated case together with ordinary Chinese
people, CBS was implying that the later could be all potential spies.
How to control this army of spies? "Ministry of State Security  will be
watching their family members in China". So, no one can refuse to work
as a spy. They wait to be contacted even it is against their wills. So,
CBS is inspiring a wild imagination. Any Chinese, no matter how innocent
he/she looks or is, could be a potential spy. How come? they have family
members in China, and patient to wait. They have to.

Can we tolerate this kind of allegation? Can you? Please join our fcbs-l
network. Please join our CBS Incident Committee, and fight any
discrimination against we Chinese people. Justice must be served and our
names must be cleared. We will resort to any actions appropriate to the
last ditch. Legal actions, protestings, demonstrations!

United, we stand.
United, we can fight discrimination.
United, we must make a difference!
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3. Join hands and support the CBS Incident Committee against CBS
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From: RSW@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu

Dear fellow CSS,

I missed the CBS report regarding "Chinese spies,"  but I'm with you to seek
justice if the information I'm getting is correct.

As pointed out by many concerned people, we Chinese as a group or a community
in this country are faced with racial stereotype, bias, and injustice, which
are not a rare exception for any particular ethnic group or community.  I see
this as a problem involving eventually all ethnic communities one way or
another.

The difference is, however, we Chinese as a community have not stood up and
made our voices heard as forcefully as other ethnic communities have.  I shall
say that, as individuals, we are second to none in values, abilities and
achievements; unfortunately, as a community, we have yet to demonstrate the
cohesiveness and togetherness other communities have shown.  It is not that 
we are unwilling or incapable; it is that we have not grown to adapt to the
American system, to know how to utilize the administrative, legal and public
opinion means available to us to advance our community interests.

Yet, fortunately, we are growing maturer everyday.  This growing maturity is
seeded in our realization of the importance of organization.  IFCSS is a fine
example of what organization means to our community.  IFCSS' record on a 
range of issues, most noticeably immigration and human rights issues, has been
impressive.  I hope, with immigration and human rights issues now firmly 
established on a stable plane, IFCSS will afford to take on more community
oriented issues, as many activists have urged.  

I disagree with the notion that IFCSS no longer possesses a mandate for her 
existence because of the new political realities (the cooling of democracy
movement, the "delink" of MFN and human rights, the fading of immigration
agenda, etc.).  I believe that the new realities present both challenges and
opportunities for IFCSS to mature and become even stronger both as a political
advocate and as a community representative.  Let's again rally under the
IFCSS flag for a better community and a better China.  

To paraphrase President Kennedy's words:  Ask not what IFCSS can do for us;
ask what we can do for IFCSS to help our homeland and ourselves.  Those who
work hard and sacrifice for our community and our country, regardless of their
political views, deserve our respect, appreciation and support.  United, we
can be bigger than ourselves and do unimaginable things.  This is the American
way, and should be our Chinese way as well.  

I'm quite moved by the responses to the unjustifiable CBS news report.  While
we still have some homework to do as to what is the best way to achieve our
goals, we must act as a group.  Only through concerted action may we define 
ourselves rather than being defined by some uninformed or ill-motivated people.
I'm encouraged by the organized effort in this regard.  For this reason, I
offer my support as an ordinary Chinese citizen and guest in this great but
not perfect country. 

By and large, American people are reasonable, fair and decent.  The trick is 
public opinion, which is often misled or manipulated by the media that are 
becoming increasingly sensational and by politicians who are growing inclined 
to pick on the weak to cover their own inability to tackle the real problems 
facing this nation and society.  It's unfortunate that "only the strong will
survive."  But it's the reality we have to deal with.  So, let's set our own
agenda and counter the bad publicity with wisdom and determination. 

Fellows, the responsibility of fighting stereotype, bias and injustice rests 
on ourselves.  Please do not vent our anger by blaming others who might choose
or have indeed chosen to "delink" themselves from the "Chinese identity"---
genetic or cultural.  Our Chinese pride must be seen in our collective action
and vision.  When we stand up together for our community interest and image,
we will win respect and association not only from our fellow Chinese, but
from Americans and others alike.  

Therefore, I urge refraining from targeting on individuals such as Ms. Connie
Chung (the CBS anchorwoman).  She was just performing her duty, I believe, no
matter what she stands for in her heart.  We must think deeper than that.  I
in fact have sympathy for her having to say what she said in that news report.

So, join our hands and support the Committee against the CBS news report. Yes,
together, we can and will make a big difference!

Respectfully,

Jienan CHEN
University of Florida

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4. Nick Eftimiades and His Book, ``Chinese Intelligence Operations,''
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com (AP)

	WASHINGTON (AP) -- China spies on the United States more
aggressively than does any other nation, and U.S. counterespionage
agencies are ill-prepared to cope with it, according to a new book
by a Defense Intelligence Agency officer.
	Nick Eftimiades, a China specialist and counterintelligence
analyst at the DIA, blames an ``unseen, unspoken'' but real and
deliberate reluctance among U.S. political leaders in recent years
to get tough with China on espionage.
	``People don't want to bang on China,'' he said in an interview
this week.
	In his book, ``Chinese Intelligence Operations,'' Eftimiades
specifically cited the Bush administration's efforts to improve
political relations with Beijing as an ``impediment to effective
action against'' China's espionage.
	Robert Gates, director of the CIA during the Bush
administration, said in an interview it was nonsense to suggest
that counterspy efforts were hurt by President Bush's overtures to
Beijing. But he agreed that China's spying activities have
``probably stepped up'' and ``become more sophisticated.''
	The book's publication comes at a politically sensitive time in
U.S.-Chinese relations, as President Clinton prepares to decide by
next week whether to revoke most-favored nation trade privileges as
punishment for Beijing's reported human rights abuses.
	Eftimiades stressed that his book was not meant as a call to
arms against a threat to Western democracy; indeed, he notes that
China's intelligence operations historically have suffered from
sloppiness, poor planning and weak execution. Even so, he says, the
sheer volume of operations ensures some will succeed.
	``There is no question that their espionage activities are more
pervasive than what we have seen from any other country,''
Eftimiades said in the interview.
	Yet when people think of foreign spying in the United States
they think of Soviet ``moles'' such as Aldrich Ames, a CIA officer
who pleaded guilty last month to selling state secrets to Moscow
for nine years and was sentenced to life in prison.
	They don't think of Larry Chin Wu-tai. He was a CIA analyst who
passed national secrets to Beijing for 35 years before retiring in
1981. Four years after retirement, Chin was indicted on spying
charges and was later convicted.
	Eftimiades has spent 10 years in the intelligence business,
first at the CIA and the State Department and now at DIA, where he
helps assess damage caused by spying against America, including the
Ames case.
	It is unusual for an active U.S. intelligence official to write
a book on spying, and Eftimiades' experience in getting his
published shows some of the reasons why.
	The least of his problems was having the manuscript reviewed by
the government to ensure no secrets were disclosed. The real
trouble came from fellow DIA workers, some of whom were angered
that he did not share with DIA his interviews with Chinese
intelligence officers.
	While some DIA officials protested to his superiors, Eftimiades
said, the agency never challenged his right to publish the book,
which he researched and wrote on his own time.
	He says the American government, including its
counterintelligence agencies, practically ignored China's spying
during the Cold War because the Soviet Union was seen as a more
dangerous and immediate threat.
	Yet even now, after the demise of the Soviet empire, Washington
pays relatively little attention to China's aggressive espionage
and is sorely lacking in the linguistic and other skills required
to combat it, Eftimiades says.
	``The United States and other Western industrialized nations are
woefully unprepared'' to counteract China's spying, Eftimiades
wrote.
	Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA officer who was director of
intelligence programs at the National Security Council in 1984-87,
said in an interview that he agreed U.S. capabilities to neutralize
Chinese spying were lacking at a time when Beijing is ``engaged in
espionage against us in a serious way.''
	China's intelligence apparatus draws on the services of not only
the 11,500 diplomats, trade representatives and other Chinese
visitors here, but also the 15,000 Chinese students who arrive on
U.S. campuses each year and hundreds of thousands of Chinese
Americans around the country, Eftimiades wrote.
	One of China's favorite methods is to ``plant'' long-term agents
in the United States who are trained to remain inactive for 10
years or more, until they have sunk deep roots into a U.S.
corporation, institution or government agency. These are known in
Chinese spy agency slang as ``fish at the bottom of the ocean.''
	Eftimiades said China's top intelligence-gathering priorities in
the United States are advanced U.S. technology for military use;
identifying foreign policy trends, including trade; and
counteracting Chinese dissident groups.
	The FBI, which has primary responsibility for
counterintelligence within U.S. borders, the CIA and the Chinese
Embassy declined to comment on the book.


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5. What is "Class Action Suit"?
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From: zhu@sisko.ecs.umass.edu (Gao-Qiu Zhu)

Here's an entry in the New American Desk Encyclopedia [1984 Edition]:

CLASS ACTION SUIT is a lawsuit brought by one or more members of a large
group on behalf of all members who share a common interest in the issue 
of law and fact, and have suffered a similar wrong for which they seek
relief from the court. If the trial court agrees to hear the suit, all
members of the group must be informed and be given the opportunity, if
they so desire, to exclude themselves from the group.  If a member does
not exclude himself, he must accept the judgement of the court.  One or
more stockholders, for instance, may bring a class action suit on behalf
of other stockholders who object to the policies of the corporations.
Class action suits have been successfully brought against companies
which, over a period of years, systematically discriminated against
women or minorities in their pay and promotion policies.


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2. An unrelated CBS Lawsuit ...........................................  44
3. Marietta Sued In Age Bias Case .....................................  56
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1. A Canadian TV Case
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From: NLUO@msvax.mssm.edu

About 15 years ago there was a program on Canadian TV which suggested that
a large number of places at Canadian medical schools were being taken by
Chinese instead of Canadians.  As it turned out, there were very few
Chinese citizens in Canadian medical schools.  The students in question
were mostly Canadians of Chinese ancestry.

Anyway this incident galvanized the Canadian Chinese community leading to
the formation of some organizations that I believe are still active in
defending the rights of people of Chinese ancestry[B.  They
successfully achieved redress for this wrong by the TV network involved
(CTV's program "W5.")

When this occurred I was living in China, but I remember reading an
article about it in a Hong Kong Magazine "The Seventies" (Qishi Niandai)
later re-named "The Nineties" (Jiushi Niandai).  I am sorry that I don't
have the proper reference or access to Chinese magazines here, but the
issue in question came out sometime in the years 1978-81.

I suggest that you might want to make reference to this very past incident
as there may be some useful parallels.

Charles

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From: zhu@sisko.ecs.umass.edu 
   
   CBS has settled for an undisclosed sum a $10 million lawsuit 
over airing the repossession of a San Francisco man's car on "The 
CBS Evening News", the USA Today reported today.  Herbert Brown had 
sued for invasion of privacy after a CBS crew, with the help of an 
auto repossessor, came into his back yard. He said he was humiliated 
by the segment. No comment from CBS.

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From: zhu@sisko.ecs.umass.edu (Gao-Qiu Zhu)
	
	DENVER (AP) -- Martin Marietta Corp. has targeted older employees
for layoffs, the federal government alleges in an age-discrimination lawsuit.
	The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges 2,200 of
3,500 employees terminated by the company's astronautics group
between 1990 and 1992 were 40 years or older.
	The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court contends the
aerospace company ``manipulated work assignments so as to insulate
as many younger employees as possible'' from layoffs.
	It also alleges the company ``promoted ... or condoned an
atmosphere of hostility to older employees'' that caused managers
to believe that they were expected to select older employees
whenever possible for termination.
	Martin Marietta spokesman Evan McCollum said the company's equal
employment opportunity program prohibits age discrimination. ``We
intend to vigorously defend against the suit,'' he said.
	The lawsuit is the largest class-action suit ever filed by the
Denver EEOC office and is one of the largest discrimination actions
taken by the agency nationally, said William Martinez, an EEOC
regional attorney.
	The lawsuit asks for lost wages, damages and potential
reinstatement of employees.
	The lawsuit was filed as the Bethesda, Md.-based Martin Marietta
is thinking of relocating up to 1,800 workers from San Diego to
Colorado. The workers are employed at Atlas, a subsidiary of
General Dynamics Corp., which Martin Marietta purchased.
	Martin Marietta Astronautics Group, which is based in Jefferson
County, west of the Denver area, earlier was named in an
age-discrimination suit filed by 115 former Martin Marietta
workers. A trial is set in January 1996.
 
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From: hua7291@med2s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu (Mi Mi)

A recent class action case is the Denny's vs. its customers. Denny's
paid $50,000,000. Lawyers had collected several million legal fees.
Any customer then can claim a share of the compensation from the 
$50,000,000. We only want them to pay the legal fee and learn a lesson.
Stop stirfrying illegal/legal Chinese immigrant news!

Who can find and scan in the Denny's case? It should be around May 24.

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2. Against that Particular CBS Report, Nothing More, Nothing Less .....  116
3. Consulting with Other Human Right Organizations ....................  146
4. Class Action .......................................................  170
5. Make a Serious Effort to Seeking Legel Consultants .................  192
6. Demonstration in the proper time ...................................  221
7. Start Working at All Levels ........................................  230
8. A Look at the CBS Report from an American ..........................  269
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1. Some Thoughts Regarding the CBS Incident
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From: RSW@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu

Fellows,

I'd like to offer my 2 cents regarding the CBS incident, as follows.

1.  Goals

Low goal:   Seek a public apology from CBS to ALL CSS, either voluntary or
	    by court injunction.

High goal:  Seek both monetary compensation and public apology by filing a
	    "class action" lawsuit.

2.  Nature

The nature of the incident is defamation, false information and racial
discrimination, wrongfully causing reputation injury, emotional distress 
and potential racial hatred toward CSS.

3.  Strategy

To achieve the low goal, the following may be done:

(1).  Letter campaign to civil and governmental organizations, such as the
NAACP, ACLU, Civil Rights division of the Justice Department, the FCC, etc.

(2).  Contact Asian/Chinese civic organizations for help.

(3).  Press release (fax) to major news organizations.

(4).  Targeted demonstration (at CBS headquarters).  One well organized
demonstration will do (for symbolic purposes).  

(5).  Class action lawsuit.

To achieve the high goal, a class action lawsuit must be pursued.  Remember,
a lawsuit will serve not only symbolic purposes, but also practical 
purposes.  Many news organizations may not want to carry our story for lack
of substantiation.  However, they may be willing to report the lawsuit
matter-of-factly.  Also, win or lose, a lawsuit will likely discourage similar
incident in the future.  Furthermore, even without winning the lawsuit and
monetary compensation, a lawsuit will provide an effective platform to
settle the case with CBS out of court for a public apology (the low goal).
  
4.  Means

Legal redress is the most effective means for our cause.  Given public
sentiment (right or wrong) against immigrants, mass movement may not do
us much good.  Jewish Americans have learned how to take advantage of the 
legal system, African Americans have also, and Asians are learning this
too.  We must learn this "trick" to be a mature community.

I'm no legal expert, but I believe a class action lawsuit is not so difficult
to pursue.  If we have a chance of winning, many money-loving lawyers will
be interested.  Even if we did not have much chance of winning, some lawyers
may still be interested if we can make it a high-profil case.  It is always
more costly for the defendent than for the plaintiff.  We may get an out-of-
court settlement with CBS before we have to spend too much money.  We should
pursue a "double-sword" strategy to generate momentum and put pressure on
CBS.  

I suggest to set up a legal action fund for the initiation of the lawsuit
(consulting lawyers, preparing materials, and filing the lawsuit).  Then we
will see what happens (especially how CBS will react).  We can always drop
the lawsuit if we can get some positive reaction from CBS.  Right now, CBS
may see us too weak to deserve any reaction from them.  We must prove them
wrong and make a serious threat with a lawsuit.  

5.  Some tips

Please be rational as compared to emotional.  I again urge refraining from
targeting on individuals such as Ms. Connie Chung.  She is just an employee
of CBS and what she reported may or may not be her own choosing.  We know
how news stuff gets on the air.  It is often the decision of the newsgroup
or people in charge.  An anchor rarely gets to decide the content of what
he or she reports.  He or she is like a tool or machine in some sense.  The
liability lies in the organization (CBS), not the iondividuals who act on
the organization's behalf.  This is both legal and common sense knowledge.
What's in Ms. Chung's mind or heart is irrelevant here.  BTW, I have no
relationship with her. :-)  Firing someone should not be one of our primary
goals.


In conclusion, as many pointed out, a class action lawsuit against CBS is
inevitable if we want to achieve something meaningful.  Coupled with other
efforts, I believe we will get something positive out of this.  It's time
that we show our identity as a community.

Thanks for bearing with me.

Jienan Chen

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2. Against that Particular CBS Report, Nothing More, Nothing Less
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From: MECE2AZ@Jetson.UH.EDU

Dear MiMi Sr:

	Thank you for your msg. regarding CBS 5/19 Chinese bashin incident. I
whole heartly support any effort in searching for an apology form CBS and any
possible legal action against CBS. I also want to thank you for what you have
done so far. If you have time to continue to read, I would like to have some
input on the focus of this compaign.

	I suggest we concentrate on the discrimitive, insulting and potentially
damaging report by Connie Chung on "Eye on America" on CBS 5/19 Evening News.
But, IMHO, we need to avoid the following impression:
1) that this action is a explosion against general discrimination against all
   Chinese;
2) that we try to link this incident with the issure of unfair media 
   coverage on illegal Chinese immigrants;
3) that we are against the whole media establishment.
	In all, we, the potential victims, are finghting against that particular
CBS report, nothing more, nothing less. For us to have a chance, we can't afford
to lose our focus.

	I also like to take the chance to express my gratitude to your work in
organizing the lad-net. 

Xiaohua Sun, mece2az@jetson.uh.edu

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From: WANG@PCIMSG.PCI.UPMC.EDU
  
  There is an Asian Legal Organization (name?) set up not long  ago
to protect Asians from violent crimes.  I am wondering whether it is 
appropriate to contact them.  If I remember right, CND reported this 
organization a while ago.  Our campus newpaper interviewed the 
organization.  According to the interview, the propose of the 
organization is to protect asians in the USA from discrimination  and
to increase the awareness of crimes against asians.  The CBS report 
may be considered as inciting hatred against Asians.  Nobody can tell
 whether you are Japansese or Chinese just by looking at you, so All 
Chinese-looking asians are potential victims.
 
This is an opportunity worth to explore. I have suggested several
times about consulting with other human right organizations but I
don't know any of them. If we can take advantage of such contact, it
will not only help us directly about this case, but also make the
case more public.

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From: hua7291@med2s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu (Mi Mi)

Class action is the way I am working to find out. If we have enough
money, we can initiate it anyway. But this is very costly process. The best
way is to find someone who sees the chance of winning is huge, and
is willing to collect the fees only after we win. Otherwise, any fundraising
among CSS will be proved temporary and limited. The scale of the fees
could be millions. 

So, we should prepare ourselves, to find more holes in the report. Not
a single CSS believes it is the truth. Only we can find the fault of
it. If, we have punched enough holes in it and a qualified lawyer smells
money in it, then we can initiate it.

As I pointed in our anouncement, Mr. Kao came to US in 1971, and definitely
was not one of the "planeloads of Chinese", and "Student and scientist or
businessman". From this point, it is obvious that the report is based on
fabrication. That could be the key point to win the case.

Anyone can explore this further more?

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From: WANG@PCIMSG.PCI.UPMC.EDU

There haven't been lacking of the postings which strongly suggests to
sue CBS. And most people believe this is the ultimate way to pursue
justice based on the history of human right movement of African
American and other ethnicity groups. And someone correctly pointed
out that success or failure is not the issue. The purpose is to put
CBS on the line and declare to the whole American society that we are
not a group of people who can be treated unfairly without punishment.
Theoretically, I should say I agree. But two basic questions I think
I need to ask before I formally say I agree to sue CBS.
   (1) What will be the legal identity representing those of us who
choose to be represented by it? 
   (2) What will be the nature of this possible law suit? Will it be
a human right one or what? 
   I think the answers to these questions is the key of the
feasibility of the possible law suit against CBS. 
   I suggest we make a serious effort to seeking legel consultent to
see whether we have a clear case here. I don't see any Chinese
students and scholars majoring in law to post any thing about these
issues.  Anybody?
   And I suggest we make some reasonable contact with other human
right organizations to get some experienced consulting. I posted such
suggestion in soc.culture.china but see no response. Anybody have any
idea about this?

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6. Demonstration in the proper time
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From: cliu@wuecon.wustl.edu (Chengyan Liu)

Another thing, in the proper time, we can organize a demonstration in
front of CBS headquarter in New York city in case there's no response
from CBS.

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7. Start Working at All Levels
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From: Rui Sun 

My personal opinion on this issue is that we should start working at all
levels instead of focusing exclusively on suing CBS.

First, a coordinated massive mail campaign should immediately start. 
That's what I am doing here.  I drafted a letter, distributed it to
everyone here at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and asked them to
sign individually before sending it through all channels, mail, fax or
e-mail etc to CBS.  If we can get thousands of such protest letters
flooding into CBS mailbox, they've got to pay attention.  Such action does
cost much and is not difficult to pursue.  Everyone in this group can and
should do it.

Second, if the 1st step does not produce much result, an organized
demonstration can be held on a certain date in front of the CBS headquater
and stations around the country.  We don't need many persons to draw
media attention although more is definitely better.

Last but not least, a long term strategy should be set up for legal
actions against CBS.  This will be the toughest action to take for obvious
reasons.  We have to plan this in a patient and careful way to get any law
firm to take this case.  I beg to disagree with some other opinions that
any lawyer will do it.  A lousy attorny may not only lose the case but
also make a fool out of us.  It does not have to be the best lawyer, but it
should be a reasonably good one.

Also we should contact various Asian American groups, other non-student
Chinese groups, American civil right groups and news agencies to let them
aware of this case and get their support.

These steps can be taken at the same time.  Anyone on this net can
shoulder some of job besides talking and complaining.  But IFCSS has to
take the responsibility to organize and issue "commands" if you want to call
it.

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From:  Newsgroups: talk.politics.china 
       bio3jlk@cabell.vcu.edu (John L. Kasberger)

   I'll add some more bandwidth to the discussion of the CBS report.  Yes, it
was sensationalist, long on speculation and short on documentation.  And it
certainly appealed to the recent wave of anti-immigration and xenophobia
which seems to be sweeping the nation.

   However, nearly all the discussion in this group seems to have missed a
few points:

1)  Free speech is guaranteed in this country by the highest law of the land.
The only types of expression specifically outlawed are those which potentially
endanger others, those which are libelous and those which are slanderous.
Was CBS guilty of libel?  They provided at least some documentation in their
report, something which almost no one in this newsgroup has done in their
arguments.  Anyone who proposes to sue CBS had better have some legal basis
for doing so, and there seems to be very little in this case.

2)  CBS did imply that any Chinese immigrant or visitor could be a spy for
the CCP.  What they did NOT explicitly or implicitly state is that all
Chinese visiting the United States are of a nature to commit espionage,
whether they do or do not.  This latter statement would be slander; the
former statement is simply a statistical statement.  Although CBS could have
pointed out that other nations with which we have diplomatic relations spy on
the United States (e.g. Israel), they are not morally responsible for doing
so, unless they imply that China is the only nation to spy, which they did
not.

3)  If you don't like the editorial content of a network or publication,
don't watch or read it.  You can also tell CBS's sponsors that you object to
the content of CBS's broadcasts.  You can demonstrate publically against CBS.
You can write letters to them.  But all of this activity should be based
around the opinion that, in their report, CBS failed to serve the community.
Unless it knowingly lied -- which no one yet has conclusively demonstrated --
CBS did not act immorally.  Therefore, they owe no one an apology.  However,
they still can be penalized for not serving the community by losing their
Chinese-American market share, a fate I feel they deserve, unless they offer
an apology anyway.

   When I was a kid, I went to see the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Knoxville is a great city, and I remember the wonderful hospitality of its
citizens, but as a native Southerner, I can tell you that the region isn't
known for its multicultural awareness.  Nevertheless, the Chinese pavillion
consistently had the longest lines to see it; the line I waited in was half a
mile long and took one and a half hours to wait in.  The Chinese exhibit had
no 180-degree movie, like the Japanese; no touch-screen laserdisc
presentations, like the Unites States exhibit; nor anything else flashy and
gimmicky like that.  What it had was an excellent demonstration of Chinese
art, artifacts, crafts, and history, understated but quite beautiful and
moving.  I like to think that seeing the Chinese pavillion changed a lot of
people's perspective on China.  The reason I bore everyone with that story is
that is that it gives an example of the best way to fight discrimination:
understanding.  Suing CBS, demanding an apology, and so on is just goind to
further villify Chinese-Americans in the eyes of the typical mainstream
American citizen, who is confused enough by a sensationalist, profit-seeking
press.  Acting to help others understand China and its culture will instead
have a quite positive effect.  Unfortunately, the mass media isn't likely to
help, so anyone interested would probably have to act locally.  But these
things tend to gain momentum if done properly.

-Jay

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1. A Short Report on CBS Incident ........................................ 16
2. Contact with Several Related Individuals and Groups ................... 51
3. IFCSS's Letter to CBS ...............................................  106
4. Four protection letters to CBS ....................................... 181
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1. A Short Report on CBS Incident  
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From: CND-US, May 25, 1994 

[CND, 05/24/94] On May 20th, 1994, after some discussions on newsgroup
soc.culture.china, Mr. Li Xiaolin, Purdue University, drafted a protesting
letter to CBS for its May 19th's evening news broadcasting on hinted
Chinese espionage in the United States. Until May 23rd, he has received
more than 200 co-signers. Mr. Li Xiaolin told CND editor Mr. Chengyan Liu
today that he had mailed the protest letter through Federal Express to
CBS President, Mr. Howard Stringer this morning with co-sign signatures.
He will wait for few more days to process incoming co-sign mails and mail
it accordingly. He has a strong feeling that Chinese Students & Scholars
(CSS) community should organize their activities to against any possible
discriminations and set up a database for such use. [For those of CND
readers who interested in the content of Mr. Li's protesting letter,
please contacted him at xlli@silver.ucs.indiana.edu]

CND editor Mr. Liu contacted Mr. Heping Shi, IFCSS Vice President, earlier
on this regard. He told Mr. Liu that IFCSS had mailed its inquiry letter
[see item 3] through Federal Express to CBS Vice President Eric Ober
yesterday [05/23/94] and support Mr. Li's initaition on signatures'
collecting. However, IFCSS will review the transcript [see item 6] and
the ordered tape, wait for CBS' response before take any further actions.

Mr. Chengyan Liu also contacted Mr. John Xie, World Journal reporter. He
told Mr. Liu that CBS denied any audiences' reponse on regard of their
May 19th's evening news broadcasting, though a dozen of CND readers had
informed CND that they had sent their opinions through Internet fax
service. Mr. Liu therefore showed Mr. John Xie the exact fax number CND
readers used. Mr. Xie expressed his willing for further investigation
and possible report. CND will try to track down any further developments.
(North)

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2. Contact Several Related Individuals and Groups
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From: Qingsong Zhang 

[Mr. Liang does not have email access right now, so I am forwarding the
following upon his request.]

Dear colleagues:

Soon after I learnt the CBS's report on last Thursday from CSS, I become
deeply concerned about the further progress on this issue. And during last
two days, I have contact several related individuals and groups.

First of all, I have called the office of CBS in New York, and have told
Ms. Beth Constock about the concerns on the report from Chinese Students and
Scholars community. I have expressed that we hope CBS could make more
further investigation upon this issue, and give us a correct explanation and
apology. I have also asked her to deliver the same message to Mr. Laurence
Tisch, President of CBS.

Second, I have called Mr. Henry Der, Executive Director of Chinese
Affirmation Association, Ms. Dorothy Lee, Executive Director of Alliance of
Asian and Pacific Minorities, and Mr. Charles Cheung, Vice President of
Alliance of Hong Kong Chinese in the United States. The above three
organizations have put tremendous efforts in the works for the welfare and
civil rights of Chinese and other ethnic minorities in the United States and
against any discriminations. They also have fought together against KFRC, a
radio station in California, for a broadcasted racial joke about Chinese,
and successfully got open apologies from Mr. highs, President of KFRC. I
have informed them to pay attentions to this issue and to collaborate with
and help IFCSS in any further actions.

Third, I have called Mr. Shi Heping in the HQ of IFCSS. Mr. Shi has told me
that he was going to send a copy of IFCSS's official letter about this issue
and send me a copy of the transcript made by Mr. Luo Ning from the video
tape. I am still waiting for it. However, I am ready to send any further
information from both IFCSS officials and colleagues in the CSS community
to leaders in the possible affiliated groups and high-ranking officials in
CBS personally.

I believe that this issue is pertaining to the dignity of Chinese people,
and that all Chinese are concerned about the further progress of this issue.
As a council member in IFCSS, I hope IFCSS HQ can  do a thorough
investigation and keep consistent efforts in this issue, and I advocate more
attentions and helps from you. Because of close-down of computer lab in
summer break of the school, please  send email through Mr. Dong Chen
(dong@ifcss.org) or call me at 415-751-3606, or mail to me at 153 3rd Ave.
San Francisco, CA94118.

Sincerely,

Liang Er
May 23, 1994

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3. IFCSS's Letter to CBS 
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Mr. Eric Ober
President, CBS News
524 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

Dear Mr. Ober:

As president of the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and
Scholars(IFCSS), I am writing you to express my deep concern over the CBS
Evening News report on Chinese espionage, which was aired on May 19, 1994.

The report, with Connie Chung as the anchorwoman, apparently aimed at
warning American businesses of Chinese information espionage. However, it
was structured in such a manner as might very well introduce a bias into
American people's perception of ordinary Chinese citizens.

The report began with these words:

     "Every day, planeloads of Chinese citizens arrive legally in
     the United States, ordinary people. But to the Chinese
     government, some of them may be future spies, who a few
     years down the road, will be activated to steal America's
     military and technological secrets, whether they want to or
     not."

There are several inappropriate points in this paragraph alone.  First, the
number of people who might work as spies was greatly exaggerated. China may
or may not has the biggest spy network in the United States in comparison
with other countries, but the absolute number of spies vis-a-vis the whole
Chinese population in the U.S. is very limited. By using words like
"planeloads", the report greatly exaggerated the proportion of spies.
Secondly, spies are not "ordinary people." The Chinese agency in charge of
espionage would not choose ordinary people as spies; on the contrary, it
relies on those who are most loyal to the Communist Party. Ordinary Chinese
coming to the United States, just like ordinary Americans going to China,
have impeccable business or personal purposes and are very friendly with the
country they visit. Thirdly, Chinese people are not cowards, as was well
demonstrated in the 1989 Democracy Movement, therefore they could not be
forced to work as spies. Chung's statement "whether they want or not" is at
best a distortion of the integrity of the Chinese people. It is well-known
that despite repeated intimidation from the Chinese government, Chinese
students in the U.S. are still carrying on the fight for democracy and
freedom.  On the same day of this report on Chinese espionage, five Chinese
nationals embarked on a 360-hour hunger strike in front of the White House
demanding improvement in China's human rights situation, which once again
demonstrated the kind of courage witnessed by people all over the world in
1989.

For ordinary Chinese students, America represents the land of freedom. It
was the American dream of liberty and democracy which inspired thousands of
young Chinese to lay down their lives on Beijing's streets five years ago.
Because of China's human rights situation, many Chinese students are
choosing to live in the United States for the time being. Instead of spying
for the Chinese government, they are making great contributions to the
American society with their knowledge of advanced science and technology and
fostering a profound friendship between the two peoples.

In the past three days, my organization has received hundreds of messages
and phone calls from Chinese student nation-wide expressing their concern
over the report. They are worried that the unrealistic picture painted by
the CBS Evening News report could negatively affect their life in the U.S..
It is my sincere hope that CBS will take appropriate measures to mend the
damages done and present a balanced, realistic view of Chinese nationals to
the American public.

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely,

Shi Heping
Vice President, Independent Federation of Chinese Students & Scholars

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4. Four protection letters to CBS
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[1] From: Xiao Hong Wang <0005678497@mcimail.com>

In addition to IFCSS's collective action against CBS, I think everyone
should do something individually in the meanwhile. Since we have got the
fax # and email address of Connie Chung and the address of CBS president,
we should all send a complain letter to them, just to let them know that
not only IFCSS's president has a "deep concern", but everybody who has
a chinese origin are angry.

So I just did that. Here is the letter I sent to them:

Dear Ms. Connie Chune:

I watched your CBS news report on a chinese spy on May 19th and I was very
upset about your comments in the report.  Your comments are sending a
misleading message to the America that every people who has a chinese origin
is a potential spy. It is totally untrue and irresponsible.

Can you say that every American in China is a potential spy because a CIA
agent has been found in Beijing? Can you say every anglo-Amercan is a
potential racist because one white man was found painting anti-Semitic
graffiti in public place? Can you say that everyone African-American is a
potential rapist because one black man was found guilty of raping?  No! Any
sound-minded person would not think so and would not say, or even suggest
such viciously irresponsible, racial-hatred provoking comments.

All the people with a chinese origin whom I know have a deep love and sincere
respect for this country. They treasure human rights this country entitle
them to have, which they were deprived of in many other parts of the world.
Many of them have even become an US citizen or a permanent resident, just as
you and your parents did before. Now your comments in that CBS news report
has put me and all other people who has a chinese origin in a trial stand
and made all of us look guilty of spying without a chance of defending
ourselves. We feel that we have been alienated from American society and we
have been terribly violated of all of our rights by your allusive comments.
The image of the hard-working and law-abiding model minority community has
suddenly been distorted as a "potential spy" community.

The damage your comments has done is serious and beyond estimate. How many
jobs will be affected because of the "spying" suspecion? How many people
will be rejected of employment because of this rediculus allegation? How many
children will grow up in a hostile shadow of this "spying" hallucination? How
much racial hatred and distrust will grow due to this irresponsible allusion?
How many families have been beried in grief since May 19th? ...

I am sad, Ms Connie Chune! I am sad and indignant. I demand an apology for
what you said in May 19th CBS news report. I believe that I and all people
who believe in human rights deserve an apology from you and CBS.

Sincerely,

Xiaohong Wang
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[2] From: Muguang Wu 
 
Ms. Constance Chune/CBS:

I strongly protest your gross generalization in your report on May 19
CBS evening news. It is a utterly irresposible act by CBS News. Surely
there are some Chinese spies in this country and even one of the closest
allies of the U.S. spied in this country. However your gross generalization
that every ordinary Chinese who residents in this countries could be a spy
is utterly unfair.

Indeed, in theory no one knows one hundred percent if his next door
immigrant neighbor or co-worker is a spy for a foreign government, but
even to imply that hundreds of thousands of Chinese here are protential
spies for the Chinese government is outrageous. Do you dare to say that
every non-U.S. citizen Jew in this country is a protential spy for the
Israeli goverment? Do you think every Cuban in Florida is a potential spy
for the Cuban government? How about a Russian? A Chinese is a potential spy
just because he is from China? Yes, how do we know Ms. Chune or one of her
family members is not a spy for the Chinese goverment since the Chune
family was originally from China (just because they were Nationalist)? I
strongly hope that CBS will not again resort to sensationalism in its news
report as it did on May 19. CBS News owes the Chinese community here an
apology.

Sincerely,

Muguang Wu
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[3] From: Jianxiong Song 
 
Hi, netters: I just sent out my protest to CBS, it work fine.  Here is my
protest lette.

To:  CBS President Eric Ober and Anchor Connei Chung.

Dear Mr. President and Ms. Anchor:

I would like, through this connection here, to express my most unhappiness and
disappointment about a CBS report on Chinese espionage, aired on May 19, 1994.
I want to point out that the report was totally irresponsible to the innocence
of all the Chinese people here, including their children.  By using over
generalization, exaggeration and imaging such as saying (these ordinary people)
" will be activated (by China government) to steal America's military and
technological secrets", and "it could be your next door neighbor", the report
creates the hostility, distrust and discrimination against our innocence
Chinese of all and will possibly bring the damage to the innocence Chinese's
credibility and opportunity for living and working in America and working for
America.  As innocence Chinese, specially our children, we all have the
constitutional right, as any other people have, not to live being hinted as
"some of them may be future spies" or "fish at the bottom sea".  We certainly
and vigorously decline such kinds of aggressive harassment.  I hereby demand an
appropriate apology from you to clean the biasing mark that CBS air put on the
face of our "ordinary" and innocence Chinese.  If I don't hear any response
from you in two weeks, I will remove the CBS channel from my home Cable TV as
my protest.  I believe most of our Chinese fellow will do the same thing to
show their protest against such kinds of irresponsible and damaging
discrimination and bad behavior.

Sincerely

Jianxong. Song
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[4] From: Jinsong Xiao 

Dear Mr. Eric Ober and CBS News staff:
=09
=09I am a faithful CBS News viewer for a long time and I always
admire CBS=D5s long history of truthfulness and promptness on news report.=
=20
But on May 19, 1994, one piece of news report rocked my admiration.  That
night Ms. Connie Chung=D5s report about Chinese spy appalled me and my whol=
e
family.   In that news report Ms. Connie Chung claimed that every Chinese
is a potential spy.  Chinese students and immigrants in U.S.A are like
fish at the bottom of the sea, she claimed, once the Chinese government
calls upon them, they will surface and become a spy.   I, my family and my
friends think these statements made by Ms. Connie Chung are untrue,
irresponsible, and biased.  Ms. Connie Chung lacked enough evidence to
back up that kind of statements, she was also illogical and irresponsible.
  No one will say every white American is racist because of the existence
of Ku Klux Klan.  This report hurts the feeling of many hard-working
Chinese American.  It misguides the judgement of ordinary American people
and ruins the image of American Chinese.  It  also shows us the narrow,
untruthful, and arrogant side of CBS news.   I, my family and my friends
feel that CBS news should apologize.  And we hope that you can do a better
job in the future.

Regards

Jinsong Xiao
 
 
 
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