chi@VLSI.WATERLOO.EDU (02/10/90)
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PFH and Its Distribution Report ..................................... 39 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- News Brief ----------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Source: (Unconfirmed) People from Beijing Via "Xu, Gang" <GXU@KENTVM.BITNET>, CND Staff. ---------------------------------------------- Masscre in MUXIDI (west Beijing) was unbelievable, he (the source) heard from the direct eyewitness that soldiers shot at people and tanks rolled over people. Their count of death toll is several thousands to ten thousands. (Remeber Taiwan-born famous singer Hou Dejian said he estimated more than one thousand bodies in one hospital!) (2) Source: (Unconfirmed) People from Beijing Via "Xu, Gang" <GXU@KENTVM.BITNET>, CND Staff. ---------------------------------------------- One institute of Academia Sinica (the source does want to reveal name of institute, he is still scared to death) was assigned a quota to report 120 people who participated demonstration, the institute refused, so a working group was sent to the institute to handle this matter. The personnel director was arrested for his personal involving to the movement. (3) Source: (Unconfirmed) People from Beijing Via "Xu, Gang" <GXU@KENTVM.BITNET>, CND Staff. ---------------------------------------------- All doctoral graduates in Academia Sinica were assigned jobs outside Beijing; all master graduates were sent to countryside with their residence registration (HU KOU) to be re-educated until well-brainwashed. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. China and USSR Open Talks On Reducing Border Forces ----------------------------------------------------------------- >From chenh@ucs.indiana.edu Fri Feb 9 Source: (AP) News BEIJING - China and the Soviet Union Friday began a second round of talks aimed at reducing forces along their 4,300-mile border. The border is patrolled by hundreds of thousands of troops on each side. The Soviet Embassy said the talks on cutting military forces and armaments along the frontier will continue until Feb. 22. The official Xinhua News Agency, reporting on the opening of the talks, said the two sides ''commented positively on the first round of talks held in Moscow last November and expressed readi- ness to make further efforts to reduce the military forces in the border area to the minimum level corresponding to their normal and good-neighborly relations.'' An embassy official said the Soviet delegation is led by G.V. Kireev, chief of the Foreign Ministry department for socialist countries in Asia. The two sides agreed to open talks on troop levels along the frontier when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visited Beijing in May. Gorbachev said the frontier should be turned into a ''border of peace'' and pledged to withdraw 12 divisions, or 120,000 sol- diers, from the border by the end of this year. The Soviet Union is believed to have some 600,000 troops along the Chinese border. China, armed with less sophisticated equipment, has an esti mated 1 million troops on the frontier. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. International Reform Leaders Exchange Strategies for First Time ----------------------------------------------------------------- By LESLIE DREYFOUS, Associated Press Writer From: Fangzhen Lin <lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU> CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The architects behind boycotts, strikes and massive rallies that have altered political landscapes from the Berlin Wall to Soweto gathered Friday to con- sider where to go next. ... Leaders and scholars of democratic movements in China, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and elsewhere spent the day exchanging strategies and stories of reform; discussing what works and what doesn't in the context of dramatic political change. ... The story in China has been slightly different, but Li Lu, a leader of the student protesters who riveted the world last June, said the movement's impact cannot be overlooked and must not be misunderstood. ''The goal of the students was to make the people aware of their situation and our power to effect change,'' said Lu, who is on his country's most wanted list and was forced to flee after the massacre of protesters in Beijing's Tienanmen Square last spring. ''Almost everyone now is aware of the movement. The next step is real, practical change.'' Such changes could also be spurred by the recent popular uprisings across the Soviet bloc and radical changes in the U.S.S.R., where this week the Communists voted to end one-party rule, Lu said. ''We have a very conservative dictatorship in China,'' he said. everywhere around them.'' .... ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3. PFH and Its Distribution Report ----------------------------------------------------------------- by Xu Zhequn, VP of FCSSC >From FS300310@YUSol.BITNET Sat Feb 10 ------------------------------------------------------------ FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada == Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese) ------------------------------------------------------------ 1) PFH is not a conmercial newspaper, most people working for PFH are volunteers. So it's hard to expect it to reach a profes- sional level. It's not even published regularly as it is sup- posed, for example, today is Feb. 10, but people in Toronto haven't received the original of Jan. 30 which PFH Canadian Edi- tion will make it as Feb 10. When Ho Pin receives the original, he has to work at least one full day to change it to Canadian Edition and then send it to Sing Tao Newspaper for printing, Sing Tao will print PFH free of charge but at the time of available, sometimes it could even delay for three or four days. All these factors make it very hard to be a regular newspaper and reach to the readers on time. 2) For the distribution, a few York Chinese students have been volunteerly doing the distribution, since it's totally volunteer job and the subscription number and address kept chang- ing, it's hard to blame them for not doing things perfectly. BTW, the distribution will be shifted to Ho Pin's team once FCSSC has its office. 3) Financially, PFH is relying on the donations from groups and individually, and not very much is from subscription. The subscription rate in Canada was set very low in order to attract more subscribers, especially for individual subscription. To contact directly: Ho Pin's phone no. is 416-862-8042 (he doesn't have an e-mail address) Xu Zhequn from York University --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription: (Xinmeng Liao) xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sat Feb 10 17:10:39 EST 1990