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Book Review [Reader's Digest] ..................................... 43 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brief News ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ls2r+zhiyong@andrew.cmu.edu and yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu Source: Voice of Free China, 1/7/90, and Associated Press, 1/5/90 VFC -- Minzhen branch in Taiwan will be established formally on June 6, 1990 to commemorate the 1989 Democratic Movement in China. This was announced by General Secretary Wan Runnan of Minzhen (Federation for Democratic China). The preparation committee is headed by Professor Wu from Sun Yat-sen Univer- sity. The name of the Minzhen branch will be "The Committee to Promote Chinese Democracy" (Zhongguo Minzhu Cujinhui). AP, Beijing -- The government has quietly released three Beijing college students jailed for taking part in the spring democracy movement. College students said three students from the Beijing College of Aeronautics who were arrested returned to their dormitories Thursday night. Other sources said some older intellectuals who supported the protests also have been released in the past few weeks, but no figures were available. None of those released was prominent in the protests. Nine Chinese U.N. employees are protesting orders to return home when their contracts expire and say their pro-democracy activities are being held against them, U.N. staff officials said. But U.N. spokesman Francois Giuli- ania said Friday the cases were examined and that the "contracts cannot be renewed unless their government asks us to do so." The U.N. employees union has protested to Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on their behalf and its officials have said they will support the Chinese if they seek pol- itical asylum. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Police Detain American Teacher at Beijing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: QIANGLI@SERVAX.BITNET Source: United Press International, 1/6/90 Beijing -- Chinese police have detained an elderly American teacher at a Beijing college for allegedly taking photographs that "they termed porno- graphic," a U.S. Embassy spokesman said Saturday. Other foreign teachers acquainted with the man detained, however, said they believed the incident may be politically motivated because he is a Romanian ethnic. "They said he was detained for taking photographs which they termed por- nographic," the US embassy spokesman said. "We haven't heard his side of the story yet." Tabor was expected to be released from detention on Monday, the spokes- man said. Chinese authorities could not be reached for comment late Satur- day. Foreign teachers contacted at the institute said they knew only that he was taken away by police on Friday. The foreign teachers suggested, however, the incident may have political implications. The Aeronautics Institute has been the scene of renewed polit- ical unrest recently despite last spring's crackdown on the student-led democracy movement. "He's a Romanian, and maybe they're afraid of him," one teacher said. Seven students from the Aeronautics Institute were arrested last month for staging a daring protest outside a government ministry. A graduate stu- dent was also arrested last week for putting up a poster on campus hailing the Romania upheaval, foreign teachers said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Mainland Students Meet to Map Strategy Against Bush Veto ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU Source: Associated Press, 1/6/89 Cambridge, Massachusetts, US -- About 200 Chinese students and a California lawmaker met at Harvard University on Saturday to organize opposition to President Bush's veto of legislation protecting Chinese from deportation. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the bill's sponsor, encouraged students to pressure federal legislators to override the veto. The measure, which re- ceived overwhelming support in Congress, would prevent the Immigration and Naturalization Service from forcing Chinese students to return to their homeland after their student visas expire. Bush argued that a presidential directive would serve the same function as the bill. Pelosi said, however, that a directive was not as strong as an executive order and can be withdrawn whenever the president pleases. Zhao Haiching, chairman of the National Committee on Chinese Student Af- fairs, said White House officials had told him the veto was necessary to give the president flexibility in foreign policy. "What does the administra- tion mean by 'flexible?' We don't want to be flexible with our lives," he said. "President Bush is wrong to try to cozy up to the leaders in Beijing who ordered the massacre last June in Tiananmen Square," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement delivered to the group. "We must do everything possible to ensure that these brave students do not become pawns or bargain- ing chips in the administration's future dealings with that repressive re- gime," Kennedy said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Chinese Salute Romania Revolution ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: QIANGLI@SERVAX.BITNET Source: Associated Press, 1/5/90 Beijing -- "Salute the heroic, fearless Romanian people," reads one postcard mailed to the Romanian Embassy in Beijing. It is signed, "a Chinese." "The dictator is ousted, welcome a new era," begins another, signed "a Chinese citizen." The embassy has received several dozen messages of congratulations from official Chinese institutes, workers and even a soldier in the two weeks since Romanian citizens rose up against hard-line Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. "All expressed solidarity with the Romanian people and satisfaction with what happened in our country, but said nothing about their own problems," a Romanian diplomat said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The diplomat was amazed that Chinese mail workers delivered the postcards with daring references to "the reactionary ruler" and "the dicta- tor." "They must have seen the messages, they are open," he said. The postcards were anonymous, but one letter came from workers at the No. 2 Automobile Factory in central China, a leading state-owned facility, and two Chinese who telephoned from Beijing factories said they spoke for their co-workers. Even a unit of the government-run Chinese Academy of So- cial Sciences and several other state institutions sent signed letters, the diplomat said -- before Chinese Premier Li Peng and President Yang Shangkun recognized the new Romanian government Dec. 27. The diplomats said that like the Chinese, they received information about the fighting in Romania mainly from foreign news reports. But many Chinese, assuming the embassy had up-to-date information, called and asked for the latest news. "They told us they were listening to the Voice of Amer- ica and British Broadcasting Corp. They said they were keeping their radios on, just like in June," one said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Developments in EE and SU: Albania, "Beacon" of Stalinism ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu Source: Associated Press, 1/7/90 Vienna -- The Communist leaders of isolated Albania have staunchly denied any intention of following the trend toward democracy in Eastern Europe. But Communist leader Ramiz Alia may come under increasing pressure to change, both from abroad and inside the country. Cautious reforms inside the nation increasingly conflict with adherence to the rigid communism of Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. There were unconfirmed reports of unrest at Tirana University's student dorms last summer. Yugoslav media, in reports denied by Albanian officials, have spoken of anti-government protests in the cities of Shkodra and Korca last fall. King Leka I, the pretender to Albania's throne who has lived in South Africa for the past 10 years, said in an interview published Friday that leaflets urging Albanians to overthrow their hard-line government will be dropped by balloon into the closed Balkan nation bordering the Adriatic. Albanian emigre groups in Europe, meanwhile, are said to have petitioned West European parliaments to help the Albanians win freedom. Dec. 12, Alia justified the refusal to follow Eastern Europe by stress- ing that Albania, which severed ties with Moscow in 1961 and China in 1978, is not like other Communist countries. Albania is the last East European country to revere Josef Stalin, whose statue stands in the capital, Tirana. Even more important is Hoxha. He died in 1985, but his name remains sacred for Albania's leaders, who last year opened a museum to enshrine his every deed in the national memory. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. BOOK REVIEW TWO [Reader's Digest, January 1990, An Editorial Review ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Robert Nielsen, pp. 136-140; condensed by luxin@uwovax.uwo.ca] Zbigniew Brzezinski THE GRAND FAILURE: THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF COMMUNISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Charles Scribner's Sons, New York $27.95 The former U.S. national security adviser, now a professor of government at Columbia University, declares that the revolution- ary movement that has shaken the world during the past seven decades is in "terminal crisis." Communism has failed miserably to live up to its promises -- especially its promise of a good life for the "toiling masses" -- is convincing. Examples are these disclosures of Soviet living conditions: At least 50 million deaths has been caused by the communism move- ment. Most of these deaths and shattered lives can be blamed on two men, Stalin and Mao Zedong. Stalin caused at least 20 million deaths by his purges, farm collectivezation and terror campaigns. Another 20 million were arrested, driven from their land or blacklisted. Although figures of equal reliability are lacking for China, it's possible that Mao surpassed Stalin as a mass killer. In the brutal effort to force peasants into the People's Communes in the late '50s and early '60s, perhaps as many as 27 million peasants died. Brzezinski traces these horrors back to the theories of Karl Marx and the practices of Lenin. The "grand failure" is rooted in a "grand oversimplification" -- the idea that private property is the root of all evil, and that its abolition would lead to true justice and the perfection of human nature. At its simplest level this doctrine justified violence against "enemies of the people," the owners of property and wealth. Adapting Marx to Russian con- ditions, Lenin added the idea of dictatorship by an elite in the name of the working class. His dogmatic intolerance made anyone who disagreed with him an enemy to be crushed. "It was Lenin who created the system that created Stalin." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Executive Editor: Sanyee Tang, tang@riscc1.scripps.edu | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Jan 8 10:19:24 EST 1990
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (01/08/90)
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From: Hong-Lin Yang <yang@cascade.carleton.cdn>
I just got a letter from the International Student Advisor in
Carleton U. about the family reunification of the Chinese stu-
dents. It may be useful to some of our country fellows. I copied
it as follows:
TO: All Chinese students with spouses and children
in China
We received today the following information from the
Canadian Bureau for International Education. This is in regards
to the family reunification policy of Canada Immigration.
Below you will find the information which has been copied
directly from the CBIE Information Package #6:
"Family reunification is the first priority of the Canadian
Immigration Program at missions abroad. The Canadian Embassy in
Beijing is prepared to facilitate the admission of spouses and
children of Chinese citizens who have been given approval in
principal for PR in Canada. It is not necessary to wait until PR
status is obtained here in Canada. What is necessary for the
Chinese citizens in Canada to do is to make a request for the
family reunification at the same Canadian Immigration Center
(CIC) which is handling his/her applicaiton. The CIC will then
inform the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. Any request made directly
to the Canadian Embassy in Beijing won't be acted upon and will
be returned to the CIC of the applicant in Canada."
International
Student Advisor
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