chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (01/03/90)
| +---------I __L__ ___/ \ -------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | J * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Jan. 3 (I), 1990 Table of Contents No. of Lines Brief News .......................................................... 15 1. Deng Xiaoping's Newest Title ..................................... 25 2. Release of All Pro-democracy Activists Urged ..................... 38 3. Democracy for China Fund Administered by Greeley Foundation ...... 38 4. Book Review: Tiananmen Square ...................................... 31 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brief News ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) According to Nobel Peace Prize Committee, the nominee for Nobel Peace Prize 1990 are (1) M. Gorbachov, (2) President Havel (Czch), (3) Ms Chai-Ling. source: Norwegian Television Network (NRK) News Jan. 2. 1990 From: wang@lys.uio.no (wang) via china-net (2) The Fifth Annual Conference of the Chinese Young Economist Society (CYES) was held from Dec. 23 through 24, 1989 at the University of Pitts- burgh. Despite bitter coldness, more than eighty members and guests from America and Canada attended the conference, including Nobel laureate Herber Simon. Eleven papers about the Chinese economy were presented. Dr. Hsin Chang (Xin Zhang), assistant professor at the University of Toledo, was elected as the new president of CYES. The new board of directors consists of Sun Dee (Maine), Hai Wen (UC Davis), Shi Zhenfu (Maryland), Zuo Xuejin (Princeton), Xie Jirong (Toledo) and Wang Kangmao. Source: Wall Street Journal, 1/2/89 From: FAX0431@UOFT02.BITNET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Deng Xiaoping's Newest Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tang@riscc1.scripps.edu Source: Wall Street Journal, 1/2/89 By Adi Ignatius Beijing -- At the highest level, China has created a group under the Commun- ist Party's Central Committee to deal with potential disturbance, according to Chinese sources. The Urgent Contingency Preparation Group is headed by 85-year-old Deng Xiaoping. The government is taking other steps to damp potential opposition, for example by postponing the planned release of some of the thousands of pro- democracy activists arrested after the June massacre. It is also trying to buy the loyalty of some workers who have been laid off during the economic retrenchment that began in in late 1988. In Beijing, laid-off workers are being summoned to their factories each day. Though they don't work, they draw all of their salary, compared with 70% when they were at home. Nonetheless, the city is abuzz. A single protest poster, pasted briefly on a wall at Peking University, has people all over Beijing talking. Though few claim to have seen it, students claim it depicted Ceausescu as a dog and said, "One dog is killed, while three remain [in China]." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Release of All Pro-democracy Activists Urged ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU (J.D.) Source: United Press International, 12/30/89 Taipei -- Exiled leaders of China's pro-democracy movement Saturday urged Communist leaders in Beijing to release all detained democracy activists and accept an investigation by human rights groups into the June massacre. An open letter addressed to Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Party leader Jiang Zemin, President Yang Shangkun and Wan Li also demanded punishment "according to the law" against "murderers and those responsible" for the June 4 crackdown. The open letter also called for compensation to families of victims of the army massacre, and a stop of persecution against democracy movement activists. It also called for a dialogue between the Communist government and exiled democratic organizations, and a safety guarantee for returning students who took part in anti-government demonstrations while studying abroad. Wan Run-nan, secretary general of the Paris-based Front for a Democratic China, initiated the open letter during a conference on Democracy Movement and China's Future being held in Taipei. Wan is one of the 14 exiled leaders of the democracy movement participating in the seminar sponsored by Taiwan's Institute of International Relations. Also taking part in the meeting are 146 China observers and delegates from the New York-based Alliance for Democracy in China and the Independent Federation for Chinese Students and Scholars. Organizers of the seminar say some delegates from the three organizations attended the meeting under pseudonyms. But the seminar also saw the first public appearance of Zhang Kang, former deputy director of the Liaison office of China's Institute of Economic Restructuring. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Democracy for China Fund Administered by Greeley Foundation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mok@hdsrus.enet.dec.com Source: Boston Globe, 1/2/90 Associated Press A private, nonprofit foundation has teamed with activists for democracy in China to establish a fund to raise about $1 million this year for the Chinese cause, it was announced yesterday. The Greeley Foundation, a Concord, Mass., organization, has agreed to oversee and administer the Democracy for China Fund established to support a range of humanitarian, educational and informational programs. "We've given the fund an added reality and momentum," said Marshall Strauss, a veteran fund-raiser and executive director of the new China fund. "We have taken a significant step forward." Strauss said the fund-raising target for 1990 is$940,000, which would "break down into a number of categories of humanitarian assistance for sup- porters of the bloody uprising in Beijing's Tiananmen Square last spring. He said the funds raised through private donations will help student leaders trapped in China since the June demonstrations leave the country. Also, the funds will support activists in exile and maintain an underground network between Asia and the West. Strauss said the Greeley Foundation's support would give the China fund both a non-profit, tax-deductible status and important air of legitimacy. "It will provide the stable administration of the money so that those who donate the funds will know the money is being used in accountable ways," he said. The 4-year-old Greeley Foundation, which focuses on creative solutions to global conflicts, established the International Negotiation Network based at former President Jimmy Carter's think tank in Atlanta. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Book Review: Tiananmen Square ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- condensed from UWO GAZETTE by Xin Lu luxin@uwovax.uwo.ca Scott Simmie & Bob Nixon Tiananmen Square Douglas & McIntyre, 206 pages, $19.95 TIANANMEN SQUARE serves as an elaborate account of the events leading up to and after the June 4 massacre in Beijing's Tianan- men Square. The book succeeds at providing great amounts of back- ground information -- information that 30-second newsreels just aren't able to provide us with. Workers, students, and state- supervised journalists give this book an incredible amount of insight. One startling example of this, something that was completely overlooked by network news, was the "Goddess of Democracy." A statue that was erected on May 29 in Tiananmen Square, the "God- dess of Democracy" proved to anger more marchers than it united. Simmie and Nixon establish the variance in opinion about what the uprising was about. The book dashes away the pet conception that the media presented -- that the uprising revolved around a crusade for a liberal democracy. At the same time, it monitors the changing mood of the protestors as they evolved from a rela- tively small group of patriots, honoring a long-time sympathizer, to a swarming mass who captured the world's attention with their hunger strikes and cries for political reform. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Executive Editor: Sanyee Tang, tang@riscc1.scripps.edu | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jan 3 10:49:17 EST 1990