chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/22/89)
| +---------I __L__ ___- i \ ------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | _/ * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Dec. 22 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1. Hardline Leader Falls in Romania .................................. 25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Hardline Leader Falls in Romania -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The wave of reform that has swept Eastern Europe is claim- ing another victory. This time, the government of Romania has fallen, along with its hardline leader, Nicolae Ceausescu. Reports from Romania say that overthrown dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife Elena, has been arrested. It is not clear where they were arrested. Romania soldiers who opened fire on protesters on Thursday, joined the demonstrators. Protesters in Bucharest climbed on tanks, shouting "We are for freedom!" Diplomats say Corneliu Manescu, 73, the head of the National Salvation Front, which seized power in Romania, is one of the leaders of the movement against Nicolae Ceausescu. The crisis in Romania and other developments in the Eastern Europe will top the agenda when a Soviet Communist Party delega- tion begins a week long visit on to China on Saturday. source: from Broadcast News in Canada (Cable TV 22 in Toronto area) 9:30 a.m. December 22, 1989 via rzhu@violet.uwaterloo.ca =================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Dec 22 11:21:51 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/22/89)
| +---------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) -- Dec. 22 (II), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ....................................................... 20 1. Britan Intends to Give 225,000 HK Chinese Residence Right ........ 29 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Chinese President Yang said that if Israel gives up its violent policy and looks for dialogue with PLO, it is possible that China would build di- plomatic relationship with Israel, according to official news agency of Egypt. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: Reuters, AP, 12/20/89 (2) Guangzhou city police announced the arrest of a Hong Kong businessman on Dec. 16 after holding him for months in custody, accusing him of assisting the escape of democracy movement activists in China. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: Reuters, AP, 12/20/89 (3) Mr Bush's administrative directive may bring freedom to a Chinese cou- ple. They illegally entered the U.S. with the woman who had been forced to take abortion for several times in China. Mr Li Jinlin and his wife were caught by INS in the last march. Mr Li's wife then had a baby in New York City. The couple have a 10-year-old daughter already. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: Reuters, AP, 12/20/89 (4) The government of Romania has fallen. The hardline leader, Nicolae Ceausescu escaped after he had been captured with his wife Elena in a helicopter. His whereabouts has not been known yet. source: BBC noon news report, 12/22/89 via ND correspondent from UW. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Britan Intends to Give 225,000 HK Chinese Residence Right ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU (J.D) Subject: Associated Press, 12/20/89 By: Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer Britain said Wednesday it will give special residence rights to an estimated 225,000 Hong Kong Chinese to prevent a crippling brain drain in the colony before it reverts to China in 1997. Right-wing legislators in the governing Conservative Party threatened a parliamentary rebellion against what one called an appalling wave of immigration. The opposition Labor Party condemned the plan. Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told the House of Commons that a maximum of 50,000 key people in Hong Kong's public and private sector would be given full British citizenship, along with their families. He estimated the total at 225,000 people. "Many of those who are leaving would not do so if they could obtain the assurance of right of abode in the United Kingdom," he said. In Hong Kong, the government welcomed the package though Governor Sir David Wilson. Several legislators said they would have preferred full passports for all British nationals. Wilson said the package was not "solely for the elite" and would help create the stability the colony needed. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Executive Editor: Sanyee Tang, tang@ssurf.ucsd.edu | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/22/89)
| +---------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) -- Dec. 29 (III), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1. Ceausescu Overthrown In Romania .................................. 67 2. Official Rally Turns into Mass Protest in Romania ................ 51 3. Developments in EE and SU: Massacre in Timisoara, Romania ........ 80 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ceausescu Overthrown In Romania ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: YAWEI%AQUA.DECNET@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Source: Associated Press, 12/22/89 Vienna, Austria -- Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown Fri- day after 24 years of oppressive rule. Fighting was reported between army units siding with protesters and forces loyal to Ceausescu. There were conflicting reports about who is in power. Ceausescu was forced to flee by a popular revolt that lasted less than a week but claimed the lives of hundreds of people slain by security forces. Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of Bucharest and oth- er cities as reports of Ceausescu's ouster spread. Protesters seized state television to announce the ouster. But hours later, television broadcasts abruptly stopped and were re- placed by recorded music. Radio, still in the hands of demonstrators, said that demonstrators are "in danger" from security forces. News reports said Ceausescu, 71, and his wife and second-in command, Elena, fled their presidential palace in Bucharest by helicopter. Television reported first that they had been seized near the town of Tirgoviste, about 45 miles northwest of Bucharest. Minutes later, television cast doubt on its own report, saying Ceausescu apparently fled again. [The newest air report said they were captured again.] Romanian television reported later that Nicu, the Ceausescus' eldest son, had also been captured. Before he was caught, Nicu tried to assume command of the security forces in Sibiu, a south Transylvanian city he had ruled as local Communist party chief, the television said. Earlier reports described fierce fighting in Sibiu between army troops and paramilitary police. Several senior military commanders appeared on radio and television to announce the ouster of Ceausescu. But reports on radio and television indicatedt the struggle against Ceausescu, while apparently won in Bucharest, was continuing in the south Transylvanian city of Sibiu. "A massacre is going on in Sibiu," an unidentified general said on Romanian television. He added that the army had run out of ammunition in Si- biu to fight what he described as an all-out attack by paramilitary Commu- nist Party units. On radio, an unidentified general said planes would be sent to Sibiu to try to stop the fighting. An unidentified general denied an earlier report on the radio that De- fense Minister Vasile Milea committed suicide but said he had died. The radio report indicated that, during the night, a struggle occurred between the army, which appeared to be largely on the side of the demonstra- tors, and the nation's vast security forces, who were more loyal to Ceauses- cu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Official Rally Turns into Mass Protest in Romania ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: YAWEI%AQUA.DECNET@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Source: Associated Press, 12/21/89 Vienna, Austria -- Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu sents tanks and troops into a crowd of protesters who interrupted his public speech by boos and jeers Thursday. Several demonstrators were killed. Petar Tomic, a Yugoslav reporter, said an armored vehicle crushed two students, other students rushed to their aid and troops opened fire, killing or wounding at least 20 people. U.S. diplomats counted at least 13 people killed Thursday and more dead were possible, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. During a brief lull in the the shooting, elderly people appealed to pol- ice and soldiers not to fire at the young protesters, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reported. Mass protest began after Ceausescu was shouted down while addressing an official rally in a downtown square in the capital, an occurrence unheard of during his 24-year rule. Viewers on state TV and listeners on state radio only heard muffled sounds of boos and jeers before the live broadcast abruptly stopped. Radio and TV quickly switched to stirring patriotic songs. But Hungarian TV showed a disconcerted Ceausescu, clearly aware something was amiss, and a man advising him, ''Come inside.'' The broadcast soon resumed, with Ceausescu midway through a stirring ap- peal to defend ''the independence, integrity and sovereignty of Romania.'' About 25 minutes after his mass rally drew to a close, thousands of mostly young people marched down the nearby central Magheru boulevard. The crowds were chanting ''Down with Ceausescu!'' and calling for the is coming to their East European and Soviet neighbors. Submachine gunners and tanks tried to push the crowds back, and bursts of automatic-weapons fire were heard as the protesters scattered. A Polish couple interviewed by Hungarian TV said soldiers fired on about 3,000 demonstrators in Arad. Resistance to Ceasescu spread to other cities in Transylvania, to Mol- davia in the north, and Bucharest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Developments in EE and SU: Massacre in Timisoara, Romania ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU (J.D.) Source: United Press International, 12/20/89 By Erika Laszlo Budapest, Hungary -- The Yugoslav agency Tanjug said Wednesday Yugoslavs exiting Romania at Vrsac reported hearing gunfire Tuesday in Tim- isoara, where police reportedly cracked down on protesters Sunday. Tanjug said as many as 2,000 people may have been killed in the weekend clashes, but it was impossible to verify the report. Other estimates ranged from a few dozen killed to many hundreds, with many others wounded or arrested. A State Department official said Wednesday morning, "We have not been able to get into the town of Timisoara, which is surrounded by troops, but our embassy people have talked to enough people to satisfy us that a bloody massacre took place there. We don't have any numbers." In Athens, several of about 50 Greek medical students returning home from Romania estimated that 600 to 1,000 people were killed and many more wounded when police and troops opened fire on demonstrators in Timisoara. One student, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, "Troops and security forces fired at random to disperse the demonstrators. There were bodies everywhere, especially around the municipal building." Another quoted a nurse working in a hospital as saying there were at least 600 dead and many hundreds wounded, some with their bodies badly mutilated. A girl student said: "I saw doctors cutting off legs and arms of wounded people because they had no choice, since there is a shortage of medicine. It was terrifying to see people die in the hospital from hemorrhage, screaming with pain." She said she saw burned shops, cars and bookshops, and portraits of hard-line communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu being destroyed. "I saw children dead in the streets," as police fired indiscriminately at people who shouted, "Down with Ceausescu," and, "We want freedom," she said. A fifth student interviewed said: "It was like hell." The tanks came into the streets about midnight Sunday and opened fire on the demonstrators. They kept firing for some 12 hours, "shooting at men, women and children." "Hundreds of bodies were thrown into the river." He estimated the death toll at about 1,000. Tanjug quoted visitors as saying the city was "in ruins," with virtually every shop window smashed and all businesses and offices closed. Tanjug, citing reports from travelers returning to neighboring Yugoslavia from Timisoara said demonstrators had seized weapons and ammunition and fired at Romanian troops. Tass said troops with automatic weapons and militiamen patrolled Bucharest's tense streets Tuesday and that security measures were stepped up at state offices, factories and plants. "Tiananmen was nothing when compared to the shooting in Timisoara," a Western diplomat coming from the Transylvanian city told Tanjug. He was quoted as saying the death toll could reach 1,000. Witnesses said Romanian soldiers, after scattering protesters with gunfire, hunted down protesters in a house-to-house search early Sunday, gunning down several people in their homes. The protests apparently were triggered by a court order last week for the eviction of the Rev. Laszlo Tokes, a Timisoara clergyman of the Romanian Reform church and one of the country's best-known human rights activists. Tokes' father told a West German daily newspaper in a telephone call Wednesday that the clergyman and his wife were tortured. He said Mrs. Tokes, who was seven months pregnant, lost her baby and the torturers broke his son's arm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Executive Editor: Sanyee Tang, tang@ssurf.ucsd.edu | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------