chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/17/89)
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From: tang@ssurf.ucsd.edu (Sanyee Tang) Source: World Journal, 12/15/89 (2) Bulgaria Paliament on Friday passed an amnesty law for political prisoners and changed the penal code so that Bulgarians can no longer be prosecuted for "anti-state activity" and "crimes against allied states." On Thursday, Justice Minister Sevtla Daskalova told parliament that 53 prisoners would be released in the amnesty. It was not immediately clear if other political detainees would remain in custody. From: Tang@alisuvax.bitnet (Deming Tang) Source: Des Moines Register, 12/16/89 (3) The East German government said Friday it will disband the militia that imposted Communist Party control at factories for four decades. The government ordered the factory militia to be dissolved by June 30, said the official news agency ADN. Western estimates put the force at 3,000, with the capacity of mobilizing 400,000 on short notice. From: Tang@alisuvax.bitnet (Deming Tang) Source: Des Moines Register, 12/16/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Chinese Couple Hijacked Jumbo Jet, Land in Japan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu Source: Associated Press, 12/16/89 TOKYO - A Chinese couple hijacked a China Air jumbo jet carrying 223 people Saturday. The plane was forced to touch down in Japan with only 40 minutes of fuel left after South Korea refused to let it land, officials said. The jet landed in the western city of Fukuoka almost 4 hours after leaving Beijing. The passengers were freed unharmed, Japanese officials said. The couple, armed with only a knife and accompanied by a child, were seized by police and were being questioned. The Boeing 747 was flying from Beijing bound for the U.S. when it was taken on its harrowing journey. The Japan Broadcasting Corp. identified the man as Zhang Zhenhai, the 35-year-old manager of a Beijing cotton factory in China's Hebei province. The man said he was fleeing China with his wife and 10-year-old child. The network said the man fled China because of the June crackdown by the army on the pro-democracy movement, in which the man said he participated. The man was seriously injured when he was apparently pushed from the plane after it landed, the network said, and the woman he identified as his wife was overpowered by crew members. Flight 981 was traveling from Beijing to New York with stops scheduled in Shanghai and San Francisco. A knife-wielding man commandeered the aircraft before it landed in Shanghai, an unidentified Japanese Transport Ministry official said. The aircraft headed into South Korean airspace over the southernmost island of Cheju. It sought permission to land in Seoul but was refused, according to a South Korean Defense Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity. South Korea and Communist China have no diplomatic ties, and there are no commercial flights between them. Japan Broadcasting said the hijackers had sought to land in Taiwan, seat of the Nationalist Chinese government, but were denied permission. When the jet entered South Korea airspace, South Korean and Japanese jet fighters intercepted the plane. Four Japanese military jets escorted the jet to Fukuoka, said Defense Agency spokesman Hironobu Mizoguchi. The jet landed at Fukuoka, 560 miles southwest of Tokyo on the island of Kyushu, after the pilot said he only had 40 minutes of fuel left. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Japan Wants To Return To China Family That Hijacked Jet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu Source: Associated Press, 12/16/89 TOKYO - Japan will seek to return to China a family who hijacked a Chinese jet, an official said Saturday. The jet was on its way to the U.S. Saturday with 223 people aboard. Tokyo also will "speedily" return the Air China Boeing 747, which was commandeered by a knife-wielding man who said he had a bomb. The man was pushed from the plane after it landed with only 40 minutes of fuel left. "We will take procedures toward returning the hijackers to China," Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobuo Ishihara told a news conference. Ishihara stopped short of saying the family of three, which included a 10- year-old boy, would actually be sent back to communist China. In Communist China the family would be certain to face harsh retribution. Japan cannot automatically deport the hijackers if they ask for asylum, and Ishihara noted the government has not confirmed the family's wishes. The father, who was identified by police as cotton factory foreman Zhang Zhenhai, 35, is being treated for injuries suffered after he was shoved out the back door of the plane by a crew member after arriving in Fukuoka, 560 miles southwest of Tokyo. The Chinese Embassy in Tokyo asked Japanese government to return the plane, its passengers and crew, and the hijackers to China as soon as possible, said Foreign Ministry China Division chief Koreshige Anami. Zhang told Japanese police he intended to bring aboard a bomb but instead left it at a hotel in Beijing, the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) reported. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Sakharov Eulogized In U.S.S.R. As Conscience Of The Nation --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu Source: Associated Press, 12/16/89 MOSCOW - Andrei Sakharov, the scientist who built the Soviet hydrogen bomb and became a human rights leader has died at age 68. The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner died alone in his study Thursday night of an apparent heart attack, said his son-in-law, Yefrem Yankelevich. He risked his status as a national scientific hero to challenge the government when most others were silent. Sakharov was vilified by the authorities and banished from Moscow in 1980 for nearly 7 years of internal exile that sapped his health. He was freed by President Mikhail Gorbachev three years ago and won a seat in the Soviet Congress. He used it as a forum to press for reform. His death occurred after a long day of trying to organize an opposition to the Communist Party. He was preparing a speech demanding that the Communists' guaranteed hold on power be revoked, Yankelevich said. The defiant activist's final words to his family were: "Tomorrow there will be battle," Yankelevich said. Sergei Kovalev, a fellow human rights activist in Moscow, said the body was found by Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, his partner in their human rights campaigns at about 11 p.m. Moscow time. Sakharov had suffered from angina, but during a visit to the U.S. in 1988, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital determined he did not need heart surgery or a pacemaker. Born May 21, 1921, Sakharov first became known as a great scientist. He was inducted into the Academy of Sciences in 1953 at age 32, the youngest-ever member. Like his father, he became a physicist. In 1948, he joined physicist Igor Tamm in developing the hydrogen bomb and for 20 years lived and worked in secrecy, with many privileges. But Sakharov began to worry about the morality of developing weapons of mass destruction. In 1961, he urged Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to stop nuclear weapons tests but was told not to meddle in politics. Two years later, the Soviet Union agreed to such limits in a treaty with the U.S. After Sakharov formed the Human Rights Committee in 1970, he became better known as a dissident leader. The physicist's tireless campaigns on behalf of disarmament and human rights won him the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. At first, he avoided the punishments heaped upon other dissidents. But he was stripped of his Soviet awards after he criticized the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and then-Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev banished him in January 1980 to Gorky, 200 miles east of Moscow. Sakharov was never charged with any crime or put on trial. He was released in December 1986 and recalled to Moscow by Gorbachev. Sakharov took a leading role in urging the Soviet leader to follow through on his policies of economic restructuring and politicial openness. perestroika, or restructuring, and glasnost, or openness. In June, he told the Soviet Congress he had no regrets. "I am proud of this exile in Gorky like a medal I wear." +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Deming Tang E_mail: tang@alisuvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Dec 17 12:15:43 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/18/89)
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1) Clear Some Confusions about SAG (student affair group) ........ 45
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1. Clear Some Confusions about SAG (student affair group) of FCSSC
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FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada
== Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese)
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There have been some confusions about the newly created student
affair group. As known alreday, this is a group of VOLUNTEERS
who would like to do something for our students and scholars in
Canada. Currently, they are mostly working on the "family reun-
ion" issue.
1) SAG under FCSSC is now contacting Immigration officers in
several cities to get a clear picture of the government's policy
up-to-date.
2) We are consulting with Immigration lawyers to get legal help.
3) We are still collecting cases and up-to-date information
related to family reunification. Please forward them to
WANGRQ@sscvax.McMaster.ca Your cooperation is mostly appreciated
and all information is confidential.
4)We are cooperating with CCNC and CBIE and the local action com-
mittees to accelerate the process of family reunification pro-
cess.
5) We still need more volunteers to contribute to this group:
including to collect cases and information now.
6) The latest information on the family reunification issue
should be published to you through ( Qu@tandem ) whenever there
is.
7) The spokenman of this group is Mr. Oliver Yuan who is the
vice-president of the FCSSC in charging of external affairs of
the FCSSC.
e-mail: PT132760@admin.carleton.ca
University of Carleton, Ottawa
We will report you any information from the Immigration Ministry
and other sourses. The family issue is a very tough and new
problem to many of us, we have to carefully deal with it in order
to get some positive not negative products.
in name of S.A.G.
Qu@tandem
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