chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/06/89)
| +---------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. 6 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News .................................................... 18 1 Rally At Harvard University To Honor Students Killed In TAM .. 43 2 Students Enjoy The Military Training ........................ 78 3 Deng's Plea on Japan ........................................ 16 4 Castro Set For Landmark Visit ............................... 32 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- About 10,000 protesters in Taiwan ended a 30-hour siege of a government office after a losing opposition candidate filed a complaint accusing the ruling Kuomintang of vote fraud in Saturday's parliamentary elections. Official results showed that the governing party won 58% of the vote, while the oppostion DPP garnered about 33%. From: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet Source: The Wall Street Journal, 12/5 Czecholsovaks protested a news communist-dominated government. More than 150,000 demonstrators filled Prague's Wenceslas Square and rejected the coalition presented Sunday, which brought five non- communists into the 21-member cabinet. The protesters demanded free elections. It was the first mass rally since a Nov. 27 strike that brought government concessions. Also, thousands of Czechoslovaks visited the West as the government lifted travel restriction. From: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet Source: The Wall Street Journal, 12/5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Rally At Harvard University To Honor Students Killed In TAM Square --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) December 04, 1989 More than 500 people attended an emotionally charged rally at Harvard University to honor the Chinese students killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre six months ago. Wu'er Kaixi, 21, a coordinator of the Chinese student movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square who fled his homeland after the June 3rd massacre, paid tribute to fallen colleagues Sunday. "They stopped tanks and rifles with their young chests," said Wu'er, now a special student at Harvard. "Those who died, may you rest in peace. You died but your spirits prevail. We are still fighting to achieve the dream of 1 billion." After his speech, Wu'er, now active with the Federation for a Democratic China, an exile group composed of student leaders and intellectuals, clutched his chest and collapsed near the podium. He was rushed from the lecture hall by campus police. Wu'er, who reportedly has a hereditary heart problem, later recovered. One heckler in the audience said, "You are a victim of American television exploitation." About half of the crowd was Chinese students and some leaders at the rally criticized President Bush for vetoing a bill last week that would have allowed some 40,000 Chinese students to remain in the United States when their visas expired, instead of returning home to possible persecution. The Bush administration said it would take other steps to allow many students to remain in the United State. Liu Binyan, a prominent exile who was kicked out of China for speaking out against the government, also criticized Bush for not taking a harder line with Chinese leaders. "What President Bush is doing now is hurting the relationship between the USA and the Chinese people. This kind of behavior causes great disappointment," he said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Students Enjoy The Military Training --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (UPI) December 04, 1989 [BY: LUBMAN, SARAH] College freshmen forced by the government to undergo a year of military training are being put through a grueling regimen of exercise and relentless political indoctrination with virtually no academic content, Chinese sources said. The 738 students from Beijing University, the class of 1992, consists of youths whose average age is estimated at 17 and includes students as young as 14. The year of military training, which began in October, was ordered for the entire incoming class of Beijing University as part of the ideological crackdown that followed the army's bloody suppression of the student-led democracy movement last June. The prestigious college was a center of last spring's protests for greater freedom, which began on university campuses and spread nationwide in the biggest challenge to 40 years of communist rule. The state-run press has stressed the military training at Shijiazhuang Military Academy, a spacious complex 100 miles southwest of Beijing, is not meant as punishment, and said students were enjoying their term in uniform. A barrage of propaganda in the Chinese media has portrayed the students as extolling the joys of military discipline and shooting practice, as they attend lectures on topics such as "My Ability to Contribute to Defense." But informed Chinese sources, some with first-hand knowledge of the program, recently contradicted the official accounts. They said the students feel oppressed by heavy doses of propaganda and are concerned they will be behind when they enter regular classes next fall. "The government is trying to wear them down physically and mentally," one source said. Numerous foreign journalists have asked to visit the academy since the program began, but Chinese authorities have refused. The sources said the curriculum at Shijiazhuang consists almost exclusively of political propaganda. The students' day begins at 6 a.m. and includes four hours of army-style physical training and light labor. All contact and communication is closely monitored and all letters are inspected, the sources said. Lights out is at 9:30 p.m. Aside from English and Chinese classes, students have no courses or reading material in their chosen fields of study. But whereas most university students enroll in six or seven classes per semester, the Beijing University freshmen must take 12, sources said. Among those are classes devoted to lengthy political harangues given by Chinese leaders blasting the spring protests as a subversive plot to overthrow the system. They include speeches by Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin and senior leader Deng Xiaoping. Other "classes" include reading articles in the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the party, Chinese "revolutionary history" and a course devoted solely to studies of "the crushing of the counterrevolutionary rebellion." "Counterrevolutionary rebellion" is the government's official term for the popular uprising against the army, which opened fire on demonstrators in Beijing June 3-4. At least hundreds of people died. Food at the Shijiazhuang Military Academy is reported to be poor and servings insubstantial, with meat-filled dumplings available only once a week. Official commentary on the compulsory military training characterizes it as an expression of "concern" by the Communist Party that students have the correct political foundation. One article maintained: "This is not punishment, but shows the sincerity of the party and the people in cherishing and expressing concern for the students.That is the kind of feeling which only a mother can give." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Deng's Plea on Japan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET (Chan Ki Wa) Source: HKNET Digest Sun, 3 Dec 89 Volume 8 : Issue 3 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, still apparently dictating foreign policy despite his "retirement" last month, called yesterday for improved relations with Japan. Deng, 85 met former Japanese foreign minister Yoshie Sakurauchi who was visiting China for the Japanese Association for Promotion of International Trade, the Xinhua News Agency reported. It described their meeting in Beijing's Great Hall of the People as "cordial and friendly". No details were given. An official Japanese source quoted Deng as saying he attached much importance to Sino-Japanese relations and that he hoped they would develop and be promoted. China's ties with Japan deteriorated after the army crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in June, prompting limited economic sanctions. Japan is Beijing's second-biggest trading partner after Hongkong and the third-largest foreign investor. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Castro Set For Landmark Visit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.NET (Chan Ki Wa) Source: HKNET Digest Sun, 3 Dec 89 Volume 8 : Issue 3 China's communist leaders are to welcome Cuban President Fidel Castro - one of the few ideological allies they still have - to Beijing in February, a Latin American diplomatic source said yesterday. The source said no precise date had been fixed for the landmark visit, which follows a call by Romanian President Nicolae Caesescu for a closing of ranks after 'deviations" from socialist orthodoxy in East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Castro, who was ignored for 30 years by the Chinese, as an ally of Beijing's rival Moscow, is now in favour, following his cry of "Marxism- Leninism or death" at the start of the year and his party's support for the smashing of China's pro-democracy movement. In January, four months before Moscow and Beijing officially barred the hatchet, Isidoro Malmierca made the first visit to China by a Cuban foreign minister since Castro came to power in 1959. In June, only a few days after the Cuban Communist Party beat even the Romanians in backing Beijing's bloody suppression of the democracy movement, Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen was in Havana for the first time. Castro's visit in February would set the seal on "the meteoric progress to normalisation of Sino-Cuban relations," the source said. The political warming has been accompanied by economic deals such as the project to build 150,000 of China's Flying Pigeon bicycles a year in Cuba. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Dec 6 08:36:40 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/06/89)
| +---------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. 6 (II), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ........................................................... 5 1) News on the Family Reunion from Canadian Embassy in Bejing .......... 40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- source: CBC radio, 6 December 1989, 1 am. [from CHOWR%HSCvax.McMaster.CA] In a study of 2500 men and women in Shenyang, researchers have found a high incidence of lung cancer. Though many of the study participants contracted lung cancer from smoking, a significant number (about 15%) have developed the disease from air pollution. Shenyang is a heavily industrialized city in northeastern China. -rc -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. News on the Family Reunion from Canadian Embassy in Bejing - by the Student Affair Group of FCSSC FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada == Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese) SAG == Student Affair Group of FCSSC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yesterday, the Hamilton local CIC office received a telegram from the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, concerning the recent prro- cessing of the applications of the spouses and children of the Chinese students and scholars in Canada. Mr. Nigro, the Hamilton CIC chief offcer, said: Canadian Embassy is overloaded with the applications from spouses and new students (by more than 100%). But the family reunion issue is still the priority for the Embassy. What the Embassy wants is: to ask the Chinese students who want to bring their spouses and children to Canada, to contact their local CIC and provide your sposes' name, address and related information in Chinese. Then the local CIC will send the information to Canadian Embassy, and the Embassy will contact the spouses and family members in China to have their physically exiamined and the application processed. Instead of the spouses going directly to Embassy and asking for visitor's visa or the landed immigration. It should be other way around. For more information on the issue, please contact your local CIC office. But Mr. Nigro suggests us to wait for a while for the respond from Ottawa -the headquater of Immigration, since FCSSC has already sent a inquiry letter to the Minister of Immigration,a couple of days ago. SAG will keep informing you any progress on this family reun- ion issue. If you have any suggestion and inquiry, please send it to in%"wangrq@SSCvax.McMaster.ca" - Dennis, SAG member of FCSSC LUDENNI@JHEvax.McMaster.CA ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Dec 6 15:07:20 EST 1989