chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/02/89)
| +---------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. 2 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ..................................................... 20 1) Traffic Accident Killed 22 .................................. 13 2) Woman Workers Are Being Poorly Treated ...................... 28 3) Devaluation Will Trap Foreign Exchange Certificates Holders .. 69 4) Polish Student Leader to Meet with IFCSS President ............ 26 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) A book called 'Recommentary on The River Elegy', which critisizes the TV film 'River Elegy', is recently published in China, China News Agency reports. This book has been chosen as a political material for college students. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 11/30/89 (2) A Democracy movement organization in New York once again has collected over 10 thousands signatures and will submit a petition to UN to protect Chinese people's human right. Since June, over 30 thousands signatures have been collected. The United Nation will discuss the issue about China's human right situation next March. Chinses representatives are trying to convince those represenatives from developing countries not to discuss this issue. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 11/30/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Traffic Accident Killed 22 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) November 28, 1989 A bus plunged into a river in southern China, killing 22 passengers and injuring seven, the Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The bus was carrying 29 people when it fell off a bridge Sunday about 88 miles northeast of Naning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Xinhua said. The injured were rescued by farmers and passers-by and hospitalized, the official report said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Woman Workers Are Being Poorly Treated --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) November 28, 1989 Women are being laid off and poorly treated under current state efforts to streamline workforces in factories, according to a survey by the China Women's Journal. The survey of northeast China's Liaoning province found that many women are being laid off by factories that consider them surplus or redundant, the journal said in a report carried by the official China Daily on Tuesday. It said women were the victims of "optimum reorganization" of the labor force, China's euphemism for laying off workers. Very few people are ever fired in the nation's state-run enterprises and laid-off workers usually receive their base pay. However, only 4.5 percent of laid-off women continue to get bonuses, a substantial part of incomes, and welfare benefits. An investigation made earlier this year by the All-China National labor Force Commission found that enterprises considered 20 percent of their employees to be surplus or redundant, and 64 percent of them were women. Women make up about 37 percent of the urban workforce. Many enterprises are also now refusing to hire women because maternity leaves and early retirements drive up welfare costs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Devaluation Will Trap Foreign Exchange Certificates Holders --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net Source : SCMP Nov. 29. Wed. [by David Chan] Reports of an impending devaluation of the yuan and the unpublicised practice of limiting the conversion of China's Foreign Exchange Certificates (FEC) into ohter currencies have caused a minor uproar among those in possession of the FEC's. The devaluation, which the Beijing Government has vehemently denied for several months, is "a fact of life", according to an economist analyst who said the yuan is far overvalued. According to reliable sources, the devaluation, which is expected to be announced between a week and two months, is to be between 15 and 18 per cent, far higher than the previous devaluation of nearly 16 per cent in July 1986. However, the devaluation is expected to be of considerable benefit to Hongkong as about a quarter of its imports come from China. Observers said that news of the impending devaluation of the yuan, which is expected to affect the value of the FECs as well, may cause a minor upheaval among many foreign corporates, which either maintain business with China, have sole or joint ventures on the mainland and have large amounts either tied up in FECs or in the local currency. At the same time, they said the devaluation is inevitable given the overheated economy over the past three years which the state has yet been unable to contain. The present malaise in FECs dates back to the early 1980s when it was introduced both as an inducement to foreign tourists and as a safeguard against local people acquiring foreign products to the detriment of the state. However, as the reform policies developed, FECs, which were only allowed to be circulated at a few designated points in a limited number of cities open to foreigners, became de facto legal tender. In most places, they even superseded the yuan as many foreign products could be acquired only with FECs. At the same time, FECs could also be taken out of the country while it would be an offence to do so with yuan. Hence there has been a large amount of FECs in unofficial circulation outside China. Since the June 4 Tiananmen crackdown, there has been a sharp reduction in foreign business in China and, with the departure of many foreign businessmen, there has been a sudden demand to convert FECs into foreign currencies. A fortnight ago, the authorities imposed a ceiling on the amount of FECs that could be exchanged into foreign currencies. Even a devaluation of 18 per cent, a figure several reliable souces have quoted, would be regarded as insufficient as the price index for daily commodities had gone up by more than 30 per cent in many areas since the last devaluation of the yuan three years ago, analysts said. New Pacts signed: Hongkong Standard Nov. 29 Wed. Iran has told China at the start of economic talks in Beijing that convertible currencies would be used in trade between the two countries from next year. According to an agency despatch Iran and China have concluded agreements for the building of dams and power plants. They also agreed to co-operate in agriculture and in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Polish Student Leader to Meet with IFCSS President From: Ya Liu <liu@lpf.UMD.EDU> IFCSS Liaison Office News Release No. 30 Nov.30, 1989 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sunday, December 3, Mr. Mariusz Popielarz, a leading activist of the Independent Student Association in Poland, will be invited to IFCSS headquarters office to meet with IFCSS leaders. The purpose of the meeting is to establish a formal relationship between IFCSS and Polish Independent Students' Asso- ciation and also to arrange for IFCSS' President to attend a three-week international student Jamboree in which visitors will meet with Poland's prime minister and Lech Walesa. Mr. Popielarz has been engaged in Poland's democracy movement since 1983. He established an underground magazine "Impuls" in 1987 and has assumed many posts in student organizations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat Dec 2 16:00:53 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/02/89)
| +---------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. 2 (II), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News .................................................. 51 1) Presidents In Beijing Universities Called For Help To St ..... 50 2) Bruce Morrison Said Bush Yielded To Beijing Presssure In Vet.. 31 3) E. Germany Eliminate Constitutional Guarantee Of Com ........ 56 4) China Agriculture ........................................... 26 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) A Catholic organization in the U.S. reports that another catholic father has been arrested by Chinese government, for the father and his church in Hebe province refused to join the 'Patriotic Catholic Association'. The report says that in April this year, over a thousand armed policemen were send to the village church and arrested 30 church-goers. About 350 people in the village were injured in the conflict. The father fled away but was arrested in September in Beijing. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/1/89 (2) About 10 Chinese students and aliens officially announced to derail any relationship with Chinese government. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/1/89 (3) While university priciples in the U.S. were signing the letter to Mr. Bush to protect Chinese students in the U.S., 10 university priciples in Beijing were also writing a joint letter to ask Mr. Bush not to sign HR2712, stating that the bill would cause difficulties and damages for students in China. Official radio station in Beijing reported that letter. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/1/89 (4) Chinses district attorneys are authorized to strike and crakdown any antigovernment activities and mobs, according to China News Agency. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/1/89 (5) FDC's L.A. branch office will be announced on December 3rd. FDC has gradually set up its network in the U.S. Preparations are also made in other 16 states and/or cities such as Washington D.C., Boston, Huston, Seattle, Arizona, San Diego, ect. So far there have been 500 to 600 FDC members in the U.S. From: simone@NYSPI.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/1/89 (6) Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who won affection of the world with her perfect 10 scores in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, has abandoned her apartment, car, and financial security in Romania and opted for the freedom in the West. She crossed into Hungary 3 days ago and arrived today in the U.S., where she has been granted refugee status. She is among the tens of thousands of Romanians who have fled the oppressive regime in Bucharest in the last several months. From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu Source: NY Times/AP --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Presidents In Beijing Universities Called For Help To Stop The Legislation --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) November 30, 1989 Ten Beijing university presidents wrote an open letter to their American counterparts to help stop legislation allowing Chinese students in the United States to prolong their stay, Xinhua reported late Thursday. China's official news agency said the educators warned the Emergency Immigration Relief Act passed by Congress "would seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and result in a strong reaction from the Chinese government." The letter said the legislation would create enormous difficulties for Chinese universities and jeopardize educational exchanges between the two countries, Xinhua added. President Bush said Thursday he will veto the measure, which is intended to help students who fear persecution in China. He said he will extend the same protections through administration means. Some congressional supporters of the bill said they will try to override the veto. The legislation would allow the nearly 40,000 Chinese students in the United States to change their visa status to stay for more than four years and then allow them to apply for permanent residency. Under Chinese-U.S. agreements, Chinese who study in the United States now have to return to China for two years once their studies end before applying to the United States for a change in visa status. The U.S. bill came after a crackdown on dissent in China. Thousands of Chinese in the United States joined demonstrations or criticized the Chinese government after troops suppressed the pro-democracy movement in Beijing in June. The Beijing presidents' letter said that 236 students from the 10 state-controlled universities returned from abroad since June and were "received warmly and are being well looked after." The presidents denied any persecution was going on in China. Signers included presidents from Beijing University, Qinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Science and Technology University and other institutions that were centers of student activism during the pro-democracy movement last spring. The Beijing government officially protested the legislation and threatened "strong response." It has not said if it might suspend student exchanges. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Bruce Morrison Said Bush Yielded To Beijing Presssure In Veto --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: yawei@rose.bacs.indiana.edu (CND Correspondence) Source: AP News WASHINGTON - President Bush Thursday said he was vetoing a bill to allow Chinese students to remain in the U.S. after their visas expire. He called the measure unnecessary and an infringement on his presidential authority. Bush said in a statement that the measure was unneeded in light of administrative steps he had taken to accomplish the same ends. The president said he was directing the attorney general ''to take the steps necessary to extend administratively to all Chinese students in the United States the same benefits'' that were in the rejected bill. However, a congressional sponsor of the legislation, Rep. Bruce Morrison, D-Conn., accused Bush of yielding to pressure from the Beijing government. China had strongly opposed the measure. Bush earlier criticized the measure, claiming it was unneeded because he already agreed to extend student visas in the aftermath of the government's bloody crackdown on protesters in Tianenmen Square in June. Congressional sponsors of the measure, however, said that Bush's gesture didn't go far enough. Sponsors also said many of the 40,000 Chinese students studying in the U.S. hadn't taken advantage of Bush's gesture. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. E. Germany Eliminate Constitutional Guarantee Of Communist Monopoly --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: yawei@rose.bacs.indiana.edu (CND Correspondence) Source: AP News EAST BERLIN - Parliament Friday voted overwhelmingly to change the constitution and eliminate the Commu- nist Party's guaranteed monopoly on power. This reform was demanded by the mass movement for democratic change. With only about five lawmakers abstaining, the rest of 500-member People's Chamber appeared in a show of hands to approve the change. The Communist-dominated Parliament had been expected to address a new travel law. Parliament speaker Guenther Maleuda opened the parliamentary session 40 minutes late to announce that the party leaders had met to change the agenda and put the issue of Communist domination as their first order of business. East German politicians had been discussing the need strike Article 1 from the constitution, which guarantees the Communists a ''leading role.'' But no definite steps had been taken in that direction. Friday's action may have been spurred by the swift decision in neighboring Czechoslovakia this week to repeal its constitutional provision guaranteeing the Communists a monopoly on power. The leader of one of the numerous small parties allied with the ruling Communists, Guenter Hartmann of the National Democrats, told East German television that all party leaders in the parliament agreed on the need to consider a constitutional change. Maleuda explained at the start of the East German parliamentary session that a two-thirds majority of the members' votes was needed to change the constitution. Such a revision has been demanded by opposition groups, and even the Communists have conceded they should give up the unfair advantage. The agenda change temporarily took attention away from a criminal investi- gation into alleged abuse of power by former East German leader Erich Honecker and other ousted officials. Authorities Thursday stripped Honecker of immunity from criminal charges. They began an investigation of al- leged abuses of power by Honecker and other disgraced Communist officials. Authorities also sealed off a country estate where Honecker and other ousted leaders have lived, apparently to prevent removal of evidence. The moves were the strongest indications to date that the former leadership will be made to account for alleged abuses. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. China Agriculture --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) November 30, 1989 China plans to produce a record 412 million tons of grain next year as the state puts more land into cultivation and invests more in the countrysie, Agriculture Minister He Kang said. He said at a meeting Wednesday that grain production will be up from an estimated harvest of 405 million tons this year, the official China Daily reported Thursday. He said the nation also hoped to produce up to 4.4 million tons of cotton next year, up from this year's output of about 4 million tons. Substantial gains are also planned in production of edible oils, meat and fishery products. The minister said 1.63 million acres of land will be put into grain production, making the total 272 million acres. Following a record grain harvest of 407 million tons in 1984, China has had four straight sub-standard crops, a result of poor weather and low state-set prices for grain that have discouraged production. Good weather has helped raise output this year, but the harvest will still fall short of the 1984 figure. Chinese agricultural experts say the nation must increase output by at least 10 million tons a year, to 500 million tons at the end of the decade, just to keep up with population growth. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat Dec 2 16:53:25 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/02/89)
| +---------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. 2 (III), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ................................................... 8 1) "The Six Evils" .............................................. 32 2) China Considers Passport Fee As Way To Stop 'Brain Drain' .. 61 3) First Election With Legal Opposition Parties In Taiwan ...... 20 4) China Faces Increasing Isolation ............................ 92 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) A court in Tibet has sentenced 11 Tibetans, including Buddhist monks, to prison terms of up to 19 years for dissident activities and working for independence from China, the official Chinese press said Friday. From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> SOURCE: BEIJING (UPI) 12/01, 1989 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. "The Six Evils" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> SOURCE: BEIJING (UPI) December 01, 1989 Authorities Friday ordered the city's prostitutes, gamblers, swindlers, drug traffickers and pornographers to surrender and inform on others or face jail. The order, announced by the municipal government in the Beijing Daily, an official newspaper, was the latest salvo in a campaign against what officials have branded "the six evils." The "evils" include gambling, prostitution, drug trafficking, pornography, selling women and children, and swindling through games employing superstition. Authorities demanded anyone involved in the activities "stop right away" and surrender within a month. Those who turn themselves in and confess or report on other offenders "will be given lenient treatment or not investigated," the statement said. However, the announcement warned, anyone who refuses to surrender and continues the activities "will be punished severely," along with "those who wink at or shield such activities." It called on Beijing citizens to inform on anyone suspected of the "six evils," saying the government would "speak highly of them and give them awards" for aiding in the capture of suspects. "The six evils severely poison the general social mood, disturb public order and endanger the construction of cultural civilization, and must be firmly checked, forbidden and banned," the statement said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. China Considers Passport Fee As Way To Stop 'Brain Drain' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wang@pennmess.physics.upenn.edu ( Huangxin Wang) Source: The Chronical of Higher Education, A49, 11/29, 1989 [by Louise Branson] Imposition of a passport fee that would all but eliminate the opportunity for privately financed university students to go abroad is under consideration by Chinese authorities, according to usually well-informed university source here. Details of the new requirement, which reportedly would take effect in February, could not be officially confirmed. But the university sources said Chinese students seeking to use private funds, including scholarships from American universities, to finance their education abroad could face passport fees as much as 20,000 Chinese yuan, or nearly $5,400 -- a prohibitive sum in a country where wages typically come to about 1,200 yuan a year. Rumors about official plans to halt China's "Brain drain" to the West have sent thousands of young people scrambling to Western embassies in a desperate effort to obtain visas before the new regulations go into effect. Several Chinese students said another barrier to overseas study had appeared at colleges and universities here as campus registrars refused to honor requests for official copies of transcripts, which students need for admission to foreign institutions. A spokesman for China's State Education Commission said he could neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of those reports. Meanwhile, the rumor mill here has been generating concern that the authorities plan to put captured leaders of last spring's "counter- revolutionary rebellion," including the student leader Wang Dan, on trial. "Politically Mature" -------------------- The indications that passport fees may be imposed on privately financed students were the latest in a series of developments that pointed to a major attempt by the authorities to choke off the flow of young Chinese out of the country. One pending regulation would require students to work in China for up to seven years after graduation before they could travel abroad. Another rule, already in effect, fires those interested in taking English-Language profi- ciency test required by many foreign institutions to obtain written permission in advance from their college departments, work units, or neighborhood committees. Prime Minister Li Peng said recently that China should send only 'politically mature' scholars and researcher abroad. In the background is a strong new anti-intellectual climate in China. Last week the newspaper Guangming Daily, which is widely read by intellectuals, published a letter arguing that university students should do manual labor to learn traditional Communist values. "If people trained at universities neglect manual labor and look down on workers and peasants, seeking only pleasure, can they become part of the working class?" the letter asked. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. First Election With Legal Opposition Parties In Taiwan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> SOURCE: TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) December 01, 1989 [BY: HUANG, ANNIE ; Associated Press Writer] Tens of thousands of police guarded polling stations Saturday as voters cast ballots in Taiwan's first election with legal opposition parties. There were long lines of voters at polling booths and state radio predicted a heavy turnout. Results were not expected until sometime Sunday. ............. Many Taiwanese remain skeptical of the movement because of Communist China's threat to invade the island if it declares independence. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. China Faces Increasing Isolation --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> SOURCE: BEIJING (UPI) December 01, 1989 [BY: SCHWEISBERG, DAVID R.] Troubled by the changes sweeping Eastern Europe, China's leaders are eyeing the superpower summit with suspicion and have recently expressed sharp private criticism of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Chinese and foreign sources say. The meeting between President Bush and Gorbachev comes as China faces increasing isolation, its relations with the West damaged by its own crackdown on dissent and its ties with Europe's communist nations confused by their refusal to do the same. Foreign diplomats in Beijing said Chinese leaders are deeply troubled by the liberalization in Eastern Europe, just six months after they ordered the violent suppression of China's pro-democracy movement and launched a rollback of political and economic reforms. Along with restricting coverage of Eastern Europe in its state press, China has shown its concern by increasingly careful contacts with the nations undergoing upheaval, East bloc diplomats said. Diplomatic and academic exchanges with China have slowed somewhat, they said. "It hasn't stopped, but they are being cautious," said a senior Eastern European diplomat. "They are afraid of infestation. And they are asking us how we could consider abandoning the leadership of the Communist Party." China has kept a tight public lip about the seagoing summit off Malta, saying only it "welcomes" the meeting. But Chinese leaders are clearly suspicious, Chinese and foreign sources said. "They are worried about the United States and the Soviet Union moving closer, maybe leaving them out," another East bloc diplomat said. According to diplomats and Chinese sources, hard-line Premier Li Peng and senior leader Deng Xiaoping have in recent weeks assailed Gorbachev in unreported talks with visiting foreign dignitaries. In one such discussion last month, Li called Gorbachev "weak" and "vacillating" for failing to crack down on protests in Europe and in the Soviet republics, a diplomat briefed on the meeting said. Deng has been less strident, but has privately characterized as potentially destabilizing the liberalization supported or tolerated by Gorbachev, Chinese and foreign sources said. Apparently hoping to stay in the superpower politics game, China is nonetheless maintaining the expansion of ties with the Soviet Union begun after the two nations normalized relations last year, diplomats said. Discussions are under way for a visit to Moscow by Premier Li, tentatively next April, East bloc diplomats said. It would be a reciprocal visit for Gorbachev's landmark trip to Beijing last May when he was hailed as a reformist by protesting Chinese students. But the rapid pace of change in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and even Bulgaria, including the prospect of multi-party politics, has overtaken China's ability to respond, Western diplomats said. The sources said Chinese leaders approved an internal document at a party meeting last month expressing "concern" over Eastern Europe. "The Foreign Ministry people seem scared to say anything when we talk to them," a Beijing-based Western diplomat said. Chinese academic experts, although generally refusing to grant press interviews, appear somewhat less anxious. "Those we talked to said they are not as concerned with Eastern Europe because the countries are small and communism was forced onto them, not in an indigenous uprising as in China or the Soviet Union," the diplomat said. "They're watching the Soviets." Chinese officials have in public largely shrugged off comment, saying the changes in Eastern European nations are internal affairs. Last month, Premier Li, in one of the few public reactions by a Chinese leader, warned, "China will not change its system just because of the changes taking place in Eastern Europe." Senior Chinese officials are reading detailed accounts on Eastern Europe in internal reference documents, Chinese sources said. But coverage has been limited in the general press and even in an internal newspaper, Reference News, available to many Chinese. State-run media have sharply played down the drama of mass rallies and the opening of the Berlin Wall, instead focusing on Eastern European leaders' calls for maintaining socialism. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat Dec 2 18:36:44 EST 1989