chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (11/14/89)
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People's Daily Failed To Give Accurate Accounts Of East Germany's Events ......................................... 38 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) According to source from Beijing, during the 'Porn Purging Campaign', there are 30 millions 'porn' books and magazines, 400,000 tapes, and 300 places been banned. About 1,800 peoples are jailed. In some colleges, this campaign has gone as far as to require all students to turn in 2 'porn' books. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: Xin Hua News Agency, 11/12/89] (2) The forest fire in DaXinganling in northeastern China in 1987 has now been assessed an an ecological disater. The 20-day fire burned out 1.3 million hectares in China's largest natural forest zone. A recent report by the Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology said that the areas which suffered the most serious damage have lost the ability to regenerate naturally. The loss of potential resources is far greater than the loss of the existing timber stands. In addition, animal and bird life has been reduced. Natural and human-assisted regeneration will take five to eight years. [From: YAOM@ASUCP1.BITNET (M. H. Yao)] [Source: China Reconstructs] (3) More than 10,000 firms in Guangdong province will be cancelled, the vice-governor of Guangdong said. According to Hong Kong's 'Da Gung Bao', there are about 43,000 firms in Guangdong and one third of them will be cancelled. In principle, all kinds of trading firms established after 1986 will be cancelled. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Journal, 11/13/89] (4) BEIJING -- China's leading newspaper today took the unusual step of admitting that "some comrades" in the Communist Party oppose the government's economic austerity program, signaling that major leadership conferences this week apparently have failed to resolve disputes between Beijing and the provinces. [From: IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET (J. Ding)] [Source: The Washington Post, 11/12/89] (5) BEIJING - The way the official press puts it, China's new heroes are Simple folks with simple ideas and one unselfish ambition: to serve the communist state. They live in mud huts and shacks, reject profit incentives, frown on foreign notions and would never compromise their Maoist-Marxism for a piece of silver. They are the icons of a new era, elevated overnight by a regime that wants to return to the 1950s and 1960s, when posters showed apple-cheeked young women and manly mechanics saluting the flag. Heroes are made and unmade in China with astonishing speed. In the months since the June crackdown in Tianamen Square, 2,793 of them have been discovered and honored with the title "Model Workers." [From: IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET (J. Ding)] [Source: Chicago Tribune, 11/12/89] (6) HONGKONG -- More than 2,680 people signed a petition yesterday calling for the release of two mainland political dissidents, Wang Dan and Wang Ruowang, who were arrested for their involvement in the Beijing student movement. The signature campaign was organised by the May Fourth Movement outside Mongkok MTR station. The petition will be sent to Amnesty International Writers' Association, with letters appealing for help. The group says that Wang Dan, who was arrested in June, will be executed soon. The group will hold another signature campaign for the two dissidents on Thursday at the Hongkong Polytechnic. [From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net (Chan Ki Wa)] [Source: South China Morning Post, 11/13/89] (7) Lech Walesa, the leader of Polish Solidarity, will visit Hamilton tomorrow after his visiting Toronto. He will receive an honorary Doctor degree of Laws from McMaster University, Canada, maybe, his first honorary degree from west. There will be a ceremony of the conferring of the degree. Then, Lech Walesa will give a talk and meet people. More than 20 Chinese students and scholars will attend the ceremony and some of them may discuss with Lech Walesa about the historic change in eastern bloc and the situation in China. [From: SONGWN%McMaster.CA@uccvm.nyu.edu] (8) EAST GERMANY -- More than 1 million East Germans leave for West Germany and revelers jam West Berlin a day after Communist authorities began tearing down sections of the Berlin Wall. East Germany says it handed out 2.7 million exit visas since travel restrictions ended Thursday. East Germany has a population of 16.7 Million. But in a telephone conversation with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, East German leader Egon Krenz rules out any possibility of reunification. [From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu] [Source: Associated Press, 11/12/89] (9) BULGARIA -- Reformists call on the new government of Petar Mladenov to drop a constitutional guarantee that gives the Communist Party the leading role in the government. A leader of one reform group also says Todor Zhivkov, who stepped down Friday after 35 years as party chief, should be punished for "serious mistakes." [From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu] [Source: Associated Press, 11/12/89] (10) POLAND -- Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, in a nationwide television address, says Poles have a chance to rebuild the country's devastated economy under his 2-month-old government led by non-communists - the first such administration in the Soviet bloc. The address comes on a holiday marking 71 years since the 1918 creation of a capitalist republic in Poland after 123 years of division among Russians, Germans and Austrians. [From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu] [Source: Associated Press, 11/12/89] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Deng Calls Millitary to Support Ziang Zeming ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net (Chan Ki Wa) [Source: South China Morning Post, 11/13/89] By Willy Wo-Lap Lam Chinese patriarch Deng Xiaoping has called on the top brass to support Communist Party General-Secretary Jiang Zemin as the new chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC). He has also admonished the army to remain faithful to the instructions of the party leadership. Mr Deng, who resigned from his last remaining party post of CMC chief at the fifth party plenum last Thursday, met senior officers who participated in an enlarged meeting of the CMC yesterday morning. Mr Deng also hinted that he would remain active in party and military affairs and be around to give advice and support to his hand-picked successor, who became party General-Secretary only last June. "Though I have left the army and retired as well, I will still concern myself with the cause of our party and state as well as the future of our army," Mr Deng said. Apparently referring to the Communist Party tradition of "the gun obeying the party," Mr Deng admonished the top brass to follow strictly the orders of the party Central Committee. "Our army is an army of the party, the socialist state, and the people, which should always remain loyal to the party, the state, socialism and the people," Mr Deng said. Analysts say that while past party chiefs, including Chairman Mao Tsetung, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang, had occupied senior posts on the CMC, Mr Jiang is the only head of both the party and the military who has no military experience. That Mr Deng wants to ensure that the military defers to the wishes of the party is also evident from the fact that senior leaders of the party and Government were also on hand during his meeting with participants of the enlarged CMC conclave. They included Li Peng, Qiao Shi, Yao Yilin, Song Ping, and Li Ruihuan, all members of the Politburo Standing Committee, as well as National People's Congress chairman Wan Li and state vice-president Wang Zhen. All CMC members, including chairman Jiang and first vice-chairman Yang Shangkun, were present. During the meeting, Mr Deng also urged the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to make contributions to "the country's socialist construction" and reform policies initiated since late 1978 "under the leadership of the party Central Committee, with Jiang Zemin as the nucleus". In recent years many PLA officers have complained that, as a result of the reform program, the army's share of the budget has consistently been slashed, and that the influence of the military in national policy-making has been drastically cut. The NCNA reported that CMC participants were "moved and encouraged" by Mr Deng's words, and that they "vowed to follow Deng Xiaoping's demands". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. PLA Chief Of General Of Staff Denied Mutiny During Crackdown ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net (Chan Ki Wa) [Source: South China Morning Post, 11/13/89] In a rare interview yesterday, General Chi Haotian, CMC member and Chief of the General Staff of the PLA, also made a bid to promote unity in the army. Talking to the official China News Service, Mr Chi denied speculations that individual PLA units displayed reluctance in going to Beijing to put down the "counter-revolutionary rebellion" - or that different units had opened fire on each other. Referring to the June events, Mr Chi said that "from beginning to end all commanding officers of the army maintained a high sense of unity with chairman Deng Xiaoping and the CMC that he led. In his CNS interview, General Chi also characterised as "absolute nonsense" reports that various military units of the Martial Law Command fought each other or that there were cases of mutiny. In late May there were reports that senior military officers, including Defence Minister Qin Jiwei and CMC deputy secretary-general Hong XueZhi, wrote a petition to Mr Deng expressing their reservations about using military force to crush the student movement. At last week's CMC reshuffle Mr Hong was demoted to an ordinary member, while Mr Qin failed to be promoted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Li Peng Will Visit Three South Asian Countries ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net (Chan Ki Wa) [Source: South China Morning Post, 11/13/89] By Willy Wo-Lap Lam Beijing hopes that the visit by Prime Minister Li Peng to three South Asian countries beginning tomorrow will help break the diplomatic isolation China has suffered since the June 4 crackdown. Mr Li's week-long official visit to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal is his first overseas trip since the pro-democracy uprising. The visit is also aimed to show the West that despite economic sanctions, Beijing still has friends in the Third World, including countries which have adopted a Western-styled democratic system. Defence analysts say that given the fact that China is strapped for foreign currency, Beijing is willing to sell more arms to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Analysts say that the trip will help boost Mr Li's political fortune in China as well as his image overseas. As a sign of the importance that Beijing has attached to the trip, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Mr Li will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Zheng Tuobin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. People's Daily Failed To Give Accurate Accounts Of East Germany's Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET (J. Ding) [Source: Associated Press, 11/11/89] By Terril Jones BEIJING -- Mindful that millions of Chinese protested for democratic reform only five months ago, the Chinese media have been careful in reporting the dramatic political changes in East Germany. The media have reported some of the developments in East Germany without suggesting the reasons behind them. They have not reported on the mass exodus of East Germans to the West, nor on crowds chipping away at the Berlin Wall with hand tools. The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, today gave a dry account of how East Germany had opened its borders to the West. The paper noted that U.S. Secretary of State James Baker hailed the East German move as a "very positive change." But it also quoted West Germany's interior minister as urging people to "think hard about coming over because for a long time their living conditions will be worse than what they have now." While Western leaders assert that leadership upheavals in East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria indicate the failure of communism, the Chinese reports depict communism as still commanding the faith of the people. "Krenz re-elected after Politburo resigns" said a headline Thursday in the official China Daily. The article pointed out that new East German leader Egon Krenz and seven Politburo members were retained in the new lineup. Newspapers have not mentioned the internal political pressures that led to the resignation of former East German leader Erich Honecker. The only mention of East Germany in Monday's People's Daily was a report of three "ruffians" who were sentenced to two to four years in prison for "destroying public facilities and illegally disturbing social order during a march on the evening of Oct. 3." The paper did not mention that hundreds of thousands of East Germans had been holding marches for weeks, demanding democratic reforms and permission to leave the country freely. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Deming Tang E_mail: Tang@ALISUVAX.bitnet | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- send out time: Mon Nov 13 23:42:27 EST 1989 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ..:, `` .,; `` :: .,; :: .; ..ii..;; `` ..ii..ii.;; `` .: ;; ; :; ;; , .: .....,, ' : ;, , .: \ ; '' +.......++ ..' : .;\. ''' .., .; ..; `\\:. . !v