chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (10/30/89)
| +---------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) -- Oct. 30 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) A Chinese officer was caught in US when stealing ........................ 53 2) Student Underground Formed in Beijing ................................... 25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A Chinese officer was caught in US when stealing -- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A videotape camera caught a Chinese military officer as he helped his wife shoplift a coat from a department store and took a Perry Mason detective game for himself, but charges against the couple were dropped. Details of the Sept. 6 thefts were released by order of an appeals court to the Dayton Daily News, which published an account of the episode Saturday but did not include the couple's names. The Charges against the officer and his wife were dismissed Sept. 15 by Municipal Court Judge Larry Moore at the request of Jay Newberry, the prosecutor in the Dayton suburb of Kettering. The next day Moore ordered the police files sealed. S. Richard Richman, the couple's lawyer, said the man, a liaison officer for the Chinese Air Force working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, would suffer public shame and possibly lose military status and go to jail in China if the names were disclosed. The newspaper obtained permission from the state's 2nd District Court of Appeals to have the records opened. According to the police report, the Chinese officer met his wife in a Value City Department Store in Kettering and helped her "roll up one of the coats and stick it down the front of her pants." He then took a $6.99 Perry Mason game he'd picked up in the store's toy department "and stuck it down the back of his pants." He and his wife then left the store. Earlier the same morning, the report said, a Hill's Department Store security guard, Steve Long, saw the couple attempting to steal items of clothing from his store. Long "observed (the wife) stuffing two dresses down the front of her pants. When she saw Steve Long looking (at) her she took the dresses out of her pants and met with her husband ... both subjects quickly left the store. After Kettering police arrested the couple, charged them each with petty theft and detained them on $2,000 cash bond, Air Force Col. Frank Tubbesing Jr. bailed them out of jail using his and his wife's credit cards. On Sept. 11, Tubbesing returned with $4,000 cash and asked that it be credited to the cards. Later, Capt. Matthew Durham, an Air Force spokesman at the Pentagon, said, "We understand Col. Tubbesing was subsequently reimbursed by the Chinese." Richman said last week there was no involvement in the case by the American government. "The U.S. government did not intervene, did not request any action," he said. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Student Underground Formed in Beijing The Washington Post via wing@cs.utexas.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEIJING---Despite arrests and police surveillance, Chinese students have succeeded in forming an underground organization aimed at keeping their democracy movement alive, students at several leading universities in Beijing said. Students said the activities of the organization are limited to exchanging information, countering government propaganda and keeping members aware of threats from the government. Students refer informally to the organization as the Beijing Autonomous Students Union Number Two, meaning that the organization is a modest revival of the outlawed student union that led pro-democracy protests. Students at several universities that took the lead in those protests---Beijing University, Beijing Normal University and People's University---are now active in the new organization. "Students are now treated as enemies," the activist said. The aim of the organization, he said, is "to keep students healthy and to fight Communist Party propaganda" while waiting for a chance to organize new protests. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu .