chengpi@ecf.toronto.edu (CHENG) (10/19/89)
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NEWS UTC ISSUE26 Oct.18, '89
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CONTENTS:
1. Brilliant Leader Jiang Zeming, as Said By the Party
2. Two letters:
About Press Freedom Herald
Club Invitation
3. Some stories About Wuer Ka Xi
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CCP tries to portray Jiang Zeming as a "brilliant leader"
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From: hongyuan@math.wayne.edu
[Source: Detroit Free Press, 10/13/89]
By Jim Abrams, Associated Press
Beijing--Following Deng Xiao-ping's desision to make Jiang Zemin his
succussor as China's leader, the Communist Party is working to portray the
technocrat as a brilliant leader and man of the masses.
Some Chinese and foreign observers compare the laurels being heaped on
Jiang to the treatment given Hua Guofeng after a dying Mao Tse-tung
purportedly told him in 1976:"With you in charge, I'm at ease.''
In a meeting with students who had returned from abroad, Jiang said it
was understandable that some Chinese students overseas were misled by the
Western press and engaged in pro-democracy protests. Those who correct their
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mistakes will be welcomed back, he said: "Men are not saints, so how can they
be free from faults?"
Yet when asked about the crackdown on the protesters, which followed
weeks of protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, he gave a sharply worded
recitation of the party's stance.
The military suppression of the student movement during which hundreds
were killed "was not a tragedy," Jiang said.
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2. Two Letters
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(1)
Dear Editor of News UTC:
UT is amoung only three or four universities which haven't
done the subscription work of Press Freedom Herald and I have asked
UT LYH people many times already. Song Qiang said no body at UT
would help in doing such things and he told me the only way might
work is to stop sending Press Freedom Herald for UT students.
Do you agree it's the only way?
Thank you for your attention.
George,
REMARK: Geoge is a student at YORK UNIVERSITY who wrote this letter
about one week ago. And we have checked the fact. NEWS UTC
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(2)
From: Murphy Edmund John <a458murp@zero.cdf.utoronto.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 89 11:14:24 EDT
Dear Sir/Madam,
Could you please post this notice in the UT.Chinese news digest. I
am not sure how to do it myself.
Thanks.
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Mandarian and Taiwanese Social Organization - MATSO
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Ni Hao! I would like to inform readers of a new club on the UT campus, called
the MAndarian and Taiwanese Social Organization (MATSO). Our club is new,
having been formed just last May, but we already have 160 members! Our
club holds social events, and puts on seminars about Chinese culture. Anyone
can join - membership is just $6.00 per year. Some of the events we put on
this summer include a trip to Center Island, a trip to see the American
League East Baseball Champions, the Blue Jays (in the new dome), a seminar
on Chinese tradition medicine, and many more events. A big part of our
club is the Language Exchange program we put on every Saturday from 5:00
to 7:00 p.m. at the International Student Center of UT (33 St, George St.).
During the Language Exchange, a person who is learning Mandarian is paired
off with a person who wants to improve his/her English. Both people help
each other with there respective languages.
Our club has members from Taiwan, The P.R.C., Hong Kong, and Canadians
who are learning Mandarian or are just interested in China. Please note
our club is not in any way political, and we do not advocate any political
position.
If you are interested in joining our club, you can come to our language
exchange program, or you can call our President, Nancy Fu, at 360-3792
(you can also talk to her sister, Susan, at the same number). Hope to see
you soon!
Ed Murphy
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3.Story about Wuer Kaxi
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Article 7042 of soc.culture.china:
Path: ecf!me!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ecs.umass.edu!GHUANG
From: GHUANG@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: True Stories about Uerkesh
Message-ID: <8910171738.AA08432@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 89 20:08:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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Below are several stories about Uerkesh (or Wu'er Kaixi). I take the full
responsibilities for everything
1. He has 2 suites and each costed $2,000. One early report said they were as
nice as the British Prince's.
2. He rents an apt. in Boston which is nicer and more expensive than many
very rich Harvard students'.
3. When one school tried to invite him to give a talk through someone in a
Boston "center", a "suggestion" of $5,000 honorarium was made. Later, when
that school finally reached his personal Chinese secretary (he has two, another
is English), an "advice" of $2,500 honorarium was given for the average level.
I don't mean he himselve doesn't know these arrangements.
Reasons for me to tell these:
1. THEY ARE THE TRUTH.
2. Better to release earlier than "people's Daily" will say any bullshit
about it.
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